Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.0Saint-Paul builds fast: 40.2 new homes a year per 1,000, against 15.1 for Quebec’s towns
In May 2021 the median owned home was worth $260,000 by its owner’s reckoning, the average one $283,600. Treat the values as owners’ May 2021 guesses: they are self-reported, and they come from before rates went up. What homes sold for in Saint-Paul isn’t public: no sale figures are released in Quebec. For property tax, the 2024 roll sets the median single-family home at $345,350, on July 1, 2022 market values.
Two ways to price a home in Saint-Paul
Two sources, each set against Quebec’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $284K
- Owners
- 2,200
- 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).
Built in 2003: the median house in Saint-Paul, where Quebec’s towns sit at 1981
The roll puts Saint-Paul’s dwellings at 69% in single-family houses, 15% in plexes, 12% in buildings of six units or more and 3% 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.
50% of Saint-Paul’s homes are from 2001 or later, against 21% for Quebec’s towns
At the 2021 census, 82% of Saint-Paul’s 2,700 occupied homes were single-detached houses.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Saint-Paul | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 6% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 4% | 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.
2020 was the year Saint-Paul built most: 126 new homes permitted
Over 2018–2023, 585 homes were permitted in Saint-Paul, close to 98 each year. Single-unit buildings took 21%, the rest buildings of two or more, against 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-Paul against Quebec’s towns: 13% 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.
Home values around Saint-Paul
The places around Saint-Paul at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Paul | $260K | $284K | 82% | |
| Joliette | $250K | $279K | 37% | 3 |
| Crabtree | $250K | $282K | 59% | 4 |
| Saint-Charles-Borromée | $300K | $323K | 47% | 6.5 |
| Notre-Dame-des-Prairies | $250K | $284K | 69% | 6.8 |
| Saint-Thomas | $280K | $290K | 74% | 7.3 |
| Sainte-Marie-Salomé | $250K | $258K | 78% | 8.8 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Saint-Paul
How many households in Saint-Paul are in core housing need?
In line with Quebec’s towns (3%): 3% in Saint-Paul, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.
Is Saint-Paul expensive for Quebec?
On census values, Saint-Paul sits among the cheaper of Quebec’s towns (median $300,000).
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).