Photo: Sjvachon · CC BY-SA 4.0A home in Sainte-Marie is worth 20% less than the middle of Quebec’s towns
Owners put the median home at $240,000 at the 2021 census; for Quebec’s towns the median is $300,000. No sales are published for towns in Quebec, Sainte-Marie included, so owners’ values are the measure. On the 2024 property roll, single-family homes have a median of $270,600, valued as of July 1, 2022.
What Sainte-Marie’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. Owners gave those values at the May 2021 census; they are estimates, and older than today’s prices.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $259K
- Owners
- 3,845
- 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).
Sainte-Marie’s plexes have a median roll value of $303,500, 26% under Quebec’s towns
On Sainte-Marie’s roll, the dwellings sit 64% in single-family houses, 20% in buildings of six units or more, 10% in plexes and 3% in condos. There are 74 chalets on it too, with a median of $91,400.
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.
Sainte-Marie’s homes: when they went up and what they are
Of the 5,500 homes people lived in across Sainte-Marie at the 2021 census, 58% were single-detached houses. The older half dates from before 2001.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Sainte-Marie | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 13% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 3% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 1% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 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.
Building ahead of Quebec’s towns: 28.6 new homes a year per 1,000 in Sainte-Marie, against 15.1
From 2018 to 2023, permits in Sainte-Marie created 854 homes, about 142 a year. Apartments and other multi-unit buildings dominate: only 18% were single-unit, against 39% for Quebec’s towns.
A peak in 2020: 251 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.
Sainte-Marie against Quebec’s towns: 20% 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 Sainte-Marie: Saint-Elzéar, Sainte-Marguerite and Vallée-Jonction
The places around Sainte-Marie at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Marie | $240K | $259K | 71% | |
| Saint-Elzéar | $220K | $234K | 80% | 6 |
| Scott | $250K | $270K | 80% | 7.4 |
| Saint-Bernard | $230K | $244K | 79% | 10.6 |
| Sainte-Marguerite | $200K | $208K | 75% | 10.8 |
| Vallée-Jonction | $180K | $195K | 76% | 11.1 |
| Sainte-Hénédine | $200K | $225K | 84% | 13.9 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Sainte-Marie
How many households in Sainte-Marie are in core housing need?
1% of Sainte-Marie’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.
Is Sainte-Marie expensive for Quebec?
On census values, Sainte-Marie sits among the cheaper of Quebec’s towns (median $300,000).
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).