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Inner city · South-West, Montréal

Ville-Émard

A village-like pocket of duplexes with a high share of seniors

  • Families with kids
  • Seniors
  • Quiet streets
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Ville-Émard in context. Neighbouring areas link to their guides. Boundaries: Ville de Montréal.

At a glance

Ville-Émard is a quiet residential area with brick duplexes and triplexes, a village feel on Jolicoeur and the Green line, and a larger share of seniors. It is in the borough of Le Sud-Ouest.

Median home value (est.)
$675K*
* est.: 2021 census, indexed to September 2026 · city $611K
Residents
13,826
2021 census
Households renting
64%
city 64%
Homes that are apartments
35%
city 73%

What the numbers mean

  • Owners valued the median home at $552K in the 2021 census. Indexed to September 2026 prices with the Montréal CMA MLS® Home Price Index (+22% since then), that is about $675K, 10% above the Montréal median of $611K. It is an estimate: the index tracks the whole region, not this neighbourhood.
  • 64% of households rent, close to the 64% city-wide.
  • Housing is a mix: 35% apartments, with the rest townhouses, duplexes and houses.

Who lives here

Share of residents by age, 2021 census.

0-1414%
15-194%
20-247%
25-3418%
35-4415%
45-5412%
55-6413%
65+18%

Homes

Share of homes by type, 2021 census.

Single-detached2%
Semi-detached1%
Row house8%
Duplex flat54%
Apartment under 5 storeys32%
Apartment 5+ storeys3%

Upfront closing costs1

Quebec buyers pay a tiered transfer duty (the welcome tax) to the municipality, set by each city. Montréal's rate rises from 0.5% to 4%. Government fees at the median home price: This uses the census home value indexed to September 2026 prices, so treat it as an estimate.

Montréal transfer duties (welcome tax)
$8,850
on $675K

Typical apartment rent nearby2

Ville-Émard sits in CMHC's Sud-Ouest/Verdun survey zone. October 2025 average rent of purpose-built rental apartments in that zone:

Studio
$1,061
+$56 vs metro average
1 bedroom
$1,201
+$70 vs metro average
2 bedroom
$1,344
−$2 vs metro average
3 bedroom or more
$1,588
−$37 vs metro average

How it's changing

Montréal doesn't publish building permits by neighbourhood, so we can't chart construction here yet.

Safety3

Reported incidents in the last 12 months (October 2025 to September 2026), per 1,000 residents, compared with the median of 77 Montréal neighbourhoods.

Reported crime
9.0
per 1,000 · close to the 8.7 median
Violent crime
1.2
per 1,000 · median 0.8
Property crime
7.8
per 1,000 · median 8.1
  • Reported crime runs close to the median Montréal neighbourhood: 9.0 incidents per 1,000 residents a year, versus 8.7.
  • Montréal police don't publish assaults in their open data, so the violent figure here only covers robbery and offences causing death.
  • The most common reported crime is theft from vehicles, 44% of the total. 87% of incidents are property crime.
  • Reported crime has risen since 2020 (106 to 197 incidents a year).
  • So far in 2026 (January to September) there have been 100 incidents, 42% fewer than the same months of 2025.

What gets reported

Top crime types in the rate, same period.

Theft from vehicles44%
Break-in30%
Vehicle theft14%
Robbery12%

Other reported incidents

Counted by police but left out of the rate, same period.

Mischief and vandalism
44

Reported crime by year

*2026 is year to date.

Sources and notes

  1. Source: Ville de Montréal, How property transfer duties are calculated. 2026 rules, applied to this community's median census home value, indexed to September 2026 with the MLS® HPI. Brackets are Montréal's for 2026 and are adjusted every year. Legal fees, title insurance, inspection and adjustments are extra. ↩
  2. Source: CMHC Rental Market Survey, Housing Market Information Portal. These are zone averages across all units in apartment buildings of three or more units, not a figure for Ville-Émard alone, and they are not asking rents. Houses, basement suites and condos rented out by owners are not included. Zones are large, so neighbouring communities can share one figure. ↩
  3. Source: Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM), Actes criminels open data (2020 to 2026). Rates use 2021 census population. Incidents are counted where they occur. Police services count crime differently, so compare with the local median rather than across cities. How we calculate this. ↩