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Property prices in Saint-Michel-du-Squatec · Census 2021 and Statistics Canada

Homes in Saint-Michel-du-Squatec are worth 67% less than the median of Quebec’s towns

Owners valued the median home at $100,000 in 2021, where the median of Quebec’s towns was $300,000. A census value is an owner’s guess at a selling price in May 2021, and prices have moved since. Statistics Canada’s housing statistics carry no sale prices in Quebec; the census value stands in for Saint-Michel-du-Squatec. The town’s assessors, on the 2025 roll, put the median house at $123,200 (market of July 1, 2023).

Median home value
$100K
owners’ estimate, census 2021
average $120K
Property roll value
$123K
single-family homes, roll 2025
market at July 1, 2023
Owner households
370
census 2021
76% of households
What homes are worth

What Saint-Michel-du-Squatec’s homes are worth, two ways

Two sources, each set against Quebec’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders.

Census 2021$100K

median, owners’ estimate

Average
$120K
Owners
370
Quebec’s towns
$300K
The typical Canadian town
$406K
Property roll 2025$123K

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 by kind

Saint-Michel-du-Squatec’s plexes have a median roll value of $155,200, 62% under Quebec’s towns

By kind of building, Saint-Michel-du-Squatec’s dwellings on the roll split 68% in single-family houses, 10% in buildings of six units or more and 9% in plexes. Chalets add 66 more entries, valued at a median $103,050.

Value by kind

Median roll value by kind, 2025 the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns

Detached houses$123K
Plexes (2–5 units), a building$155K
Chalets$103K
Dwellings on the roll

Dwellings by kind of building

Single-family houses68%
Plexes9%
Buildings of 6+ units10%
1961
year the median house was built (Quebec’s towns: 1981)
2%
of dwellings built since 2016
578
dwellings on the roll

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.

The homes

Before 1961: 39% of the homes in Saint-Michel-du-Squatec, where Quebec’s towns have 21%

The 2021 census counted 500 occupied homes in Saint-Michel-du-Squatec; 83% of them are single-detached houses.

When they were built

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

Before 196139%
1961–198032%
1981–200020%
2001–20157%
2016–20212%
What kind of home

Homes by kind

Single-detached houses83%
Semi-detached housesunder 1%
Row houses2%
Flats in a duplex1%
Apartments, under 5 storeys13%
Movable dwellings1%
Against the median town of the province and of Canada
Saint-Michel-du-SquatecQuebecCanada
Condominiums6%8%8%
Needing major repairs3%6%6%
Too small for the householdunder 1%2%3%
Households in core housing need7%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.

Across Quebec

Saint-Michel-du-Squatec is 67% 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.

Median value, census 2021

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

Saint-Michel-du-Squatec’s neighbours by home value

Next to Saint-Michel-du-Squatec: 2021 census values and the share of owners. The nearest places to Saint-Michel-du-Squatec with figures are 23–28 km away.

Saint-CyprienTémiscouata-sur-le-LacSaint-Jean-de-DieuSaint-CyprienTémiscouata-sur-le-LacSaint-Jean-de-DieuSaint-Michel-du-Squatec
Prices next door
TownMedian home valueAverageOwnerskm
Saint-Michel-du-Squatec$100K$120K76%
Saint-Cyprien$140K$144K79%23.5
Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac$174K$198K70%27
Saint-Jean-de-Dieu$105K$123K75%28.1

Census 2021 values; km.

Questions about property prices in Saint-Michel-du-Squatec

Is Saint-Michel-du-Squatec expensive for Quebec?

On census values, Saint-Michel-du-Squatec sits among the cheaper of Quebec’s towns (median $300,000).

How many households in Saint-Michel-du-Squatec are in core housing need?

In Saint-Michel-du-Squatec, 7% of households are in core housing need, against 3% for Quebec’s towns: their home costs too much, is too small or needs major repairs, and nothing suitable nearby costs under 30% of their income.

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).