Photo: Gaétan Veillette · CC BY-SA 4.0The middle home in Saint-Hyacinthe is valued at $300,000
That figure comes from 13,005 owner households at the 2021 census. No open sale prices are published in Quebec, so for Saint-Hyacinthe the census value is the measure. The town’s assessors, on the 2025 roll, put the median house at $417,200 (market of July 1, 2023).
What Saint-Hyacinthe’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
- $314K
- Owners
- 13,005
- 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).
A plex town: 25% of the dwellings in Saint-Hyacinthe sit in buildings of two to five units (Quebec’s towns: 16%)
By kind of building, Saint-Hyacinthe’s dwellings on the roll split 38% in single-family houses, 32% in buildings of six units or more, 25% in plexes and 5% in condos.
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.
48% of Saint-Hyacinthe lives in apartments, where Quebec’s towns have 22%
At the 2021 census, Saint-Hyacinthe had 26,870 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-Hyacinthe | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 13% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 3% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 6% | 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-Hyacinthe permitted 21.7 new homes a year per 1,000, above the 15.1 of Quebec’s towns
Some 568 homes a year: 3,409 in all were permitted in Saint-Hyacinthe from 2018 to 2023. Multi-unit buildings took most: single-unit ones were just 6%, where Quebec’s towns built 39%.
A peak in 2021: 826 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-Hyacinthe against Quebec’s towns: about level with 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-Hyacinthe: Saint-Barnabé-Sud and Saint-Dominique
The places around Saint-Hyacinthe at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Hyacinthe | $300K | $314K | 49% | |
| La Présentation | $348K | $375K | 69% | 7.7 |
| Saint-Barnabé-Sud | $270K | $272K | 85% | 10 |
| Saint-Dominique | $278K | $296K | 77% | 10 |
| Sainte-Madeleine | $300K | $315K | 69% | 11.5 |
| Sainte-Marie-Madeleine | $324K | $348K | 85% | 11.7 |
| Saint-Simon | $296K | $307K | 68% | 12.2 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Saint-Hyacinthe
How many households in Saint-Hyacinthe are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 6% of Saint-Hyacinthe’s households in core housing need, a higher share than the 3% of Quebec’s towns.
Is Saint-Hyacinthe expensive for Quebec?
In the middle: Quebec’s towns come to $300,000, and so, near enough, does Saint-Hyacinthe.
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).