Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0A median $276,000: what owners say homes in Vieux-Bourg are worth
The census of 2021 asked 3,815 owner households what their home was worth. A census value is an owner’s guess at a selling price in May 2021, and prices have moved since. No sales are published for towns in Quebec, Vieux-Bourg included, so owners’ values are the measure. The town’s assessors, on the 2025 roll, put the median house at $365,000 (market of July 1, 2023). Vieux-Bourg shares its property-roll values and building permits numbers with the rest of the city of Québec.
Vieux-Bourg’s homes, by two sources
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
- $288K
- Owners
- 3,815
- 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).
17% of Québec’s dwellings are in plexes, where Quebec’s towns have 16%
On Québec’s roll, the dwellings sit 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.
Apartments are 48% of Vieux-Bourg’s homes, against 22% for Quebec’s towns
The 2021 census counted 7,250 occupied homes in Vieux-Bourg. 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
| Vieux-Bourg | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 12% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 6% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 1% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 4% | 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
Québec issued permits for 25,458 new homes from 2018 to 2023, or about 4,243 a year. Only 4% went into single-unit buildings, beside 39% for Quebec’s towns.
The busiest year: 2021, with 5,398 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Up 25%: 11,737 new homes in the year to August 2026
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. · Not measured by town: monthly permits (the Québec metro area)
Vieux-Bourg is cheaper than most of Quebec’s towns: 8% 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.
Cheaper next to Vieux-Bourg: Vieux-Moulin
The places around Vieux-Bourg at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vieux-Bourg | $276K | $288K | 52% | |
| Chutes-Montmorency | $280K | $295K | 50% | 2.3 |
| Vieux-Moulin | $240K | $265K | 38% | 2.5 |
| Saint-Michel | $280K | $300K | 83% | 2.6 |
| Maizerets | $300K | $296K | 20% | 4.1 |
| Sainte-Thérèse-de-Lisieux | $278K | $298K | 87% | 4.7 |
| Bourg-Royal | $300K | $305K | 72% | 5 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Vieux-Bourg
How many households in Vieux-Bourg are in core housing need?
4% of Vieux-Bourg’s households, near the 3% of Quebec’s towns, live in a home that is unaffordable, crowded or in poor repair and can’t afford a better one nearby.
Is Vieux-Bourg expensive for Quebec?
Cheaper than the middle: Quebec’s towns come to $300,000, Vieux-Bourg to less.
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).