Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Owners in Trois-Rivières value their homes 33% below the median of Quebec’s towns
Owners put the median home at $200,000 at the 2021 census; for Quebec’s towns the median is $300,000. Owners gave those values at the May 2021 census; they are estimates, and older than today’s prices. Statistics Canada’s housing statistics carry no sale prices in Quebec; the census value stands in for Trois-Rivières. The town’s assessors, on the 2025 roll, put the median house at $306,400 (market of July 1, 2023).
What Trois-Rivières’s homes are worth, two ways
Two sources, each set against Quebec’s towns only: provinces measure value differently, so they don’t line up across borders.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $227K
- Owners
- 36,390
- 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).
Duplexes to fiveplexes house 24% of Trois-Rivières, beside 16% for Quebec’s towns
By kind of building, Trois-Rivières’s dwellings on the roll split 45% in single-family houses, 27% in buildings of six units or more, 24% in plexes and 3% in condos. Chalets add 129 more entries, valued at a median $84,300.
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.
41% of Trois-Rivières lives in apartments, where Quebec’s towns have 22%
The 2021 census counted 66,820 occupied homes in Trois-Rivières. At least half predate 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Trois-Rivières | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 10% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 6% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 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 at the pace of Quebec’s towns: 14 new homes a year per 1,000 in Trois-Rivières, against 15.1
From 2018 to 2023, permits in Trois-Rivières created 5,388 homes, about 898 a year. Only 15% went into single-unit buildings, beside 39% for Quebec’s towns.
A peak in 2023: 1,326 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
1,647 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, up 4% 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. · Monthly permits published for the Trois-Rivières metro area, not by town
Trois-Rivières is cheaper than most of Quebec’s towns: 33% 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 Trois-Rivières: Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel
The places around Trois-Rivières at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trois-Rivières | $200K | $227K | 55% | |
| Saint-Maurice | $200K | $215K | 81% | 11.6 |
| Bécancour | $200K | $229K | 75% | 11.7 |
| Nicolet | $200K | $229K | 64% | 13.7 |
| Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel | $180K | $205K | 88% | 15.9 |
| Champlain | $250K | $303K | 80% | 17 |
| Saint-Étienne-des-Grès | $200K | $229K | 85% | 17.3 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Trois-Rivières
Is Trois-Rivières expensive for Quebec?
Less than most: Quebec’s towns have a median of $300,000, and Trois-Rivières sits below it.
How many households in Trois-Rivières are in core housing need?
About as many as elsewhere: 4% of households in Trois-Rivières, where Quebec’s towns sit at 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).