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Property prices in Saint-Zénon · Census 2021 and Statistics Canada

Core housing need reaches 10% of Saint-Zénon’s households, where Quebec’s towns sit at 3%

By the 2021 census, half of owned homes were worth more than $200,000; the average was $218,000. There is no public record of sale prices in Quebec, which leaves the census value as the guide for Saint-Zénon. On the 2025 property roll, single-family homes have a median of $247,400, valued as of July 1, 2023.

Median home value
$200K
owners’ estimate, census 2021
average $218K
Property roll value
$247K
single-family homes, roll 2025
market at July 1, 2023
Owner households
605
census 2021
82% of households
What homes are worth

What Saint-Zénon’s homes are worth, two ways

Every figure here is compared within the province, against Quebec’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms. Treat the values as owners’ May 2021 guesses: they are self-reported, and they come from before rates went up.

Census 2021$200K

median, owners’ estimate

Average
$218K
Owners
605
Quebec’s towns
$300K
The typical Canadian town
$406K
Property roll 2025$247K

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).

The roll by kind

The roll values plexes in Saint-Zénon at $289,200, 30% less than across Quebec’s towns

Saint-Zénon’s roll counts its dwellings 65% in single-family houses and 6% in plexes. The roll also counts 304 chalets, at a median $135,100.

Value by kind

Median roll value by kind, 2025 the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns

Detached houses$247K
Plexes (2–5 units), a building$289K
Chalets$135K
Mobile homes$9K
Dwellings on the roll

Dwellings by kind of building

Single-family houses65%
Plexes6%
1976
year the median house was built (Quebec’s towns: 1981)
6%
of dwellings built since 2016
1,634
dwellings on the roll

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.

The homes

A town of houses: 92% of the homes in Saint-Zénon stand alone (Quebec’s towns: 59%)

Saint-Zénon had 740 occupied homes at the 2021 census. The older half dates from before 1981.

When they were built

Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns

Before 196124%
1961–198032%
1981–200026%
2001–201513%
2016–20214%
What kind of home

Homes by kind

Single-detached houses92%
Semi-detached houses1%
Row housesunder 1%
Flats in a duplex2%
Apartments, under 5 storeys4%
Other attached1%
Movable dwellings1%
Against the median town of the province and of Canada
Saint-ZénonQuebecCanada
Condominiumsunder 1%8%8%
Needing major repairs4%6%6%
Too small for the householdunder 1%2%3%
Households in core housing need10%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.

Across Quebec

Saint-Zénon is 33% below the $300,000 median of Quebec’s towns

The census values of Quebec’s towns, 510 of them with 2,500+ people, from dearest to cheapest.

Median value, census 2021

Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.

Cheaper next to Saint-Zénon: Sainte-Émélie-de-l'Énergie

Next to Saint-Zénon: 2021 census values and the share of owners. Distances here run 13–39 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Saint-Zénon.

Saint-Michel-des-SaintsSaint-CômeSainte-Émélie-de-l'ÉnergieSaint-DamienNotre-Dame-de-la-MerciSaint-Michel-des-SaintsSaint-CômeSainte-Émélie-de-l'ÉnergieSaint-DamienNotre-Dame-de-la-MerciSaint-Zénon
Prices next door
TownMedian home valueAverageOwnerskm
Saint-Zénon$200K$218K82%
Saint-Michel-des-Saints$200K$246K76%13.3
Saint-Côme$224K$269K82%32.8
Sainte-Émélie-de-l'Énergie$180K$226K84%33.7
Saint-Damien$200K$236K85%34.6
Notre-Dame-de-la-Merci$250K$362K91%39.1

Census 2021 values; km.

Questions about property prices in Saint-Zénon

Is Saint-Zénon expensive for Quebec?

Less than most: Quebec’s towns have a median of $300,000, and Saint-Zénon sits below it.

Sources: Statistics Canada, Census of Population 2021 · 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).