Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainSaint-Hugues adds housing slowly, at 5.6 new homes a year per 1,000 (Quebec’s towns: 15.1)
The middle home was worth $260,000 at the 2021 census, the average $285,000. Self-assessed in May 2021, these values predate the rate rises that followed. There is no public record of sale prices in Quebec, which leaves the census value as the guide for Saint-Hugues. On the 2025 property roll, single-family homes have a median of $335,050, valued as of July 1, 2023.
Two ways to price a home in Saint-Hugues
Every figure here is compared within the province, against Quebec’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $285K
- Owners
- 390
- 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 1962: the median house in Saint-Hugues, where Quebec’s towns sit at 1981
The roll puts Saint-Hugues’s dwellings at 85% in single-family houses, 8% in plexes and 4% in buildings of six units or more.
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.
90% of Saint-Hugues’s homes are detached houses, where Quebec’s towns have 59%
People lived in 540 homes in Saint-Hugues at the 2021 census. At least half predate 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Saint-Hugues | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | under 1% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 7% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 4% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 4% | 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-Hugues’s busiest year for permits was 2022, with 8 new homes
Over 2018–2023, 17 homes were permitted in Saint-Hugues, close to 3 each year. Most were houses: 53% went into single-unit buildings, against 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-Hugues against Quebec’s towns: 13% 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-Hugues: Saint-Guillaume and Saint-Eugène
Next to Saint-Hugues: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Hugues | $260K | $285K | 81% | |
| Saint-Simon | $296K | $307K | 68% | 8.8 |
| Saint-Barnabé-Sud | $270K | $272K | 85% | 10 |
| Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot | $260K | $292K | 73% | 11.6 |
| Saint-Jude | $250K | $283K | 86% | 12 |
| Saint-Guillaume | $200K | $204K | 80% | 12.7 |
| Saint-Eugène | $200K | $219K | 81% | 14.4 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Saint-Hugues
How many households in Saint-Hugues are in core housing need?
About as many as elsewhere: 4% of households in Saint-Hugues, where Quebec’s towns sit at 3%.
Is Saint-Hugues expensive for Quebec?
Cheaper than the middle: Quebec’s towns come to $300,000, Saint-Hugues to 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).