Photo: Gaétan Veillette · CC BY-SA 4.0Permits in Saint-Damase added just 6.3 homes a year for every 1,000, where Quebec’s towns added 15.1
The 2021 census put the median home at $300,000, with an average of $296,000. No sale stands behind these values: owners named them at the census of May 2021. For Saint-Damase there is no published sale price, as for every town in Quebec. The town’s assessors, on the 2024 roll, put the median house at $360,600 (market of July 1, 2022).
Two ways to price a home in Saint-Damase
Two sources, each set against Quebec’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $296K
- Owners
- 720
- 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).
Saint-Damase’s houses are older than most: the median dates from 1971 (Quebec’s towns: 1981)
On Saint-Damase’s roll, the dwellings sit 75% in single-family houses, 14% in plexes and 8% in buildings of six units or more.
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.
How Saint-Damase’s homes break down, by age and kind
At the 2021 census, 79% of Saint-Damase’s 1,020 occupied homes were single-detached houses. At least half predate 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Saint-Damase | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 5% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 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.
2020 was the year Saint-Damase built most: 13 new homes permitted
Some 7 homes a year: 42 in all were permitted in Saint-Damase from 2018 to 2023. 72% were single-unit buildings, beside 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-Damase sits near the middle of Quebec’s towns ($300,000)
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-Damase: Saint-Pie
The places around Saint-Damase at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Damase | $300K | $296K | 78% | |
| Saint-Pie | $270K | $284K | 75% | 8.4 |
| Sainte-Marie-Madeleine | $324K | $348K | 85% | 8.6 |
| Rougemont | $300K | $328K | 69% | 9.1 |
| Saint-Jean-Baptiste | $300K | $314K | 76% | 9.4 |
| Sainte-Madeleine | $300K | $315K | 69% | 10.9 |
| Saint-Césaire | $300K | $306K | 63% | 11.9 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Saint-Damase
How many households in Saint-Damase are in core housing need?
In Saint-Damase, under 1% of households are in core housing need, against 3% for Quebec’s towns: those whose home costs too much, is too small or needs major repairs, with nothing suitable nearby under 30% of their income.
Is Saint-Damase expensive for Quebec?
About average: Saint-Damase’s census median is close to 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).