Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Permits in Saint-Michel added just 2.9 homes a year for every 1,000, where Quebec’s towns added 15.1
Census values for 2021: a median of $360,000 and an average of $411,000. What owners reported in May 2021 is an opinion of value; interest rates and prices have both moved since. No open sale prices are published in Quebec, so for Saint-Michel the census value is the measure. On the 2024 property roll, single-family homes have a median of $496,100, valued as of July 1, 2022.
Two ways to price a home in Saint-Michel
Each source sits beside its own median for Quebec’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $411K
- Owners
- 1,030
- 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-Michel’s plexes have a median roll value of $576,100, 40% over Quebec’s towns
On Saint-Michel’s roll, the dwellings sit 80% in single-family houses, 12% in plexes, 7% in buildings of six units or more and 1% in condos.
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.
How Saint-Michel’s homes break down, by age and kind
The 2021 census counted 1,260 occupied homes in Saint-Michel; 73% of them are single-detached houses. Half or more were standing by 2000.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Saint-Michel | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 11% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 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.
The peak came in 2018, when Saint-Michel permitted 41 new homes
Some 10 homes a year: 59 in all were permitted in Saint-Michel from 2018 to 2023. 89% were single-unit buildings, beside 39% for Quebec’s towns.
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-Michel is 20% above the $300,000 median of Quebec’s towns
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-Michel: Saint-Rémi and Saint-Patrice-de-Sherrington
The places around Saint-Michel at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Michel | $360K | $411K | 85% | |
| Saint-Rémi | $320K | $342K | 63% | 4.3 |
| Saint-Édouard | $348K | $382K | 83% | 5.1 |
| Saint-Patrice-de-Sherrington | $300K | $314K | 77% | 8.4 |
| Saint-Mathieu | $348K | $365K | 89% | 9.5 |
| Saint-Isidore | $376K | $373K | 77% | 9.7 |
| Saint-Urbain-Premier | $348K | $382K | 78% | 12 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Saint-Michel
Is Saint-Michel expensive for Quebec?
Above the norm for Quebec’s towns, whose median home is worth $300,000; Saint-Michel’s is worth more.
How many households in Saint-Michel are in core housing need?
In Saint-Michel, 3% of households are in core housing need, close to the 3% of Quebec’s towns: those whose home costs too much, is too small or needs major repairs, with nothing suitable nearby under 30% of their income.
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).