Photo: Gaétan Veillette · CC BY-SA 4.0For every 1,000 homes, Verchères permitted only 3.1 new ones a year; Quebec’s towns permitted 15.1
In May 2021 the median owned home was worth $348,000 by its owner’s reckoning, the average one $382,400. What homes sold for in Verchères isn’t public: no sale figures are released in Quebec. The municipal roll for 2025 values single-family homes at a median $454,700, at July 1, 2023 prices.
What Verchères’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 asks owners what their home would sell for, so the values are estimates from May 2021.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $382K
- Owners
- 1,815
- 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).
17% of Verchères’s dwellings are in plexes, where Quebec’s towns have 16%
Dwellings on the roll of Verchères: 69% in single-family houses, 17% in plexes, 12% in buildings of six units or more and 3% in condos.
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.
Verchères’s homes: when they went up and what they are
Of the 2,400 homes people lived in across Verchères at the 2021 census, 71% were single-detached houses. Half went up before 1981.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Verchères | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 7% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 7% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 1% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 5% | 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.
Verchères’s busiest year for permits was 2021, with 11 new homes
Over 2018–2023, 41 homes were permitted in Verchères, close to 7 each year. About 49% went into single-unit buildings, where Quebec’s towns built 39%.
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Up 19%: 31,370 new homes in the year to August 2026
Source area for monthly permits: the Montréal metro area
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.
Verchères is dearer than most of Quebec’s towns: 16% above their $300,000 median
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 Verchères: Saint-Sulpice, L'Assomption and Charlemagne
The places around Verchères at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Verchères | $348K | $382K | 77% | |
| Saint-Sulpice | $298K | $319K | 79% | 6.2 |
| Repentigny | $348K | $362K | 77% | 7.3 |
| L'Assomption | $328K | $347K | 74% | 10 |
| Charlemagne | $300K | $305K | 53% | 11.8 |
| Varennes | $400K | $421K | 79% | 12.1 |
| Lavaltrie | $280K | $310K | 76% | 13.1 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Verchères
How many households in Verchères are in core housing need?
In line with Quebec’s towns (3%): 5% in Verchères, counting the households whose home falls short on cost, size or repair.
Is Verchères expensive for Quebec?
Above the norm for Quebec’s towns, whose median home is worth $300,000; Verchères’s is worth more.
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).