Photo: Benoit Rochon · CC BY-SA 3.0Sainte-Martine’s single-family homes are on the roll at 42% more than the median of Quebec’s towns
Going by owners’ own estimates in 2021, the typical home is worth $332,000, the average one $344,000. Sale prices aren’t published in Quebec: what owners told the census is the figure to go on for Sainte-Martine. New building in Sainte-Martine ran at about 28 homes a year between 2018 and 2023.
Sainte-Martine’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. An owner’s figure, not a sale: the census of May 2021 asked what each home would fetch.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $344K
- Owners
- 1,560
- Quebec’s towns
- $300K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
single-family, market at July 1, 2024
- 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).
Duplexes to fiveplexes house 25% of Sainte-Martine, beside 16% for Quebec’s towns
By kind of building, Sainte-Martine’s dwellings on the roll split 56% in single-family houses, 25% in plexes, 9% in condos and 8% in buildings of six units or more.
Median roll value by kind, 2026 the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Dwellings by kind of building
Rôle d’évaluation foncière 2026 (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.
Since 2001: 39% of the homes in Sainte-Martine, where Quebec’s towns have 21%
At the 2021 census, 57% of Sainte-Martine’s 2,405 occupied homes were single-detached houses.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Sainte-Martine | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 15% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 7% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 2% | 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.
Permits in Sainte-Martine ran at 13 homes a year per 1,000, near the 15.1 of Quebec’s towns
40% were single-unit buildings and the rest multi-unit ones, against 39% for Quebec’s towns.
Most in 2022: 66 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-Martine is dearer than most of Quebec’s towns: 11% 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-Martine: Beauharnois
Next to Sainte-Martine: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Martine | $332K | $344K | 67% | |
| Saint-Urbain-Premier | $348K | $382K | 78% | 6 |
| Mercier | $376K | $388K | 81% | 7.6 |
| Très-Saint-Sacrement | $324K | $396K | 84% | 8.2 |
| Saint-Isidore | $376K | $373K | 77% | 8.8 |
| Beauharnois | $300K | $316K | 63% | 8.8 |
| Saint-Étienne-de-Beauharnois | $348K | $374K | 80% | 9.5 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Sainte-Martine
How many households in Sainte-Martine are in core housing need?
2% of Sainte-Martine’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-Martine expensive for Quebec?
More than most: Quebec’s towns have a median of $300,000, and Sainte-Martine sits above it.
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).