Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.0Permits in Saint-Wenceslas added just 4.7 homes a year for every 1,000, where Quebec’s towns added 15.1
A median of $180,000 and a mean of $205,000: that is how owners valued their homes in 2021. Statistics Canada doesn’t publish sales in Quebec, so nothing here says what Saint-Wenceslas’s homes actually sold for. The town’s assessors, on the 2024 roll, put the median house at $234,650 (market of July 1, 2022).
Saint-Wenceslas’s homes, by two sources
Each source sits beside its own median for Quebec’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. The census figure is the owner’s own reckoning of value in May 2021; actual sale prices may differ.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $205K
- Owners
- 395
- 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).
The roll values plexes in Saint-Wenceslas at $258,850, 37% less than across Quebec’s towns
By kind of building, Saint-Wenceslas’s dwellings on the roll split 83% in single-family houses, 5% in plexes and 4% in buildings of six units or more.
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.
Single-detached houses are 92% of Saint-Wenceslas’s homes, against 59% for Quebec’s towns
Saint-Wenceslas had 500 occupied homes at the 2021 census. 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-Wenceslas | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | under 1% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 3% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 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.
2021 was the year Saint-Wenceslas built most: 4 new homes permitted
Saint-Wenceslas issued permits for 7 new homes from 2021 to 2023, or about 2 a year. Houses dominate the permits, at 86% in single-unit buildings (Quebec’s towns: 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-Wenceslas is cheaper than most of Quebec’s towns: 40% 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.
Cheaper next to Saint-Wenceslas: Daveluyville
Next to Saint-Wenceslas: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Wenceslas | $180K | $205K | 85% | |
| Sainte-Eulalie | $200K | $210K | 83% | 7.8 |
| Saint-Léonard-d'Aston | $184K | $204K | 72% | 7.9 |
| Daveluyville | $160K | $201K | 72% | 14 |
| Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Conseil | $200K | $217K | 68% | 18.6 |
| Bécancour | $200K | $229K | 75% | 19 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Saint-Wenceslas
How many households in Saint-Wenceslas are in core housing need?
In Saint-Wenceslas, under 1% of households are in core housing need, against 3% for Quebec’s towns: those whose home costs too much, is too small or needs major repairs, with nothing suitable nearby under 30% of their income.
Is Saint-Wenceslas expensive for Quebec?
No: Saint-Wenceslas’s census median is below the $300,000 of Quebec’s towns.
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).