Photo: ipatboy (Patrick) · CC BY-SA 2.0Homes in Sayabec are worth 58% less than the median of Quebec’s towns
In figures: $125,000 for the median home in 2021, $300,000 for the middle of Quebec’s towns. No open sale prices are published in Quebec, so for Sayabec the census value is the measure. The town’s assessors, on the 2025 roll, put the median house at $140,200 (market of July 1, 2023).
Two ways to price a home in Sayabec
Every figure here is compared within the province, against Quebec’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms. Owners gave those values at the May 2021 census; they are estimates, and older than today’s prices.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $134K
- Owners
- 565
- 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).
Sayabec’s plexes have a median roll value of $153,750, 63% under Quebec’s towns
Dwellings on the roll of Sayabec: 67% in single-family houses, 14% in plexes and 11% in buildings of six units or more. Chalets add 44 more entries, valued at a median $108,300.
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.
Before 1961: 41% of the homes in Sayabec, where Quebec’s towns have 21%
Sayabec had 815 occupied homes at the 2021 census, 75% of them single-detached houses.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Sayabec | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 7% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 7% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 1% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 10% | 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.
Sayabec against Quebec’s towns: 58% under the $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.
Sayabec’s neighbours by home value
The places around Sayabec at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own. Sayabec has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 21–29 km out.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sayabec | $125K | $134K | 70% | |
| Amqui | $180K | $193K | 66% | 21.3 |
| Saint-Ulric | $150K | $154K | 87% | 25.1 |
| Sainte-Angèle-de-Mérici | $125K | $146K | 76% | 28.7 |
| Lac-au-Saumon | $130K | $146K | 73% | 29.4 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Sayabec
Is Sayabec expensive for Quebec?
No: Sayabec’s census median is below the $300,000 of Quebec’s towns.
How many households in Sayabec are in core housing need?
Above the norm for Quebec’s towns (3%): 10% in Sayabec, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.
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).