Understand Mirabel before you commit to an address
Mirabel is sixty-eight thousand people spread across four hundred and eighty square kilometres of the Basses-Laurentides. The largest municipality by area in this region by a wide margin, formed in 1971 when the federal government expropriated ninety-seven thousand acres of farmland for an airport that never became the one it was meant to be. It charges 0.3270%, the lowest residential rate of these twenty-eight municipalities. 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 Mirabel, 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 Mirabel
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 Mirabel is the right part of the region
No neighbourhood guides for Mirabel yet. What is here instead is the whole region on one comparable footing.
What buying in Mirabel actually involves
About $1,840 a year on a median detached house assessed at $563,550. The lowest municipal bill in this region, less than a twelfth of Westmount's. Mirabel has an unusual base for a suburb: the airport is now a cargo and aerospace hub with Bombardier and Airbus assembly on it, and there is a large industrial park alongside a great deal of agricultural land. That mix funds the town cheaply, and the expropriation history is still the first thing anyone here will tell you about.
The distance is the whole of the other side. Forty-three kilometres from downtown in a straight line is the furthest of these twenty-eight municipalities, there is no rail service at all, and the commute is Highway 15 through Boisbriand and Laval or Highway 50 west. Mirabel is also not one place: Saint-Janvier, Saint-Augustin, Sainte-Scholastique and the rest are separate villages inside one municipality, tens of kilometres apart, and the median assessment above averages across all of them.
The territory is enormous and mostly agricultural, with the population spread across a series of separate sectors that function as small towns rather than as one city. Two addresses in Mirabel can be twenty kilometres and a different set of services apart, which makes the municipal figure on this page unusually abstract.
The airport lands are now a freight and industrial operation with a substantial employment base attached, and the aerospace industry around them is a real local economy. That is the practical reason to be here for many households, rather than a commute to downtown that the distance makes difficult.
Moving to Mirabel: check these before you commit
- Which sector of Mirabel, because the municipality is enormous and its villages are genuinely separate places.
- The commute on Highway 15 at peak, which is long and has no rail alternative.
- Whether the lot is inside the agricultural zone, which covers most of the territory and is permanent, and whether it is on municipal services or well and septic.
- Which sector of the city the address is in, since they are effectively separate small towns.
The 11,380 detached one-dwelling houses on Mirabel'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 Mirabel 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 Mirabel 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