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Property prices in Varennes · Census 2021 and Statistics Canada

On Québec’s property roll, houses in Varennes are valued 48% above the median of Quebec’s towns

The 2021 census put the median home at $400,000, with an average of $421,200. What homes sold for in Varennes isn’t public: no sale figures are released in Quebec.

Median home value
$400K
owners’ estimate, census 2021
average $421K
Property roll value
$524K
single-family homes, roll 2025
market at July 1, 2023
Owner households
6,625
census 2021
79% of households
What homes are worth

Two ways to price a home in Varennes

Every figure here is compared within the province, against Quebec’s towns, since each province assesses on its own terms. Treat the values as owners’ May 2021 guesses: they are self-reported, and they come from before rates went up.

Census 2021$400K

median, owners’ estimate

Average
$421K
Owners
6,625
Quebec’s towns
$300K
The typical Canadian town
$406K
Property roll 2025$524K

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 by kind

Varennes’s plexes have a median roll value of $629,200, 52% over Quebec’s towns

On Varennes’s roll, the dwellings sit 68% in single-family houses, 14% in plexes, 9% in buildings of six units or more and 8% in condos.

Value by kind

Median roll value by kind, 2025 the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns

Detached houses$538K
Semi-detached and row$439K
Condos$296K
Plexes (2–5 units), a building$629K
Chalets$6K
Dwellings on the roll

Dwellings by kind of building

Single-family houses68%
Condos8%
Plexes14%
Buildings of 6+ units9%
1988
year the median house was built (Quebec’s towns: 1981)
6%
of dwellings built since 2016
8,769
dwellings on the roll

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

The homes of Varennes, by period and type

Of the 8,410 homes people lived in across Varennes at the 2021 census, 63% were single-detached houses. The older half dates from before 2001.

When they were built

Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns

Before 19618%
1961–198023%
1981–200051%
2001–201515%
2016–20213%
What kind of home

Homes by kind

Single-detached houses63%
Semi-detached houses8%
Row houses2%
Flats in a duplex2%
Apartments, under 5 storeys25%
Against the median town of the province and of Canada
VarennesQuebecCanada
Condominiums13%8%8%
Needing major repairs4%6%6%
Too small for the household2%2%3%
Households in core housing need3%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.

Across Quebec

Varennes is dearer than most of Quebec’s towns: 33% above their $300,000 median

The census values of Quebec’s towns, 510 of them with 2,500+ people, from dearest to cheapest.

Median value, census 2021

Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.

Cheaper next to Varennes: Pointe-aux-Trembles, Charlemagne and Montréal-Est

Next to Varennes: 2021 census values and the share of owners.

Pointe-aux-TremblesCharlemagneMontréal-EstBouchervilleRepentignyRivière-des-PrairiesPointe-aux-TremblesCharlemagneMontréal-EstBouchervilleRepentignyRivière-des-PrairiesVarennes
Prices next door
TownMedian home valueAverageOwnerskm
Varennes$400K$421K79%
Pointe-aux-Trembles$348K$337K56%5.7
Charlemagne$300K$305K53%7.4
Montréal-Est$348K$363K37%7.9
Boucherville$484K$529K84%8.6
Repentigny$348K$362K77%9.7
Rivière-des-Prairies$400K$437K80%10.2

Census 2021 values; km.

Questions about property prices in Varennes

Is Varennes expensive for Quebec?

Yes: Varennes’s census median is above the $300,000 of Quebec’s towns.

How many households in Varennes are in core housing need?

Statistics Canada puts 3% of Varennes’s households in core housing need, much as for Quebec’s towns (3%).

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).