Photo: Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0Saint-Anselme builds fast: 33.6 new homes a year per 1,000, against 15.1 for Quebec’s towns
In May 2021 the median owned home was worth $224,000 by its owner’s reckoning, the average one $226,400. What homes sold for in Saint-Anselme isn’t public: no sale figures are released in Quebec. Single-family homes are on the 2026 roll at a median $303,600; the roll values them as of July 1, 2024.
Two ways to price a home in Saint-Anselme
Each source sits beside its own median for Quebec’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. Treat the values as owners’ May 2021 guesses: they are self-reported, and they come from before rates went up.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $226K
- Owners
- 1,190
- 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).
In Saint-Anselme, plexes are on the roll at a median $318,000, 23% below Quebec’s towns
Saint-Anselme’s roll counts its dwellings 65% in single-family houses, 19% in buildings of six units or more, 15% in plexes and 1% in condos.
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.
The homes of Saint-Anselme, by period and type
Of the 1,695 homes people lived in across Saint-Anselme at the 2021 census, 67% were single-detached houses. At least half predate 2001.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Saint-Anselme | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 6% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 2% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 3% | 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.
Saint-Anselme’s busiest year for permits was 2023, with 90 new homes
From 2018 to 2023, permits in Saint-Anselme created 306 homes, about 51 a year. Single-unit buildings took 25%, the rest buildings of two or more, against 39% for Quebec’s towns.
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
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-Anselme is cheaper than most of Quebec’s towns: 25% 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-Anselme: Sainte-Hénédine, Sainte-Claire and Saint-Lazare-de-Bellechasse
The places around Saint-Anselme at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Anselme | $224K | $226K | 73% | |
| Sainte-Hénédine | $200K | $225K | 84% | 7.4 |
| Sainte-Claire | $200K | $211K | 71% | 8.6 |
| Saint-Henri | $278K | $293K | 74% | 10.7 |
| Saint-Gervais | $224K | $227K | 74% | 11.2 |
| Saint-Isidore | $246K | $249K | 81% | 11.9 |
| Saint-Lazare-de-Bellechasse | $200K | $191K | 74% | 12.9 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Saint-Anselme
How many households in Saint-Anselme are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 1% of Saint-Anselme’s households in core housing need, a smaller share than the 3% of Quebec’s towns.
Is Saint-Anselme expensive for Quebec?
No: Saint-Anselme’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).