Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0A home in Saint-Modeste is worth 40% less than the middle of Quebec’s towns
The census median was $180,000 in 2021, against $300,000 for Quebec’s towns. A census value is an owner’s guess at a selling price in May 2021, and prices have moved since. Sale prices aren’t published in Quebec: what owners told the census is the figure to go on for Saint-Modeste. On the 2025 property roll, single-family homes have a median of $205,200, valued as of July 1, 2020.
Two ways to price a home in Saint-Modeste
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
- $192K
- Owners
- 390
- Quebec’s towns
- $300K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
single-family, market at July 1, 2020
- 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).
In Saint-Modeste, plexes are on the roll at a median $195,200, 53% below Quebec’s towns
The roll puts Saint-Modeste’s dwellings at 82% in single-family houses, 8% in plexes and 1% in buildings of six units or more. Chalets add 37 more entries, valued at a median $62,300.
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.
A town of houses: 92% of the homes in Saint-Modeste stand alone (Quebec’s towns: 59%)
People lived in 445 homes in Saint-Modeste at the 2021 census. At least half predate 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Saint-Modeste | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | under 1% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 8% | 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.
Permits in Saint-Modeste ran at 9 homes a year per 1,000, where Quebec’s towns ran at 15.1
Some 4 homes a year: 23 in all were permitted in Saint-Modeste from 2018 to 2023. 85% were single-unit buildings, beside 39% for Quebec’s towns.
A peak in 2023: 8 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-Modeste is 40% 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.
Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.
Lower values near Saint-Modeste: Saint-Hubert-de-Rivière-du-Loup
The places around Saint-Modeste at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Modeste | $180K | $192K | 90% | |
| Saint-Antonin | $200K | $218K | 78% | 7 |
| Rivière-du-Loup | $224K | $239K | 54% | 10.7 |
| Saint-Arsène | $200K | $211K | 76% | 13.7 |
| Cacouna | $200K | $232K | 73% | 14 |
| Notre-Dame-du-Portage | $300K | $354K | 91% | 16.2 |
| Saint-Hubert-de-Rivière-du-Loup | $134K | $170K | 86% | 17.2 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Saint-Modeste
How many households in Saint-Modeste are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts under 1% of Saint-Modeste’s households in core housing need, a smaller share than the 3% of Quebec’s towns.
Is Saint-Modeste expensive for Quebec?
No: Saint-Modeste’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).