Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0The middle home in Saint-Michel is valued at $280,000
Behind it are the answers of 5,990 owners at the 2021 census. What homes sold for in Saint-Michel isn’t public: no sale figures are released in Quebec. For property tax, the 2025 roll sets the median single-family home at $365,000, on July 1, 2023 market values. Saint-Michel doesn’t get its own property-roll values and building permits figures; the ones here come from the city of Québec.
What Saint-Michel’s homes are worth, two ways
Every figure here is compared within the province, against Quebec’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms. Self-assessed in May 2021, these values predate the rate rises that followed.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $300K
- Owners
- 5,990
- Quebec’s towns
- $300K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
single-family, market at July 1, 2023
- Quebec’s towns
- $353K
Census 2021 (Statistics Canada); Canadian Housing Statistics Program, tables 46-10-0099 and 46-10-0093; Québec rôle d’évaluation foncière 2026 (MAMH).
Plexes hold 17% of Québec’s dwellings, against 16% for Quebec’s towns
The roll puts Québec’s dwellings at 37% in buildings of six units or more, 34% in single-family houses, 17% in plexes and 11% in condos. The roll also counts 272 chalets, at a median $144,000.
Median roll value by kind, 2025 the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Dwellings by kind of building
Rôle d’évaluation foncière 2025 (MAMH): a kind’s median needs 10 units or more; plexes are valued per building; each municipality’s roll has its own market date. The ticks are the median of Québec’s municipalities with their own roll.
How Saint-Michel’s homes break down, by age and kind
Saint-Michel had 7,210 occupied homes at the 2021 census, 61% of them single-detached houses. Half went up before 2001. Neighbourhood figures add up small census areas, and rounding can leave the parts a little under the total.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Saint-Michel | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 16% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 2% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 1% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | under 1% | 3% | 7% |
Census 2021 (Statistics Canada): occupied private dwellings; core housing need as Statistics Canada defines it. Ticks and columns are medians of the towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more.
Permits in Québec ran at 16.4 homes a year per 1,000, near the 15.1 of Quebec’s towns
From 2018 to 2023, permits in Québec created 25,458 homes, about 4,243 a year. Multi-unit buildings took most: single-unit ones were just 4%, where Quebec’s towns built 39%.
A peak in 2021: 5,398 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
11,737 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, up 25% on the year before
Area-wide: monthly permits, counted over the Québec metro area
Statistics Canada, tables 46-10-0087 (building permits by census subdivision, 2018–2023: dwelling units created, new construction and conversions) and 34-10-0292 (monthly, metro areas). Per 1,000: units a year over 2019–2023 against occupied homes in 2021.
Saint-Michel sits close to the $300,000 median of Quebec’s towns
510 of Quebec’s towns (2,500 people or more), by median value at the 2021 census, dearest first.
Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.
Lower values near Saint-Michel: Vieux-Moulin
The places around Saint-Michel at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Michel | $280K | $300K | 83% | |
| Sainte-Thérèse-de-Lisieux | $278K | $298K | 87% | 2.2 |
| Vieux-Bourg | $276K | $288K | 52% | 2.6 |
| Chutes-Montmorency | $280K | $295K | 50% | 3.1 |
| Vieux-Moulin | $240K | $265K | 38% | 3.5 |
| Bourg-Royal | $300K | $305K | 72% | 3.5 |
| Boischatel | $352K | $395K | 90% | 4.8 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Saint-Michel
How many households in Saint-Michel are in core housing need?
In Saint-Michel, under 1% of households are in core housing need, against 3% for Quebec’s towns: those whose home costs too much, is too small or needs major repairs, with nothing suitable nearby under 30% of their income.
Is Saint-Michel expensive for Quebec?
Saint-Michel is close to the norm for Quebec’s towns, whose median home is worth $300,000.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Census of Population 2021 · Statistics Canada, building permits (tables 46-10-0087 and 34-10-0292) · Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l’Habitation, rôle d’évaluation foncière 2026. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).