Photo: Société du patrimoine des Beaucerons - Fonds PR86 - Collection Chantale Gilbert pl. 1, no 1 · Public domainHome values in Saint-Elzéar run 27% lower than the median of Quebec’s towns
Owners put the median home at $220,000 at the 2021 census; for Quebec’s towns the median is $300,000. What homes sold for in Saint-Elzéar isn’t public: no sale figures are released in Quebec. On the 2025 property roll, single-family homes have a median of $270,000, valued as of July 1, 2023.
What Saint-Elzéar’s homes are worth, two ways
Two sources, each set against Quebec’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders. These home values were given by owners themselves, in a census taken in May 2021.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $234K
- Owners
- 790
- Quebec’s towns
- $300K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
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).
Built in 1995: the median house in Saint-Elzéar, where Quebec’s towns sit at 1981
Saint-Elzéar’s roll counts its dwellings 79% in single-family houses, 9% in plexes, 5% in buildings of six units or more and 2% in condos. It lists 42 chalets as well, at $123,700 in the middle.
Median roll value by kind, 2025 the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Dwellings by kind of building
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.
Since 2001: 37% of the homes in Saint-Elzéar, where Quebec’s towns have 21%
At the 2021 census, 75% of Saint-Elzéar’s 1,000 occupied homes were single-detached houses.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Saint-Elzéar | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 5% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 4% | 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.
Saint-Elzéar permitted 26.2 new homes a year per 1,000, above the 15.1 of Quebec’s towns
From 2018 to 2023, permits in Saint-Elzéar created 142 homes, about 24 a year. The mix: 28% in single-unit buildings, beside 39% for Quebec’s towns.
A peak in 2021: 51 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-Elzéar is 27% below the $300,000 median of Quebec’s towns
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-Elzéar: Vallée-Jonction, Saint-Patrice-de-Beaurivage and Saint-Frédéric
The places around Saint-Elzéar at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Elzéar | $220K | $234K | 80% | |
| Sainte-Marie | $240K | $259K | 71% | 6 |
| Scott | $250K | $270K | 80% | 11.1 |
| Vallée-Jonction | $180K | $195K | 76% | 11.2 |
| Saint-Patrice-de-Beaurivage | $186K | $209K | 76% | 12 |
| Saint-Bernard | $230K | $244K | 79% | 12.3 |
| Saint-Frédéric | $160K | $185K | 87% | 12.7 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Saint-Elzéar
How many households in Saint-Elzéar are in core housing need?
under 1% of Saint-Elzéar’s households, under the 3% of Quebec’s towns, live in a home that is unaffordable, crowded or in poor repair and can’t afford a better one nearby.
Is Saint-Elzéar expensive for Quebec?
On census values, Saint-Elzéar sits among the cheaper of Quebec’s towns (median $300,000).
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).