Blainville or Laval: comparison for buyers
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Median prices
| Blainville | Laval |
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| Single-family home |
$835,000148 sales · +11% year over year
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$630,000547 sales · +5% year over year
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| Condo |
last 4 quarters$432,425159 sales · +1% year over year
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$439,999236 sales · +3% year over year
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| Plex (2 to 5 units) |
last 4 quarters$821,56244 sales · +10% year over year
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$890,00065 sales · +2% year over year
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Median price = half of the properties sold for less, the other half for more. The price of a specific property varies.
Source: Centris, Q3 2026 (July to September).
Blainville: City of Blainville. For condos and plexes, Centris does not publish a quarterly price due to too few transactions: the figures cover the last four quarters. (Centris – Blainville statistics)
Laval: City of Laval. Median prices and change compared with the same quarter of 2025. (Centris – Laval statistics)
At a glance
Blainville
- Population (2021 census)
- 59,819 residents (+5.2% since 2016)
- Occupied private dwellings (2021)
- 22,424
- Average home value (2026 budget)
- $710,200
Laval
- Population (2021 census)
- 438,366 residents (+4% since 2016)
- Owner households
- 66.6% (compared with about 60% in Québec)
- Median household income (2020)
- $85,000 before tax
- Sectors
- Created by the merger of 14 municipalities in 1965
Transit
BlainvilleBlainville station is on the exo 12 Saint-Jérôme line; according to exo, the trip to Lucien-L’Allier station, downtown, takes about 1 h 15 min. On weekends, trains end at De la Concorde station in Laval (connection to the metro). exo buses serve the station and neighbourhoods. Highway 15, Route 117 and Highway 640 cross the city.
LavalThe metro’s orange line has three stations in Laval: Cartier, De la Concorde and Montmorency. The exo Saint-Jérôme train line stops at the Vimont, De La Concorde and Sainte-Rose stations. Since November 2025, the REM has served the Île-Bigras and Sainte-Dorothée stations. Highways 15 and 440 cross the island.
Education
BlainvilleCentre de services scolaire des Mille-Îles (including the Henri-Dunant and Lucille-Teasdale secondary schools) and Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board for English-language education. Nearest cégep: Collège Lionel-Groulx, in Sainte-Thérèse.
LavalCégep Montmorency, Université de Montréal’s Laval campus, INRS – Centre Armand-Frappier.
Health
BlainvilleHôpital de Saint-Eustache, which serves the MRC de Thérèse-De Blainville.
LavalHôpital de la Cité-de-la-Santé, Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital.
Welcome tax
BlainvilleSince the 2026 budget, Blainville applies 1.5% from $315,000 to $750,000, then 3% on the portion above $750,000 (rates as of October 2026, for information only). For a house at the median price of $835,000, that comes to about $11,911.
LavalSince 2026, Laval applies a 3% rate on the portion of the price above $500,000 (rates as of October 2026, for information only).
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