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Property prices in Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce · Census 2021 and Statistics Canada

The property roll puts Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce’s houses 41% below the middle of Quebec’s towns

Owners valued the median home at $196,000 at the 2021 census, and the average at $203,600. What homes sold for in Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce isn’t public: no sale figures are released in Quebec. Building permits in Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce added about 44 homes a year from 2018 to 2023.

Median home value
$196K
owners’ estimate, census 2021
average $204K
Property roll value
$207K
single-family homes, roll 2024
market at July 1, 2022
New homes a year
44
permits, 2018–2023
22.7 per 1,000 homes
Owner households
1,475
census 2021
71% of households
What homes are worth

Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce’s homes, by two sources

Two sources, each set against Quebec’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders. Owners gave those values at the May 2021 census; they are estimates, and older than today’s prices.

Census 2021$196K

median, owners’ estimate

Average
$204K
Owners
1,475
Quebec’s towns
$300K
The typical Canadian town
$406K
Property roll 2024$207K

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).

The roll by kind

The roll values plexes in Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce at $190,750, 54% less than across Quebec’s towns

By kind of building, Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce’s dwellings on the roll split 66% in single-family houses, 16% in plexes and 16% in buildings of six units or more. It lists 39 chalets as well, at $76,100 in the middle.

Value by kind

Median roll value by kind, 2024 the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns

Detached houses$207K
Semi-detached and row$206K
Plexes (2–5 units), a building$191K
Chalets$76K
Dwellings on the roll

Dwellings by kind of building

Single-family houses66%
Plexes16%
Buildings of 6+ units16%
1978
year the median house was built (Quebec’s towns: 1981)
15%
of dwellings built since 2016
2,370
dwellings on the roll

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.

The homes

How Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce’s homes break down, by age and kind

The 2021 census counted 2,130 occupied homes in Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce; 71% of them are single-detached houses. Half or more were standing by 1980.

When they were built

Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns

Before 196125%
1961–198030%
1981–200021%
2001–201517%
2016–20217%
What kind of home

Homes by kind

Single-detached houses71%
Semi-detached houses4%
Row houses1%
Flats in a duplex5%
Apartments, under 5 storeys15%
Other attached4%
Against the median town of the province and of Canada
Saint-Joseph-de-BeauceQuebecCanada
Condominiums6%8%8%
Needing major repairs4%6%6%
Too small for the household1%2%3%
Households in core housing need1%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.

New homes

Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce permitted 22.7 new homes a year per 1,000, above the 15.1 of Quebec’s towns

24% were single-unit buildings and the rest multi-unit ones, against 39% for Quebec’s towns.

Permits by year, 2018–2023

Most in 2021: 71 new homes

Single-unit buildingsTwo or more units
020406080201820192020202120222023
The pace

New homes a year per 1,000 homes

Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce22.7
Quebec’s towns15.1
The typical Canadian town13.8
$7.6M
of new residential construction a year, 2019–2023

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.

Across Quebec

Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce is cheaper than most of Quebec’s towns: 35% under their $300,000 median

510 of Quebec’s towns (2,500 people or more), by median value at the 2021 census, dearest first.

Median value, census 2021

Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.

Lower values near Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce: Saint-Frédéric, Vallée-Jonction and Tring-Jonction

Next to Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce: 2021 census values and the share of owners.

Saint-FrédéricVallée-JonctionSaints-AngesTring-JonctionBeaucevilleSaint-Odilon-de-CranbourneSaint-FrédéricVallée-JonctionSaints-AngesTring-JonctionBeaucevilleSaint-Odilon-de-CranbourneSaint-Joseph-de-Beauce
Prices next door
TownMedian home valueAverageOwnerskm
Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce$196K$204K71%
Saint-Frédéric$160K$185K87%8.3
Vallée-Jonction$180K$195K76%8.4
Saints-Anges$200K$210K90%9.6
Tring-Jonction$174K$183K76%12.2
Beauceville$170K$188K70%12.4
Saint-Odilon-de-Cranbourne$150K$166K81%16.4

Census 2021 values; km.

Questions about property prices in Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce

How many households in Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce are in core housing need?

Fewer than most: 1% of households in Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce, where Quebec’s towns sit at 3%.

Is Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce expensive for Quebec?

No: Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce’s census median is below the $300,000 of Quebec’s towns.

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).