Photo: Pymouss · CC BY-SA 4.0A newly built town: 51% of the homes in Saint-Amable date from 2001 or later (Quebec’s towns: 21%)
Census values for 2021: a median of $348,000 and an average of $348,800. Census values are owners’ own estimates, taken in May 2021, before the rise in interest rates. Statistics Canada doesn’t publish sales in Quebec, so nothing here says what Saint-Amable’s homes actually sold for. Single-family homes are on the 2025 roll at a median $461,900; the roll values them as of July 1, 2023.
What Saint-Amable’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
- $349K
- Owners
- 4,050
- 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).
Built in 1999: the median house in Saint-Amable, where Quebec’s towns sit at 1981
The roll puts Saint-Amable’s dwellings at 62% in single-family houses, 19% in plexes, 10% in condos and 6% in buildings of six units or more.
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-Amable’s homes break down, by age and kind
5,105 occupied homes stood in Saint-Amable in 2021, and single-detached houses made up 56% of them.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Saint-Amable | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 13% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 3% | 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.
Saint-Amable permitted 15.2 new homes a year per 1,000, close to the 15.1 of Quebec’s towns
Over 2018–2023, 468 homes were permitted in Saint-Amable, close to 78 each year. Single-unit buildings took 40%, the rest buildings of two or more, against 39% for Quebec’s towns. Saint-Amable doesn’t get its own monthly permits figures; the ones here come from the Montréal metro area.
A peak in 2021: 119 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Up 19%: 31,370 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.
Saint-Amable against Quebec’s towns: 16% over the $300,000 median
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.
Saint-Amable’s neighbours by home value
The places around Saint-Amable at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Amable | $348K | $349K | 80% | |
| Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil | $500K | $527K | 85% | 6.6 |
| Sainte-Julie | $400K | $435K | 80% | 7 |
| Saint-Marc-sur-Richelieu | $420K | $479K | 86% | 8.4 |
| Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu | $400K | $463K | 87% | 8.7 |
| Beloeil | $388K | $408K | 72% | 10.2 |
| Varennes | $400K | $421K | 79% | 10.5 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Saint-Amable
How many households in Saint-Amable are in core housing need?
In line with Quebec’s towns (3%): 4% in Saint-Amable, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.
Is Saint-Amable expensive for Quebec?
Dearer than the middle: Quebec’s towns come to $300,000, Saint-Amable to more.
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).