Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 3.0Little is being built in Yamachiche: 2.5 new homes a year per 1,000, against 15.1 for Quebec’s towns
By the 2021 census, half of owned homes were worth more than $200,000; the average was $208,800. A census value is an owner’s guess at a selling price in May 2021, and prices have moved since. For Yamachiche there is no published sale price, as for every town in Quebec. The town’s assessors, on the 2025 roll, put the median house at $260,900 (market of July 1, 2023).
Two ways to price a home in Yamachiche
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
- $209K
- Owners
- 810
- 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).
The roll values plexes in Yamachiche at $236,800, 43% less than across Quebec’s towns
Dwellings on the roll of Yamachiche: 69% in single-family houses, 17% in plexes and 9% in buildings of six units or more. The roll also counts 31 chalets, at a median $128,300.
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.
An older stock than most: 36% of Yamachiche’s homes go back before 1961 (Quebec’s towns: 21%)
Of the 1,210 homes people lived in across Yamachiche at the 2021 census, 73% were single-detached houses.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Yamachiche | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 5% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 7% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 3% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | under 1% | 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.
Permits in Yamachiche peaked in 2018: 16 new homes
Yamachiche issued permits for 31 new homes from 2018 to 2023, or about 5 a year. Houses dominate the permits, at 87% in single-unit buildings (Quebec’s towns: 39%). Yamachiche shares its monthly permits numbers with the rest of the Trois-Rivières metro area.
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Up 4%: 1,647 new homes in the year to August 2026
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.
Yamachiche 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 Yamachiche: Louiseville, Saint-Barnabé and Sainte-Ursule
Next to Yamachiche: 2021 census values and the share of owners.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yamachiche | $200K | $209K | 69% | |
| Louiseville | $176K | $192K | 49% | 8.9 |
| Saint-Barnabé | $150K | $173K | 84% | 10.4 |
| Maskinongé | $200K | $208K | 71% | 15.3 |
| Saint-Étienne-des-Grès | $200K | $229K | 85% | 16.7 |
| Sainte-Ursule | $160K | $173K | 80% | 17.7 |
| Charette | $178K | $190K | 78% | 18.7 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Yamachiche
How many households in Yamachiche are in core housing need?
Fewer than most: under 1% of households in Yamachiche, where Quebec’s towns sit at 3%.
Is Yamachiche expensive for Quebec?
Cheaper than the middle: Quebec’s towns come to $300,000, Yamachiche to less.
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).