Understand Blainville before you commit to an address
Blainville is sixty-two thousand people on the Rive-Nord north of Laval, a suburb built out from the 1970s along the Highway 15 corridor, with the highest median detached assessment of the seven Laval and Rive-Nord municipalities on this list at $650,200. It charges 0.4793%, which is low for that level of assessment. Figures come from the province's assessment roll and municipal budget file, measured the same way in all 28 municipalities here.
The cost of living in Blainville, and what a home costs
Two calculators on Quebec's own rules: semi-annual compounding and the real minimum down payment tiers, and the closing costs this province actually charges.
Rent or buy in Blainville
Whether buying here beats renting, and the year it turns over. Both households start with the same cash, so the comparison is not rigged either way.
Mortgage calculator
Semi-annual compounding, the CMHC premium under twenty percent down, and the 9% Quebec sales tax charged on it in cash at closing, the highest in the country.
Then work out whether Blainville is the right part of the region
No neighbourhood guides for Blainville yet. What is here instead is the whole region on one comparable footing.
What buying in Blainville actually involves
About $3,100 a year on the median detached house: less than Laval pays on a cheaper house, and less than half what Beaconsfield pays on a comparable one. Blainville has a substantial commercial and light-industrial base along the 15 and the 640, and it has grown in a planned way rather than an improvised one, which shows in both the rate and the streets. Like Repentigny, part of its levy is special taxes rather than the general rate.
The Saint-Jérôme exo line runs through here to Parc and Lucien-L'Allier, and Highway 15 is the road option; both are peak-constrained and neither is fast. What the town has built instead is a very complete local environment. An equestrian park, a large recreation network, retail that means most errands stay north of the river. This is a car-centred, family-centred suburb and it is one of the better-executed examples of the type in this region.
The city has a large equestrian and recreational land base and a set of newer, more expensive subdivisions than most of the Rive-Nord, which is why its typical value sits where it does. It also has a substantial industrial park along the highway that carries part of the levy.
As with the rest of this corridor, the commute divides sharply between those who use the train and those who use the highway. The station serves one part of the city and the rest is a drive to it, so the address decides which of those two commutes you actually have.
Moving to Blainville: check these before you commit
- Highway 15 and the Saint-Jérôme line timetable, both of which are the commute and both of which are peak-constrained.
- The special tax components of the bill alongside the general rate.
- Which sector, since the 1970s core and the newer eastern subdivisions differ in age, lot size and price.
- The distance from the address to the station, since the city is large and the station serves one area.
- The association or developer arrangements in the newer subdivisions, where they exist.
The 13,933 detached one-dwelling houses on Blainville's 2026 roll are what the median above describes. The roll was built against market conditions on 1 July 2023 and is fixed for three years, so it is a market value rather than a current one.
Sourced, dated, and separated from the guesswork
Every Blainville figure below is cited, stamped with the period it describes, and editable, because a number for the whole city rarely describes your purchase. Appreciation and investment returns are assumptions rather than facts, and they are labelled that way. Read the methodology for how the line is drawn.
- Prices, rents and tax rates: published statistics and the official schedules.
- Nothing here is a lender quote, a pre-approval or financial advice.
Where the Blainville figures come from
- Rôles d'évaluation foncière du Québec: rôle 2026, fichiers par municipalité · Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation, via Données Québec · retrieved Supports: Every property on the 2026 assessment roll of each of these municipalities, with its predominant use, its number of dwellings, its physical link and its value, The median detached one-dwelling residence in each municipality, computed identically across all twenty-eight, The market conditions date each roll was built against: 1 July 2023 for twelve of them and 1 July 2024 for sixteen
- Rapport financier des organismes municipaux: données prévisionnelles non auditées 2026, Simple occurrence · Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation · retrieved Supports: The 2026 residential property tax rate adopted by each municipality, in dollars per $100 of assessment, Special rates for debt service, operating and investment activities where a municipality levies them, under the taux-unique code as well as the taux-variés résiduelle one, The 2026 decree population of each municipality, The adopted-rate file itself rather than the dataset page that lists it, so the next reconciliation is a fetch rather than a search
- Données prévisionnelles non auditées 2026: description des postes · Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation · retrieved Supports: Which code carries which adopted rate: general CPALB01724 taux unique or CPALB01726 taux variés résiduelle, debt CPALB01736 or CPALB01738, operating CPALB01747 or CPALB01749, investment CPALB01758 or CPALB01760, That a special rate adopted at a single rate is recorded under a different code from one adopted per property class, which is the distinction this layer reads both halves of
- Rental Market Survey, Montréal CMA: October 2025 · Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation · retrieved Supports: An average two-bedroom rent of about $1,200 across the purpose-built stock of the Montreal CMA, A vacancy rate of 2.9%, Survey zones that do not correspond to municipal boundaries, which is why this layer carries one regional figure rather than twenty-eight
- Réorganisation municipale: les municipalités reconstituées et le conseil d'agglomération · Gouvernement du Québec, Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation · retrieved Supports: The reconstitution of fifteen municipalities on the island of Montreal and four in the Longueuil agglomeration on 1 January 2006, The division between local competences and agglomeration competences. Police, fire, water production, arterial roads and public transit, The agglomeration council's power to set the levy that funds them
- Regulations amending the Insurable Housing Loan Regulations and the Eligible Mortgage Loan Regulations (SOR/2025-55) · Canada Gazette, Part II · retrieved Supports: The $1.5 million insured price cap, which only three of these twenty-eight municipalities' median detached houses exceed, 30-year insured amortization for first-time buyers and new builds