Photo: Robert Garry · CC BY-SA 4.0Permits in Sept-Îles added just 2.6 homes a year for every 1,000, where Quebec’s towns added 15.1
The middle home was worth $220,000 at the 2021 census, the average $231,600. Statistics Canada doesn’t publish sales in Quebec, so nothing here says what Sept-Îles’s homes actually sold for. The town’s assessors, on the 2025 roll, put the median house at $270,100 (market of July 1, 2023).
Two ways to price a home in Sept-Îles
Each source sits beside its own median for Quebec’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. Keep in mind these are owners’ estimates from the 2021 census, not recorded sales.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $232K
- Owners
- 7,440
- 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 semi-detached and row houses in Sept-Îles at $223,500, 30% less than across Quebec’s towns
On Sept-Îles’s roll, the dwellings sit 45% in single-family houses, 24% in buildings of six units or more and 14% in plexes. There are 445 chalets on it too, with a median of $82,700.
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.
The homes of Sept-Îles, by period and type
Sept-Îles had 11,270 occupied homes at the 2021 census, 48% of them single-detached houses. Half went up before 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Sept-Îles | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 4% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 7% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 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.
The peak came in 2021, when Sept-Îles permitted 37 new homes
Over 2018–2023, 157 homes were permitted in Sept-Îles, close to 26 each year. Houses dominate the permits, at 85% in single-unit buildings (Quebec’s towns: 39%).
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.
Sept-Îles is cheaper than most of Quebec’s towns: 27% under their $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 Sept-Îles: Port-Cartier, Sainte-Anne-des-Monts and Saint-Maxime-du-Mont-Louis
The places around Sept-Îles at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own. No closer places have figures: these lie 42–143 km from Sept-Îles.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sept-Îles | $220K | $232K | 66% | |
| Port-Cartier | $160K | $178K | 72% | 42.1 |
| Sainte-Anne-des-Monts | $150K | $162K | 68% | 121.9 |
| Saint-Maxime-du-Mont-Louis | $100K | $122K | 81% | 126.8 |
| Cap-Chat | $120K | $146K | 76% | 127.1 |
| Grande-Vallée | $150K | $167K | 76% | 142.5 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Sept-Îles
Is Sept-Îles expensive for Quebec?
Cheaper than the middle: Quebec’s towns come to $300,000, Sept-Îles to less.
How many households in Sept-Îles are in core housing need?
Statistics Canada puts 4% of Sept-Îles’s households in core housing need, much as for Quebec’s towns (3%).
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).