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Property prices in Saint-Colomban · Census 2021 and Statistics Canada

Saint-Colomban’s housing is newer than most: 56% has gone up since 2001, against 21% for Quebec’s towns

In May 2021 the median owned home was worth $348,000 by its owner’s reckoning, the average one $378,000. What homes sold for in Saint-Colomban isn’t public: no sale figures are released in Quebec. The town’s assessors, on the 2025 roll, put the median house at $480,300 (market of July 1, 2023).

Median home value
$348K
owners’ estimate, census 2021
average $378K
Property roll value
$480K
single-family homes, roll 2025
market at July 1, 2023
New homes a year
132
permits, 2018–2023
20.4 per 1,000 homes
Owner households
5,775
census 2021
87% of households
What homes are worth

Saint-Colomban’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. Keep in mind these are owners’ estimates from the 2021 census, not recorded sales.

Census 2021$348K

median, owners’ estimate

Average
$378K
Owners
5,775
Quebec’s towns
$300K
The typical Canadian town
$406K
Property roll 2025$480K

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).

The roll by kind

Saint-Colomban’s houses are newer than most: the median dates from 2003 (Quebec’s towns: 1981)

By kind of building, Saint-Colomban’s dwellings on the roll split 79% in single-family houses and 18% in plexes. It lists 144 chalets as well, at $157,750 in the middle.

Value by kind

Median roll value by kind, 2025 the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns

Detached houses$483K
Semi-detached and row$302K
Plexes (2–5 units), a building$577K
Chalets$158K
Mobile homes$154K
Dwellings on the roll

Dwellings by kind of building

Single-family houses79%
Plexes18%
2003
year the median house was built (Quebec’s towns: 1981)
15%
of dwellings built since 2016
7,344
dwellings on the roll

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.

The homes

Saint-Colomban’s homes: when they went up and what they are

Saint-Colomban had 6,630 occupied homes at the 2021 census, 84% of them single-detached houses.

When they were built

Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns

Before 19615%
1961–198012%
1981–200028%
2001–201545%
2016–202111%
What kind of home

Homes by kind

Single-detached houses84%
Semi-detached houses3%
Row houses1%
Flats in a duplex11%
Apartments, under 5 storeys1%
Movable dwellings1%
Against the median town of the province and of Canada
Saint-ColombanQuebecCanada
Condominiums1%8%8%
Needing major repairs4%6%6%
Too small for the household3%2%3%
Households in core housing need3%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.

New homes

Saint-Colomban permitted 20.4 new homes a year per 1,000, above the 15.1 of Quebec’s towns

Building permits added 794 homes in Saint-Colomban between 2018 and 2023: some 132 a year. Single-unit buildings took 68% of them, where Quebec’s towns built 39%.

Permits by year, 2018–2023

A peak in 2021: 170 new homes

Single-unit buildingsTwo or more units
050100150200201820192020202120222023
The pace

New homes a year per 1,000 homes

Saint-Colomban20.4
Quebec’s towns15.1
The typical Canadian town13.8
$45M
of new residential construction a year, 2019–2023
The metro area

Up 19%: 31,370 new homes in the year to August 2026

010,00020,00030,00040,00020212022202320242025

Area-wide: monthly permits, counted over the Montréal metro area

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.

Across Quebec

Saint-Colomban is dearer than most of Quebec’s towns: 16% above their $300,000 median

510 of Quebec’s towns (2,500 people or more), by median value at the 2021 census, dearest first.

Median value, census 2021

Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.

Lower values near Saint-Colomban: Saint-Jérôme, Gore and Mille-Isles

Next to Saint-Colomban: 2021 census values and the share of owners.

Saint-JérômeSainte-Anne-des-LacsGorePrévostMille-IslesMirabelSaint-JérômeSainte-Anne-des-LacsGorePrévostMille-IslesMirabelSaint-Colomban
Prices next door
TownMedian home valueAverageOwnerskm
Saint-Colomban$348K$378K87%
Saint-Jérôme$300K$311K51%8.3
Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs$420K$528K86%12.9
Gore$300K$334K89%13
Prévost$348K$384K85%13.4
Mille-Isles$300K$351K91%13.6
Mirabel$400K$414K66%14.7

Census 2021 values; km.

Questions about property prices in Saint-Colomban

Is Saint-Colomban expensive for Quebec?

Dearer than the middle: Quebec’s towns come to $300,000, Saint-Colomban to more.

How many households in Saint-Colomban are in core housing need?

Statistics Canada puts 3% of Saint-Colomban’s households in core housing need, much as for Quebec’s towns (3%).

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).