Photo: Veillg1 · CC0Home values in Saint-Albert run 33% lower than the median of Quebec’s towns
Owners valued the median home at $200,000 in 2021, where the median of Quebec’s towns was $300,000. There is no public record of sale prices in Quebec, which leaves the census value as the guide for Saint-Albert. For property tax, the 2026 roll sets the median single-family home at $286,900, on July 1, 2024 market values.
Two ways to price a home in Saint-Albert
Two sources, each set against Quebec’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders. No sale stands behind these values: owners named them at the census of May 2021.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $226K
- Owners
- 540
- Quebec’s towns
- $300K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
single-family, market at July 1, 2024
- 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).
The median house in Saint-Albert was built in 1990, later than 1981 for Quebec’s towns
On Saint-Albert’s roll, the dwellings sit 83% in single-family houses, 13% in plexes and 1% in buildings of six units or more.
Median roll value by kind, 2026 the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Dwellings by kind of building
Rôle d’évaluation foncière 2026 (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.
A town of houses: 90% of the homes in Saint-Albert stand alone (Quebec’s towns: 59%)
At the 2021 census, Saint-Albert had 665 homes with someone living in them. At least half predate 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Saint-Albert | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 2% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 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.
Saint-Albert is cheaper than most of Quebec’s towns: 33% 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 Saint-Albert: Sainte-Clotilde-de-Horton
The places around Saint-Albert at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Albert | $200K | $226K | 84% | |
| Saint-Valère | $200K | $231K | 90% | 6.9 |
| Warwick | $200K | $222K | 67% | 8.9 |
| Victoriaville | $200K | $228K | 59% | 10.7 |
| Sainte-Clotilde-de-Horton | $180K | $181K | 90% | 11 |
| Saint-Christophe-d'Arthabaska | $266K | $303K | 92% | 11.7 |
| Tingwick | $200K | $261K | 84% | 16.6 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Saint-Albert
How many households in Saint-Albert are in core housing need?
Fewer than most: under 1% of households in Saint-Albert, where Quebec’s towns sit at 3%.
Is Saint-Albert expensive for Quebec?
On census values, Saint-Albert sits among the cheaper of Quebec’s towns (median $300,000).
Sources: Statistics Canada, Census of Population 2021 · 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).