Photo: Félix Mathieu-Bégin · CC BY-SA 4.0Owners in Saint-Bernard value their homes 23% below the median of Quebec’s towns
Owners valued the median home at $230,000 in 2021, where the median of Quebec’s towns was $300,000. Statistics Canada’s housing statistics carry no sale prices in Quebec; the census value stands in for Saint-Bernard. Single-family homes are on the 2026 roll at a median $276,600; the roll values them as of July 1, 2024.
Two ways to price a home in Saint-Bernard
Every figure here is compared within the province, against Quebec’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms. Self-assessed in May 2021, these values predate the rate rises that followed.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $244K
- Owners
- 710
- 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-Bernard at $280,100, 32% less than across Quebec’s towns
Dwellings on the roll of Saint-Bernard: 80% in single-family houses, 9% in plexes and 5% in buildings of six units or more. It lists 55 chalets as well, at $127,700 in the middle.
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.
How Saint-Bernard’s homes break down, by age and kind
Saint-Bernard had 975 occupied homes at the 2021 census, 82% of them 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-Bernard | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 3% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 2% | 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-Bernard permitted 21.3 new homes a year per 1,000, above the 15.1 of Quebec’s towns
Over 2018–2023, 123 homes were permitted in Saint-Bernard, close to 21 each year. Single-unit buildings took 40%, the rest buildings of two or more, against 39% for Quebec’s towns.
A peak in 2021: 53 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-Bernard against Quebec’s towns: 23% under 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.
Lower values near Saint-Bernard: Saint-Narcisse-de-Beaurivage and Saint-Patrice-de-Beaurivage
Next to Saint-Bernard: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Bernard | $230K | $244K | 79% | |
| Scott | $250K | $270K | 80% | 4.6 |
| Saint-Narcisse-de-Beaurivage | $200K | $214K | 78% | 7.4 |
| Saint-Isidore | $246K | $249K | 81% | 8.6 |
| Sainte-Marie | $240K | $259K | 71% | 10.6 |
| Saint-Lambert-de-Lauzon | $280K | $293K | 88% | 10.7 |
| Saint-Patrice-de-Beaurivage | $186K | $209K | 76% | 11.3 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Saint-Bernard
How many households in Saint-Bernard are in core housing need?
About as many as elsewhere: 2% of households in Saint-Bernard, where Quebec’s towns sit at 3%.
Is Saint-Bernard expensive for Quebec?
No: Saint-Bernard’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).