Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.0Homes in Saint-Ubalde are worth 50% less than the median of Quebec’s towns
That is a median of $150,000 at the 2021 census, set beside $300,000 for Quebec’s towns. There is no public record of sale prices in Quebec, which leaves the census value as the guide for Saint-Ubalde. The town’s assessors, on the 2025 roll, put the median house at $173,400 (market of July 1, 2023).
What Saint-Ubalde’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. An owner’s figure, not a sale: the census of May 2021 asked what each home would fetch.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $178K
- 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).
Saint-Ubalde’s plexes have a median roll value of $195,850, 53% under Quebec’s towns
The roll puts Saint-Ubalde’s dwellings at 53% in single-family houses, 8% in plexes and 3% in buildings of six units or more. Chalets add 361 more entries, valued at a median $320,200.
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.
46% of Saint-Ubalde’s homes predate 1961, against 21% for Quebec’s towns
The 2021 census counted 735 occupied homes in Saint-Ubalde; 84% of them are single-detached houses.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Saint-Ubalde | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 4% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 9% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | under 1% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 9% | 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.
15.2 new homes a year per 1,000 in Saint-Ubalde: in step with Quebec’s towns (15.1)
Saint-Ubalde issued permits for 57 new homes from 2018 to 2023, or about 10 a year. 77% were single-unit buildings, beside 39% for Quebec’s towns.
The busiest year: 2023, with 20 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-Ubalde is cheaper than most of Quebec’s towns: 50% under their $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-Ubalde
Next to Saint-Ubalde: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Ubalde | $150K | $178K | 80% | |
| Saint-Alban | $174K | $184K | 83% | 11 |
| Saint-Casimir | $150K | $165K | 75% | 14 |
| Lac-aux-Sables | $145K | $193K | 82% | 17.2 |
| Saint-Marc-des-Carrières | $200K | $202K | 71% | 18 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Saint-Ubalde
Is Saint-Ubalde expensive for Quebec?
Below the norm for Quebec’s towns, whose median home is worth $300,000; Saint-Ubalde’s is worth less.
How many households in Saint-Ubalde are in core housing need?
More than most: 9% of households in Saint-Ubalde, where Quebec’s towns sit at 3%.
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).