Understand Boucherville before you commit to an address
Boucherville is forty-two thousand people on the south shore downstream of Longueuil, a 1667 seigneurial village that became a planned suburb in the 1960s, and the site of one of the largest industrial and distribution parks in Quebec. That park is why a municipality with a median detached house of $654,450 charges only 0.3976%: the lowest rate of any South Shore municipality here. Figures come from the province's assessment roll and municipal budget file, measured the same way in all 28 municipalities here. It sits in the Longueuil agglomeration, so part of what an owner pays here funds services set by a council this municipality does not control.
The cost of living in Boucherville, 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 Boucherville
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 Boucherville is the right part of the region
No neighbourhood guides for Boucherville yet. What is here instead is the whole region on one comparable footing.
What buying in Boucherville actually involves
About $2,600 a year on the median detached house, against Saint-Lambert's $8,100 on a house worth two-thirds more, in the same agglomeration. Both demerged from Longueuil in 2006 and both pay the same agglomeration council; the difference is entirely that Boucherville has several hundred hectares of industrial assessment and Saint-Lambert has none. This pairing and the Dorval–Beaconsfield pairing on the island are the two cleanest illustrations of what actually drives the rate table in this region.
The commute is the counterweight and it is a real one. Boucherville has no rail and no metro; the route to the island is the Louis-Hippolyte-La Fontaine tunnel, which has been under a multi-year rehabilitation with lane reductions and is the most reliably congested crossing in the region. The city itself is well provided for (the Îles-de-Boucherville national park, an intact old village, good schools) and a great many households here have simply arranged their working lives to avoid the tunnel.
The industrial park that funds the low rate is also a substantial local employer, so a meaningful share of residents work within the municipality. That is worth weighing against the commute complaint: the drive into Montreal is genuinely poor, and for some households it is not the daily trip.
The old village on the water and the post-1970 subdivisions behind it are two markets in one town. The village is small, old and expensive; the subdivisions are consistent, well-serviced and priced around the town median, which is what the figure on this page describes.
Moving to Boucherville: check these before you commit
- The La Fontaine tunnel at your commuting hour in both directions, and the current state of its rehabilitation programme.
- Whether the property is near the industrial park, which is the tax base and also the truck traffic.
- Which sector of the city, since the old village and the 1970s and 2000s subdivisions are quite different.
- Whether the address is in the old village or in the subdivisions, which are separate markets.
- The realistic drive across the bridge at your commuting hour, since there is no rail alternative.
The 10,188 detached one-dwelling houses on Boucherville'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 Boucherville 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 Boucherville 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