Photo: Unknown author Unknown author · Public domainHome values in Saint-Damien run 33% lower than the median of Quebec’s towns
Owners put the median home at $200,000 at the 2021 census; for Quebec’s towns the median is $300,000. These home values were given by owners themselves, in a census taken in May 2021. Statistics Canada doesn’t publish sales in Quebec, so nothing here says what Saint-Damien’s homes actually sold for. For property tax, the 2024 roll sets the median single-family home at $283,900, on July 1, 2022 market values.
What Saint-Damien’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
- $236K
- Owners
- 1,025
- 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-Damien’s roll values, house to plex
Dwellings on the roll of Saint-Damien: 79% in single-family houses and 4% in plexes. The roll also counts 192 chalets, at a median $137,950.
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: 96% of the homes in Saint-Damien stand alone (Quebec’s towns: 59%)
At the 2021 census, Saint-Damien had 1,220 homes with someone living in them. 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-Damien | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 2% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 9% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 3% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 9% | 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.
14.9 new homes a year per 1,000 in Saint-Damien: in step with Quebec’s towns (15.1)
Building permits added 98 homes in Saint-Damien between 2018 and 2023: some 16 a year. Single-unit buildings took 98% of them, where Quebec’s towns built 39%.
Most in 2022: 29 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-Damien against Quebec’s towns: 33% 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-Damien: Sainte-Émélie-de-l'Énergie and Saint-Gabriel
Next to Saint-Damien: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Damien | $200K | $236K | 85% | |
| Sainte-Émélie-de-l'Énergie | $180K | $226K | 84% | 7.4 |
| Saint-Jean-de-Matha | $250K | $270K | 81% | 11.3 |
| Saint-Gabriel | $188K | $212K | 50% | 13.1 |
| Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon | $200K | $231K | 88% | 15.1 |
| Mandeville | $200K | $235K | 86% | 17.7 |
| Sainte-Béatrix | $240K | $278K | 87% | 18.6 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Saint-Damien
How many households in Saint-Damien are in core housing need?
9% of Saint-Damien’s households, above the 3% of Quebec’s towns, live in a home that is unaffordable, crowded or in poor repair, with no acceptable one nearby they could afford.
Is Saint-Damien expensive for Quebec?
Below the norm for Quebec’s towns, whose median home is worth $300,000; Saint-Damien’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).