Photo: Richard Coté · CC BY-SA 4.0Owners in Saint-Benoît-Labre value their homes 42% below the median of Quebec’s towns
The census median was $174,000 in 2021, against $300,000 for Quebec’s towns. These home values were given by owners themselves, in a census taken in May 2021. No sales are published for towns in Quebec, Saint-Benoît-Labre included, so owners’ values are the measure. Québec’s 2026 property roll puts single-family homes at a median $239,450, at market values of July 1, 2024.
What Saint-Benoît-Labre’s homes are worth, two ways
Each source sits beside its own median for Quebec’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $197K
- Owners
- 555
- 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 roll values plexes in Saint-Benoît-Labre at $258,450, 37% less than across Quebec’s towns
Saint-Benoît-Labre’s roll counts its dwellings 72% in single-family houses, 14% in plexes and 3% in buildings of six units or more. The roll also counts 88 chalets, at a median $235,200.
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.
Single-detached houses are 87% of Saint-Benoît-Labre’s homes, against 59% for Quebec’s towns
People lived in 710 homes in Saint-Benoît-Labre at the 2021 census. The older half dates from before 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Saint-Benoît-Labre | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 2% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 6% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | under 1% | 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.
Permits in Saint-Benoît-Labre ran at 20.8 homes a year per 1,000, where Quebec’s towns ran at 15.1
Some 14 homes a year: 82 in all were permitted in Saint-Benoît-Labre from 2018 to 2023. About 20% went into single-unit buildings, where Quebec’s towns built 39%.
The busiest year: 2022, with 35 new homes
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-Benoît-Labre is cheaper than most of Quebec’s towns: 42% under their $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.
Lower values near Saint-Benoît-Labre: Saint-Honoré-de-Shenley and Saint-Victor
The places around Saint-Benoît-Labre at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Benoît-Labre | $174K | $197K | 81% | |
| Saint-Georges | $200K | $218K | 62% | 10.2 |
| Saint-Honoré-de-Shenley | $150K | $161K | 84% | 11.2 |
| Saint-Victor | $150K | $187K | 85% | 13 |
| Saint-René | $200K | $222K | 93% | 13.4 |
| Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce | $170K | $172K | 77% | 13.5 |
| Notre-Dame-des-Pins | $200K | $221K | 71% | 13.8 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Saint-Benoît-Labre
How many households in Saint-Benoît-Labre are in core housing need?
under 1% of Saint-Benoît-Labre’s households, under 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 Saint-Benoît-Labre expensive for Quebec?
On census values, Saint-Benoît-Labre sits among the cheaper of Quebec’s towns (median $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).