Photo: ChristianT · CC BY-SA 3.0Saint-Prime sits 39% below Quebec’s towns on home values
That is a median of $184,000 at the 2021 census, set beside $300,000 for Quebec’s towns. What owners reported in May 2021 is an opinion of value; interest rates and prices have both moved since. What homes sold for in Saint-Prime isn’t public: no sale figures are released in Quebec. The municipal roll for 2024 values single-family homes at a median $205,500, at July 1, 2022 prices.
What Saint-Prime’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.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $206K
- Owners
- 905
- 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).
In Saint-Prime, plexes are on the roll at a median $185,200, 55% below Quebec’s towns
On Saint-Prime’s roll, the dwellings sit 65% in single-family houses, 20% in plexes and 3% in buildings of six units or more. Chalets add 109 more entries, valued at a median $120,100.
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.
Saint-Prime’s homes: when they went up and what they are
1,175 occupied homes stood in Saint-Prime in 2021, and single-detached houses made up 73% of them. At least half predate 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Saint-Prime | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 3% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 6% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 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.
Building at the pace of Quebec’s towns: 12.3 new homes a year per 1,000 in Saint-Prime, against 15.1
Some 15 homes a year: 89 in all were permitted in Saint-Prime from 2018 to 2023. Houses dominate the permits, at 68% in single-unit buildings (Quebec’s towns: 39%).
Most in 2023: 18 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-Prime against Quebec’s towns: 39% 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.
Cheaper next to Saint-Prime: Roberval
The places around Saint-Prime at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Prime | $184K | $206K | 80% | |
| Mashteuiatsh | – | – | 75% | 7.7 |
| Saint-Félicien | $180K | $203K | 72% | 9.8 |
| Roberval | $174K | $196K | 68% | 12.6 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Saint-Prime
How many households in Saint-Prime are in core housing need?
under 1% of Saint-Prime’s households, under the 3% of Quebec’s towns, live in a home that is unaffordable, crowded or in poor repair and can’t afford a better one nearby.
Is Saint-Prime expensive for Quebec?
Below the norm for Quebec’s towns, whose median home is worth $300,000; Saint-Prime’s is worth less.
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).