Photo: R. L'Heureux · CC BY-SA 4.0Homes in Val-Alain are worth 47% less than the median of Quebec’s towns
In figures: $160,000 for the median home in 2021, $300,000 for the middle of Quebec’s towns. A census value is an owner’s guess at a selling price in May 2021, and prices have moved since. Statistics Canada doesn’t publish sales in Quebec, so nothing here says what Val-Alain’s homes actually sold for. On the 2025 property roll, single-family homes have a median of $176,700, valued as of July 1, 2023.
What Val-Alain’s homes are worth, two ways
Every figure here is compared within the province, against Quebec’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $181K
- Owners
- 340
- 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).
In Val-Alain, plexes are on the roll at a median $211,000, 49% below Quebec’s towns
The roll puts Val-Alain’s dwellings at 77% in single-family houses, 8% in plexes and 5% in buildings of six units or more. Chalets add 40 more entries, valued at a median $97,450.
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.
Single-detached houses are 90% of Val-Alain’s homes, against 59% for Quebec’s towns
At the 2021 census, Val-Alain had 440 homes with someone living in them. At least half predate 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Val-Alain | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | under 1% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 6% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | under 1% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 8% | 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.
Val-Alain is 47% 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 Val-Alain: Lyster and Laurierville
Next to Val-Alain: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Val-Alain | $160K | $181K | 81% | |
| Saint-Janvier-de-Joly | $200K | $206K | 83% | 11.2 |
| Lyster | $139K | $150K | 78% | 11.9 |
| Laurierville | $150K | $160K | 87% | 14.7 |
| Saint-Flavien | $224K | $229K | 75% | 18.1 |
| Laurier-Station | $224K | $230K | 69% | 18.1 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Val-Alain
How many households in Val-Alain are in core housing need?
8% of Val-Alain’s households, above the 3% of Quebec’s towns, live in a home that is unaffordable, crowded or in poor repair, with no acceptable one nearby they could afford.
Is Val-Alain expensive for Quebec?
On census values, Val-Alain sits among the cheaper of Quebec’s towns (median $300,000).
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).