Photo: Andre Carrotflower · CC BY-SA 4.0In Saint-Jérôme, 12% of households can’t afford a home that is big enough and in good repair (Quebec’s towns: 3%)
Asked in 2021, owners gave a median value of $300,000; averaged, their homes came to $310,800. No sales are published for towns in Quebec, Saint-Jérôme included, so owners’ values are the measure. On the 2026 property roll, single-family homes have a median of $456,200, valued as of July 1, 2024.
What Saint-Jérôme’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. Those values come from owners at the 2021 census and predate the prices of the years since.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $311K
- Owners
- 19,060
- Quebec’s towns
- $300K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
single-family, market at July 1, 2024
- 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).
31% of Saint-Jérôme’s dwellings are in plexes, where Quebec’s towns have 16%
Saint-Jérôme’s roll counts its dwellings 37% in single-family houses, 31% in plexes, 25% in buildings of six units or more and 8% in condos.
Median roll value by kind, 2026 the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Dwellings by kind of building
Rôle d’évaluation foncière 2026 (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.
More apartments than most: 45% of the homes in Saint-Jérôme (Quebec’s towns: 22%)
Saint-Jérôme had 37,375 occupied homes at the 2021 census. The older half dates from before 2001.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Saint-Jérôme | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 16% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 3% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 12% | 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.
Building ahead of Quebec’s towns: 19 new homes a year per 1,000 in Saint-Jérôme, against 15.1
Building permits added 4,258 homes in Saint-Jérôme between 2018 and 2023: some 710 a year. Apartments and other multi-unit buildings dominate: only 9% were single-unit, against 39% for Quebec’s towns.
The busiest year: 2020, with 1,320 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Rising: 31,370 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, 19% more
Area-wide: monthly permits, counted over the Montréal metro area
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-Jérôme sits near the middle of Quebec’s towns ($300,000)
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.
Home values around Saint-Jérôme
Next to Saint-Jérôme: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Jérôme | $300K | $311K | 51% | |
| Sainte-Sophie | $300K | $324K | 79% | 7.2 |
| Saint-Colomban | $348K | $378K | 87% | 8.3 |
| Prévost | $348K | $384K | 85% | 8.5 |
| Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs | $420K | $528K | 86% | 11 |
| Saint-Hippolyte | $324K | $374K | 85% | 12.6 |
| Mirabel | $400K | $414K | 66% | 14.1 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Saint-Jérôme
Is Saint-Jérôme expensive for Quebec?
Neither more nor less: Quebec’s towns have a median of $300,000, and Saint-Jérôme is near it.
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).