Photo: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0Homes in Saint-Malachie are worth 41% less than the median of Quebec’s towns
Owners put the median home at $176,000 at the 2021 census; for Quebec’s towns the median is $300,000. Those values come from owners at the 2021 census and predate the prices of the years since. There is no public record of sale prices in Quebec, which leaves the census value as the guide for Saint-Malachie. The municipal roll for 2025 values single-family homes at a median $216,600, at July 1, 2023 prices.
What Saint-Malachie’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
- $189K
- Owners
- 610
- 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).
The roll values plexes in Saint-Malachie at $230,150, 44% less than across Quebec’s towns
By kind of building, Saint-Malachie’s dwellings on the roll split 76% in single-family houses, 7% in plexes, 4% in buildings of six units or more and 2% in condos. Chalets add 85 more entries, valued at a median $132,500.
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.
86% of Saint-Malachie’s homes are detached houses, where Quebec’s towns have 59%
The 2021 census counted 700 occupied homes in Saint-Malachie. At least half predate 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Saint-Malachie | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 5% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 7% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | under 1% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | under 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-Malachie permitted 10.6 new homes a year per 1,000, below the 15.1 of Quebec’s towns
From 2018 to 2023, permits in Saint-Malachie created 42 homes, about 7 a year. Most were houses: 97% went into single-unit buildings, against 39% for Quebec’s towns.
The busiest year: 2021, with 14 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-Malachie against Quebec’s towns: 41% 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.
Cheaper next to Saint-Malachie: Saint-Léon-de-Standon and Saint-Damien-de-Buckland
Next to Saint-Malachie: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Malachie | $176K | $189K | 87% | |
| Frampton | $174K | $191K | 89% | 6.3 |
| Saint-Léon-de-Standon | $100K | $138K | 83% | 11 |
| Sainte-Marguerite | $200K | $208K | 75% | 11.6 |
| Sainte-Claire | $200K | $211K | 71% | 12 |
| Saint-Damien-de-Buckland | $150K | $167K | 73% | 14.2 |
| Saints-Anges | $200K | $210K | 90% | 14.5 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Saint-Malachie
How many households in Saint-Malachie are in core housing need?
Below the norm for Quebec’s towns (3%): under 1% in Saint-Malachie, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.
Is Saint-Malachie expensive for Quebec?
Below the norm for Quebec’s towns, whose median home is worth $300,000; Saint-Malachie’s is worth less.
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).