Photo: Boréal · CC BY-SA 3.0The middle home in Val-Bélair is valued at $290,000
It is the middle of what 8,890 owner households told the 2021 census. Owners gave those values at the May 2021 census; they are estimates, and older than today’s prices. Statistics Canada’s housing statistics carry no sale prices in Quebec; the census value stands in for Val-Bélair. For property tax, the 2025 roll sets the median single-family home at $365,000, on July 1, 2023 market values. Val-Bélair shares its property-roll values and building permits numbers with the rest of the city of Québec.
What Val-Bélair’s homes are worth, two ways
Two sources, each set against Quebec’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $293K
- Owners
- 8,890
- 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).
A plex town: 17% of the dwellings in Québec sit in buildings of two to five units (Quebec’s towns: 16%)
Québec’s roll counts its dwellings 37% in buildings of six units or more, 34% in single-family houses, 17% in plexes and 11% in condos. There are 272 chalets on it too, with a median of $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.
36% of Val-Bélair’s homes are from 2001 or later, against 21% for Quebec’s towns
12,000 occupied homes stood in Val-Bélair in 2021, and single-detached houses made up 55% of them. Summed from small census areas, a neighbourhood’s parts may add up to a little less than its total.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Val-Bélair | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 13% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 3% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 1% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 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.
Québec permitted 16.4 new homes a year per 1,000, close to the 15.1 of Quebec’s towns
Over 2018–2023, 25,458 homes were permitted in Québec, close to 4,243 each year. Apartments and other multi-unit buildings dominate: only 4% were single-unit, against 39% for Quebec’s towns. For monthly permits, the only official count covers all of the Québec metro area, Val-Bélair included.
A peak in 2021: 5,398 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Rising: 11,737 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, 25% more
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.
Val-Bélair sits near the middle of Quebec’s towns ($300,000)
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 Val-Bélair: Lac-Saint-Charles
The places around Val-Bélair at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Val-Bélair | $290K | $293K | 74% | |
| Loretteville | $284K | $290K | 60% | 4.4 |
| Des Châtels | $280K | $301K | 71% | 4.6 |
| Wendake | – | – | 61% | 5.1 |
| Lac-Saint-Charles | $274K | $279K | 89% | 6.6 |
| Saint-Émile | $300K | $303K | 81% | 7.4 |
| L'Ancienne-Lorette | $300K | $327K | 72% | 7.6 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Val-Bélair
How many households in Val-Bélair are in core housing need?
In Val-Bélair, 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 Val-Bélair expensive for Quebec?
Val-Bélair 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).