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

Half the owned homes in Saint-Gédéon are valued above $250,000

830 owner households answered the census question on value in 2021. For Saint-Gédéon there is no published sale price, as for every town in Quebec. Québec’s 2025 property roll puts single-family homes at a median $291,400, at market values of July 1, 2023.

Median home value
$250K
owners’ estimate, census 2021
average $311K
Property roll value
$291K
single-family homes, roll 2025
market at July 1, 2023
New homes a year
22
permits, 2018–2023
25.6 per 1,000 homes
Owner households
830
census 2021
87% of households
What homes are worth

What Saint-Gédéon’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.

Census 2021$250K

median, owners’ estimate

Average
$311K
Owners
830
Quebec’s towns
$300K
The typical Canadian town
$406K
Property roll 2025$291K

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

The roll values plexes in Saint-Gédéon at $239,600, 42% less than across Quebec’s towns

Dwellings on the roll of Saint-Gédéon: 66% in single-family houses, 10% in plexes, 3% in buildings of six units or more and 1% in condos. It lists 233 chalets as well, at $268,600 in the middle.

Value by kind

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

Detached houses$283K
Semi-detached and row$382K
Condos$388K
Plexes (2–5 units), a building$240K
Chalets$269K
Mobile homes$168K
Dwellings on the roll

Dwellings by kind of building

Single-family houses66%
Condos1%
Plexes10%
Buildings of 6+ units3%
1985
year the median house was built (Quebec’s towns: 1981)
14%
of dwellings built since 2016
1,300
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

Single-detached houses are 86% of Saint-Gédéon’s homes, against 59% for Quebec’s towns

People lived in 970 homes in Saint-Gédéon at the 2021 census. Half or more were standing by 1980.

When they were built

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

Before 196121%
1961–198029%
1981–200024%
2001–201519%
2016–20216%
What kind of home

Homes by kind

Single-detached houses86%
Semi-detached houses2%
Row housesunder 1%
Flats in a duplex6%
Apartments, under 5 storeys5%
Movable dwellings1%
Against the median town of the province and of Canada
Saint-GédéonQuebecCanada
Condominiums3%8%8%
Needing major repairs5%6%6%
Too small for the household2%2%3%
Households in core housing needunder 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.

New homes

Permits in Saint-Gédéon ran at 25.6 homes a year per 1,000, where Quebec’s towns ran at 15.1

Saint-Gédéon issued permits for 134 new homes from 2018 to 2023, or about 22 a year. Single-unit buildings took 57% of them, where Quebec’s towns built 39%.

Permits by year, 2018–2023

The busiest year: 2021, with 47 new homes

Single-unit buildingsTwo or more units
01020304050201820192020202120222023
The pace

New homes a year per 1,000 homes

Saint-Gédéon25.6
Quebec’s towns15.1
The typical Canadian town13.8
$6.07M
of new residential construction a year, 2019–2023

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-Gédéon 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.

Median value, census 2021

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

Cheaper next to Saint-Gédéon: Saint-Bruno, Hébertville-Station and Alma

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

Saint-BrunoHébertville-StationAlmaMétabetchouan--Lac-à-la-CroixHébertvilleSaint-NazaireSaint-BrunoHébertville-StationAlmaMétabetchouan--Lac-à-la-CroixHébertvilleSaint-NazaireSaint-Gédéon
Prices next door
TownMedian home valueAverageOwnerskm
Saint-Gédéon$250K$311K87%
Saint-Bruno$200K$206K73%7.5
Hébertville-Station$174K$181K72%7.8
Alma$200K$222K66%9.8
Métabetchouan--Lac-à-la-Croix$174K$209K77%12.3
Hébertville$180K$196K79%12.5
Saint-Nazaire$188K$200K80%16.2

Census 2021 values; km.

Questions about property prices in Saint-Gédéon

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

Statistics Canada puts under 1% of Saint-Gédéon’s households in core housing need, a smaller share than the 3% of Quebec’s towns.

Is Saint-Gédéon expensive for Quebec?

Below the norm for Quebec’s towns, whose median home is worth $300,000; Saint-Gédéon’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).