Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Saint-Raphaël sits 38% below Quebec’s towns on home values
The census median was $186,000 in 2021, against $300,000 for Quebec’s towns. No sales are published for towns in Quebec, Saint-Raphaël included, so owners’ values are the measure. For property tax, the 2026 roll sets the median single-family home at $242,000, on July 1, 2024 market values.
Two ways to price a home in Saint-Raphaël
Two sources, each set against Quebec’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders. Census values are owners’ own estimates, taken in May 2021, before the rise in interest rates.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $211K
- Owners
- 875
- Quebec’s towns
- $300K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
single-family, market at July 1, 2024
- 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-Raphaël’s plexes have a median roll value of $285,850, 31% under Quebec’s towns
By kind of building, Saint-Raphaël’s dwellings on the roll split 75% in single-family houses, 9% in plexes and 4% in buildings of six units or more. The roll also counts 132 chalets, at a median $174,500.
Median roll value by kind, 2026 the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Dwellings by kind of building
Rôle d’évaluation foncière 2026 (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.
33% of Saint-Raphaël’s homes predate 1961, against 21% for Quebec’s towns
Of the 1,080 homes people lived in across Saint-Raphaël at the 2021 census, 82% were single-detached houses.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Saint-Raphaël | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 3% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 7% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 5% | 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 behind Quebec’s towns: 12 new homes a year per 1,000 in Saint-Raphaël, against 15.1
From 2018 to 2023, permits in Saint-Raphaël created 76 homes, about 13 a year. Most were houses: 66% went into single-unit buildings, against 39% for Quebec’s towns.
Most in 2021: 28 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-Raphaël against Quebec’s towns: 38% 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-Raphaël: Armagh
The places around Saint-Raphaël at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Raphaël | $186K | $211K | 83% | |
| Saint-François-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud | $180K | $199K | 72% | 8.6 |
| Saint-Vallier | $250K | $265K | 80% | 11.5 |
| Armagh | $125K | $139K | 79% | 14.2 |
| Saint-Gervais | $224K | $227K | 74% | 14.2 |
| Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse | $276K | $318K | 87% | 14.6 |
| Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse | $224K | $236K | 79% | 14.8 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Saint-Raphaël
Is Saint-Raphaël expensive for Quebec?
Cheaper than the middle: Quebec’s towns come to $300,000, Saint-Raphaël to less.
How many households in Saint-Raphaël are in core housing need?
5% of Saint-Raphaël’s households, near 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.
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).