Photo: Laceoflight Louis-Philippe Rousselle-Brosseau · CC BY-SA 3.0Little is being built in Saint-Placide: 6.1 new homes a year per 1,000, against 15.1 for Quebec’s towns
Going by owners’ own estimates in 2021, the typical home is worth $300,000, the average one $376,000. Sale prices aren’t published in Quebec: what owners told the census is the figure to go on for Saint-Placide. For property tax, the 2025 roll sets the median single-family home at $395,900, on July 1, 2023 market values.
What Saint-Placide’s homes are worth, two ways
Each source sits beside its own median for Quebec’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. No sale stands behind these values: owners named them at the census of May 2021.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $376K
- Owners
- 560
- 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 median house in Saint-Placide was built in 1968, against 1981 for Quebec’s towns
Dwellings on the roll of Saint-Placide: 68% in single-family houses, 18% in plexes and 3% in buildings of six units or more. It lists 70 chalets as well, at $338,250 in the middle.
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.
87% of Saint-Placide’s homes are detached houses, where Quebec’s towns have 59%
At the 2021 census, Saint-Placide had 780 homes with someone living in them. Half or more were standing by 1980.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Saint-Placide | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 2% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 8% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 10% | 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-Placide peaked in 2018: 8 new homes
Building permits added 27 homes in Saint-Placide between 2018 and 2022: some 5 a year. Houses dominate the permits, at 79% in single-unit buildings (Quebec’s towns: 39%).
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Up 19%: 31,370 new homes in the year to August 2026
Shared with the rest of the Montréal metro area: monthly permits
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-Placide sits close to 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-Placide: Saint-André-d'Argenteuil
The places around Saint-Placide at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Placide | $300K | $376K | 76% | |
| Rigaud | $348K | $400K | 77% | 8.8 |
| Kanesatake | – | – | – | 9 |
| Hudson | $600K | $728K | 88% | 9.2 |
| Saint-André-d'Argenteuil | $250K | $270K | 78% | 11.6 |
| Oka | $376K | $404K | 82% | 12.3 |
| Saint-Lazare | $500K | $558K | 93% | 14.8 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Saint-Placide
How many households in Saint-Placide are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 10% of Saint-Placide’s households in core housing need, a higher share than the 3% of Quebec’s towns.
Is Saint-Placide expensive for Quebec?
Saint-Placide is close to the norm for Quebec’s towns, whose median home is worth $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).