Photo: Gaétan Veillette · CC BY-SA 4.017% of households in Shawville are in core housing need, against 3% for Quebec’s towns
A median of $200,000 and a mean of $250,000: that is how owners valued their homes in 2021. There is no public record of sale prices in Quebec, which leaves the census value as the guide for Shawville. The municipal roll for 2024 values single-family homes at a median $236,100, at July 1, 2022 prices.
What Shawville’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. The census figure is the owner’s own reckoning of value in May 2021; actual sale prices may differ.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $250K
- Owners
- 460
- 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).
Built in 1962: the median house in Shawville, where Quebec’s towns sit at 1981
On Shawville’s roll, the dwellings sit 69% in single-family houses, 16% in plexes and 15% in buildings of six units or more.
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.
Major repairs needed: 15% of the homes in Shawville, where Quebec’s towns have 6%
The 2021 census counted 750 occupied homes in Shawville; 75% of them are single-detached houses. Half or more were standing by 1980.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Shawville | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 4% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 15% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 5% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 17% | 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.
Shawville is 33% below the $300,000 median of Quebec’s towns
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.
Home values around Shawville
The places around Shawville at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
Questions about property prices in Shawville
Is Shawville expensive for Quebec?
No: Shawville’s census median is below the $300,000 of Quebec’s towns.
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).