Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Sainte-Pétronille adds housing slowly, at 4.7 new homes a year per 1,000 (Quebec’s towns: 15.1)
A median of $400,000 and a mean of $452,000: that is how owners valued their homes in 2021. Census values are owners’ own estimates, taken in May 2021, before the rise in interest rates. No open sale prices are published in Quebec, so for Sainte-Pétronille the census value is the measure. The municipal roll for 2025 values single-family homes at a median $461,950, at July 1, 2023 prices.
What Sainte-Pétronille’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.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $452K
- Owners
- 415
- Quebec’s towns
- $300K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
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 values plexes in Sainte-Pétronille at $536,650, 30% more than across Quebec’s towns
Dwellings on the roll of Sainte-Pétronille: 82% in single-family houses and 13% in plexes. Chalets add 25 more entries, valued at a median $289,000.
Median roll value by kind, 2025 the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Dwellings by kind of building
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.
96% of Sainte-Pétronille’s homes are detached houses, where Quebec’s towns have 59%
At the 2021 census, Sainte-Pétronille had 465 homes with someone living in them. At least half predate 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Sainte-Pétronille | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | under 1% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | under 1% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | under 1% | 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.
Permits in Sainte-Pétronille peaked in 2020: 5 new homes
Over 2018–2023, 12 homes were permitted in Sainte-Pétronille, close to 2 each year. Houses dominate the permits, at 91% in single-unit buildings (Quebec’s towns: 39%). Behind monthly permits sits data gathered across the Québec metro area, with Sainte-Pétronille one part of it.
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
11,737 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, up 25% on the year before
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-Pétronille against Quebec’s towns: 33% over 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-Pétronille: Chutes-Montmorency, Vieux-Bourg and Saint-Pierre-de-l'Île-d'Orléans
Next to Sainte-Pétronille: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Pétronille | $400K | $452K | 88% | |
| Chutes-Montmorency | $280K | $295K | 50% | 4.7 |
| Vieux-Bourg | $276K | $288K | 52% | 5.4 |
| Saint-Pierre-de-l'Île-d'Orléans | $348K | $364K | 74% | 6.4 |
| Boischatel | $352K | $395K | 90% | 6.5 |
| Saint-Laurent-de-l'Île-d'Orléans | $400K | $440K | 83% | 7.3 |
| Vieux-Moulin | $240K | $265K | 38% | 7.4 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Sainte-Pétronille
How many households in Sainte-Pétronille are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts under 1% of Sainte-Pétronille’s households in core housing need, a smaller share than the 3% of Quebec’s towns.
Is Sainte-Pétronille expensive for Quebec?
Yes: Sainte-Pétronille’s census median is above 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).