Photo: Gene.arboit · CC BY-SA 3.0Homes in Saint-Jean-de-Matha are worth a median $250,000
The census of 2021 asked 1,810 owner households what their home was worth. An owner’s figure, not a sale: the census of May 2021 asked what each home would fetch. Sale prices aren’t published in Quebec: what owners told the census is the figure to go on for Saint-Jean-de-Matha. The town’s assessors, on the 2024 roll, put the median house at $304,150 (market of July 1, 2022).
What Saint-Jean-de-Matha’s homes are worth, two ways
Every figure here is compared within the province, against Quebec’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $270K
- Owners
- 1,810
- Quebec’s towns
- $300K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
single-family, market at July 1, 2022
- 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).
Saint-Jean-de-Matha on the property roll, kind by kind
Saint-Jean-de-Matha’s roll counts its dwellings 78% in single-family houses, 13% in plexes and 2% in buildings of six units or more. Chalets add 137 more entries, valued at a median $121,700.
Median roll value by kind, 2024 the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Dwellings by kind of building
Rôle d’évaluation foncière 2024 (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.
89% of Saint-Jean-de-Matha’s homes are detached houses, where Quebec’s towns have 59%
People lived in 2,260 homes in Saint-Jean-de-Matha 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-Jean-de-Matha | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 2% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 6% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 1% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 3% | 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-Jean-de-Matha permitted 18 new homes a year per 1,000, close to the 15.1 of Quebec’s towns
Some 37 homes a year: 223 in all were permitted in Saint-Jean-de-Matha from 2018 to 2023. Single-unit buildings took 76% of them, where Quebec’s towns built 39%.
Most in 2022: 61 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-Jean-de-Matha is 17% below the $300,000 median of Quebec’s towns
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-Jean-de-Matha: Sainte-Émélie-de-l'Énergie and Saint-Damien
Next to Saint-Jean-de-Matha: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Jean-de-Matha | $250K | $270K | 81% | |
| Sainte-Béatrix | $240K | $278K | 87% | 8.4 |
| Sainte-Émélie-de-l'Énergie | $180K | $226K | 84% | 9.7 |
| Saint-Damien | $200K | $236K | 85% | 11.3 |
| Saint-Félix-de-Valois | $250K | $269K | 69% | 12.3 |
| Sainte-Mélanie | $250K | $285K | 81% | 13.2 |
| Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare | $250K | $275K | 82% | 13.8 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Saint-Jean-de-Matha
Is Saint-Jean-de-Matha expensive for Quebec?
No: Saint-Jean-de-Matha’s census median is below the $300,000 of Quebec’s towns.
How many households in Saint-Jean-de-Matha are in core housing need?
In line with Quebec’s towns (3%): 3% in Saint-Jean-de-Matha, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.
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).