Photo: Veillg1 · CC0Expensive homes pull Sainte-Marthe’s average 25% above the middle
In May 2021 the median owned home was worth $324,000 by its owner’s reckoning, the average one $406,000. Self-assessed in May 2021, these values predate the rate rises that followed. There is no public record of sale prices in Quebec, which leaves the census value as the guide for Sainte-Marthe. The town’s assessors, on the 2024 roll, put the median house at $358,300 (market of July 1, 2022).
What Sainte-Marthe’s homes are worth, two ways
Each source sits beside its own median for Quebec’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $406K
- Owners
- 355
- 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 median house in Sainte-Marthe was built in 1966, against 1981 for Quebec’s towns
Dwellings on the roll of Sainte-Marthe: 84% in single-family houses and 14% in plexes.
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.
97% of Sainte-Marthe’s homes are detached houses, where Quebec’s towns have 59%
People lived in 440 homes in Sainte-Marthe at the 2021 census. The older half dates from before 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Sainte-Marthe | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | under 1% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 16% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | under 1% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 4% | 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.
9.1 new homes a year per 1,000 in Sainte-Marthe: fewer than Quebec’s towns (15.1)
Building permits added 21 homes in Sainte-Marthe between 2018 and 2023: some 4 a year. 60% were single-unit buildings, beside 39% for Quebec’s towns.
A peak in 2021: 6 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-Marthe is dearer than most of Quebec’s towns: 8% above 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 Sainte-Marthe: Saint-Clet and Saint-Polycarpe
Next to Sainte-Marthe: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Marthe | $324K | $406K | 84% | |
| Saint-Clet | $300K | $324K | 78% | 6.9 |
| Très-Saint-Rédempteur | $332K | $364K | 99% | 7.9 |
| Rigaud | $348K | $400K | 77% | 9.2 |
| Saint-Lazare | $500K | $558K | 93% | 9.5 |
| Saint-Polycarpe | $250K | $272K | 76% | 11.2 |
| Hudson | $600K | $728K | 88% | 11.6 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Sainte-Marthe
Is Sainte-Marthe expensive for Quebec?
On census values, Sainte-Marthe ranks among the dearer of Quebec’s towns (median $300,000).
How many households in Sainte-Marthe are in core housing need?
4% of Sainte-Marthe’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.
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).