Understand Dollard-des-Ormeaux before you commit to an address
Dollard-des-Ormeaux is fifty thousand people and the biggest of the demerged West Island municipalities. A suburb built almost in one go between 1960 and 1985, laid out in crescents and cul-de-sacs north of Highway 40, with no old village at its centre because it never had one. It is the West Island's family suburb and it is priced as one. 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 Montréal 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 Dollard-des-Ormeaux, 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 Dollard-des-Ormeaux
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 Dollard-des-Ormeaux is the right part of the region
No neighbourhood guides for Dollard-des-Ormeaux yet. What is here instead is the whole region on one comparable footing.
What buying in Dollard-des-Ormeaux actually involves
The rate of 0.6621% on a median detached house of $734,000 puts the bill near $4,900, which is high for the West Island and reflects a tax base that is mostly houses with a modest commercial strip along Sources and Saint-Jean. The city has more parkland per resident than most of the island and a genuinely good recreation network, which is what the money goes to and what keeps families here through school years.
The structural weakness is transit. Dollard-des-Ormeaux has no station of any kind (not an exo line, not the REM) and its street pattern of crescents and cul-de-sacs is close to the worst case for bus service. Almost every household here runs two cars, and the commute is Highway 40 or Saint-Jean to a station. Model that honestly, because it is the single biggest recurring cost this page does not put a number on.
Almost the entire city was built in a twenty-five year window, which means the housing is consistent in age and is now reaching the point where roofs, windows, foundations drains and original electrical panels all need attention. The upside of that uniformity is that a city-wide figure describes an actual house here better than it does in most municipalities.
The city runs a large park and recreation network and its own library, and the residential character has been protected against commercial encroachment. That combination is what families move here for, and it is also why there is little in the way of a walkable centre.
Moving to Dollard-des-Ormeaux: check these before you commit
- The commute in practice: which station you would drive to, and whether there is parking at it at the hour you would arrive.
- The age of the house's major systems, since most of this city was built in a twenty-five year window and is now reaching the same renewal point at once.
- Whether the property is inside one of the city's newer sectors or the original 1960s grid, which differ in lot size and in price.
- The age of the roof, windows and electrical panel, since this city's stock is aging in step.
- How you would actually reach a station or a bus corridor, because the city has neither inside it.
The 10,002 detached one-dwelling houses on Dollard-des-Ormeaux's 2026 roll are what the median above describes. The roll was built against market conditions on 1 July 2024 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 Dollard-des-Ormeaux 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 Dollard-des-Ormeaux 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