Photo: Studio Livernois · Public domain96% of Saint-Roch’s homes are apartments, against 22% for Quebec’s towns
The 2021 census put the median home at $260,000, with an average of $277,096. Statistics Canada’s housing statistics carry no sale prices in Quebec; the census value stands in for Saint-Roch. On the 2025 property roll, single-family homes have a median of $365,000, valued as of July 1, 2023. For property-roll values and building permits, the only official count covers all of the city of Québec, Saint-Roch included.
Saint-Roch’s homes, by two sources
Each source sits beside its own median for Quebec’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. Owners gave those values at the May 2021 census; they are estimates, and older than today’s prices.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $277K
- Owners
- 1,250
- 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
Dwellings on the roll of Québec: 37% in buildings of six units or more, 34% in single-family houses, 17% in plexes and 11% in condos. Chalets add 272 more entries, valued 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.
25% of Saint-Roch’s homes are condos, where Quebec’s towns have 8%
The 2021 census counted 5,310 occupied homes in Saint-Roch. At least half predate 1981. A neighbourhood’s counts are summed from small census areas, so its parts can fall a little short of the whole.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Saint-Roch | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 25% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 7% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 9% | 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.
Building at the pace of Quebec’s towns: 16.4 new homes a year per 1,000 in Québec, against 15.1
Over 2018–2023, 25,458 homes were permitted in Québec, close to 4,243 each year. Only 4% went into single-unit buildings, beside 39% for Quebec’s towns. Saint-Roch shares its monthly permits numbers with the rest of the Québec metro area.
Most 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
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-Roch is cheaper than most of Quebec’s towns: 13% under their $300,000 median
The census values of Quebec’s towns, 510 of them with 2,500+ people, from dearest to cheapest.
Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.
Saint-Roch’s neighbours by home value
The places around Saint-Roch at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Roch | $260K | $277K | 24% | |
| Saint-Jean-Baptiste | $348K | $387K | 26% | 1 |
| Saint-Sauveur | $280K | $295K | 23% | 1.1 |
| Vieux-Limoilou | $260K | $303K | 24% | 1.4 |
| Montcalm | $400K | $427K | 41% | 1.5 |
| Vieux-Québec—Cap-Blanc—Colline parlementaire | $400K | $448K | 33% | 1.6 |
| Vanier | $280K | $276K | 27% | 2.2 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Saint-Roch
How many households in Saint-Roch are in core housing need?
Above the norm for Quebec’s towns (3%): 9% in Saint-Roch, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.
Is Saint-Roch expensive for Quebec?
No: Saint-Roch’s census median is below the $300,000 of Quebec’s towns.
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).