Photo: Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec · Public domainSaint-Robert adds housing slowly, at 3.3 new homes a year per 1,000 (Quebec’s towns: 15.1)
By the 2021 census, half of owned homes were worth more than $200,000; the average was $237,600. What homes sold for in Saint-Robert isn’t public: no sale figures are released in Quebec. On the 2025 property roll, single-family homes have a median of $310,800, valued as of July 1, 2023.
Two ways to price a home in Saint-Robert
Two sources, each set against Quebec’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders. Treat the values as owners’ May 2021 guesses: they are self-reported, and they come from before rates went up.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $238K
- Owners
- 675
- 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).
Saint-Robert on the property roll, kind by kind
By kind of building, Saint-Robert’s dwellings on the roll split 88% in single-family houses, 8% in plexes and 1% in buildings of six units or more.
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: 94% of the homes in Saint-Robert stand alone (Quebec’s towns: 59%)
Saint-Robert had 790 occupied homes at the 2021 census. Half went up before 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Saint-Robert | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | under 1% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 5% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | under 1% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 2% | 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.
2019 was the year Saint-Robert built most: 4 new homes permitted
Building permits added 16 homes in Saint-Robert between 2018 and 2023: some 3 a year. Single-unit buildings took 92% of them, where Quebec’s towns built 39%.
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-Robert against Quebec’s towns: 33% under the $300,000 median
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-Robert: Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel
The places around Saint-Robert at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Robert | $200K | $238K | 86% | |
| Yamaska | $200K | $220K | 75% | 4.7 |
| Sainte-Anne-de-Sorel | $250K | $288K | 85% | 9.6 |
| Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel | $250K | $289K | 86% | 9.7 |
| Sorel-Tracy | $200K | $240K | 60% | 11.9 |
| Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel | $130K | $157K | 38% | 13.1 |
| Saint-Ignace-de-Loyola | $278K | $299K | 74% | 14.3 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Saint-Robert
How many households in Saint-Robert are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 2% of Saint-Robert’s households in core housing need, much as for Quebec’s towns (3%).
Is Saint-Robert expensive for Quebec?
Less than most: Quebec’s towns have a median of $300,000, and Saint-Robert sits below it.
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).