Photo: abdallahh from Montréal, Canada · CC BY 2.0Sorel-Tracy sits 33% below Quebec’s towns on home values
In figures: $200,000 for the median home in 2021, $300,000 for the middle of Quebec’s towns. Statistics Canada’s housing statistics carry no sale prices in Quebec; the census value stands in for Sorel-Tracy. The municipal roll for 2026 values single-family homes at a median $337,700, at July 1, 2024 prices.
Two ways to price a home in Sorel-Tracy
Every figure here is compared within the province, against Quebec’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms. Self-assessed in May 2021, these values predate the rate rises that followed.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $240K
- Owners
- 10,235
- 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).
26% of Sorel-Tracy’s dwellings are in plexes, where Quebec’s towns have 16%
The roll puts Sorel-Tracy’s dwellings at 54% in single-family houses, 26% in plexes, 17% in buildings of six units or more and 2% in condos.
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.
31% of Sorel-Tracy lives in apartments, where Quebec’s towns have 22%
People lived in 17,070 homes in Sorel-Tracy at the 2021 census. Half went up before 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Sorel-Tracy | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 6% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 6% | 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.
Building behind Quebec’s towns: 9 new homes a year per 1,000 in Sorel-Tracy, against 15.1
Some 146 homes a year: 875 in all were permitted in Sorel-Tracy from 2018 to 2023. Single-unit buildings took 23%, the rest buildings of two or more, against 39% for Quebec’s towns.
A peak in 2023: 245 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.
Sorel-Tracy is 33% below the $300,000 median of Quebec’s towns
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 Sorel-Tracy: Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel
The places around Sorel-Tracy at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sorel-Tracy | $200K | $240K | 60% | |
| Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel | $130K | $157K | 38% | 2.1 |
| Saint-Ignace-de-Loyola | $278K | $299K | 74% | 4.4 |
| Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel | $250K | $289K | 86% | 6.4 |
| Sainte-Anne-de-Sorel | $250K | $288K | 85% | 6.8 |
| Berthierville | $224K | $250K | 40% | 7.8 |
| Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier | $250K | $288K | 81% | 10.4 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Sorel-Tracy
Is Sorel-Tracy expensive for Quebec?
Less than most: Quebec’s towns have a median of $300,000, and Sorel-Tracy sits below it.
How many households in Sorel-Tracy are in core housing need?
In Sorel-Tracy, 4% of households are in core housing need, close to the 3% of Quebec’s towns: those whose home costs too much, is too small or needs major repairs, with nothing suitable nearby under 30% of their income.
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).