Photo: Normand Lemieux · CC BY-SA 4.0A median $250,000: what owners say homes in Saint-Claude are worth
415 owner households answered the census question on value in 2021. What owners reported in May 2021 is an opinion of value; interest rates and prices have both moved since. No open sale prices are published in Quebec, so for Saint-Claude the census value is the measure. For property tax, the 2024 roll sets the median single-family home at $344,100, on July 1, 2022 market values.
Saint-Claude’s homes, by two sources
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
- $284K
- Owners
- 415
- Quebec’s towns
- $300K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
single-family, market at July 1, 2022
- 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-Claude, plexes are on the roll at a median $315,200, 24% below Quebec’s towns
By kind of building, Saint-Claude’s dwellings on the roll split 79% in single-family houses and 7% in plexes. The roll also counts 64 chalets, at a median $294,250.
Median roll value by kind, 2024 the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Dwellings by kind of building
Rôle d’évaluation foncière 2024 (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: 92% of the homes in Saint-Claude stand alone (Quebec’s towns: 59%)
People lived in 495 homes in Saint-Claude 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-Claude | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 3% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 4% | 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.
Saint-Claude permitted 13.7 new homes a year per 1,000, close to the 15.1 of Quebec’s towns
Over 2018–2023, 39 homes were permitted in Saint-Claude, close to 7 each year. 74% were single-unit buildings, beside 39% for Quebec’s towns.
The busiest year: 2021, with 9 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-Claude against Quebec’s towns: 17% under the $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-Claude: Windsor, Saint-Georges-de-Windsor and Cleveland
Next to Saint-Claude: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Claude | $250K | $284K | 89% | |
| Val-Joli | $250K | $264K | 87% | 3.1 |
| Windsor | $200K | $210K | 60% | 7.2 |
| Saint-Georges-de-Windsor | $200K | $236K | 89% | 11.8 |
| Saint-François-Xavier-de-Brompton | $250K | $271K | 76% | 12.1 |
| Stoke | $300K | $313K | 87% | 15.8 |
| Cleveland | $200K | $278K | 86% | 17.6 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Saint-Claude
How many households in Saint-Claude are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts under 1% of Saint-Claude’s households in core housing need, a smaller share than the 3% of Quebec’s towns.
Is Saint-Claude expensive for Quebec?
Below the norm for Quebec’s towns, whose median home is worth $300,000; Saint-Claude’s is worth less.
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).