Photo: Geai bleu · CC BY 3.0A median $250,000: what owners say homes in Saint-Jacques are worth
Behind it are the answers of 1,235 owners at the 2021 census. There is no public record of sale prices in Quebec, which leaves the census value as the guide for Saint-Jacques. For property tax, the 2025 roll sets the median single-family home at $366,600, on July 1, 2023 market values.
Two ways to price a home in Saint-Jacques
Each source sits beside its own median for Quebec’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. No sale stands behind these values: owners named them at the census of May 2021.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $281K
- Owners
- 1,235
- 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).
Duplexes to fiveplexes house 23% of Saint-Jacques, beside 16% for Quebec’s towns
Dwellings on the roll of Saint-Jacques: 62% in single-family houses, 23% in plexes and 14% 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.
An older stock than most: 32% of Saint-Jacques’s homes go back before 1961 (Quebec’s towns: 21%)
Of the 1,890 homes people lived in across Saint-Jacques at the 2021 census, 66% were single-detached houses.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Saint-Jacques | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 6% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 4% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 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-Jacques 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.
Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.
Saint-Jacques’s neighbours by home value
The places around Saint-Jacques at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Jacques | $250K | $281K | 67% | |
| Saint-Liguori | $250K | $281K | 88% | 5 |
| Saint-Alexis | $280K | $303K | 78% | 5.8 |
| Sainte-Marie-Salomé | $250K | $258K | 78% | 6.9 |
| Crabtree | $250K | $282K | 59% | 7.4 |
| Saint-Esprit | $250K | $289K | 72% | 9.7 |
| Sainte-Julienne | $250K | $268K | 84% | 10.4 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Saint-Jacques
How many households in Saint-Jacques are in core housing need?
1% of Saint-Jacques’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-Jacques expensive for Quebec?
On census values, Saint-Jacques sits among the cheaper of Quebec’s towns (median $300,000).
Sources: Statistics Canada, Census of Population 2021 · 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).