Provided is an epitaxial silicon carbide single-crystal substrate in which a silicon carbide epitaxial film having excellent in-plane uniformity of doping density is disposed on a silicon carbide single-crystal substrate having an off angle that is between 1° to 6°. The epitaxial film is grown by repeating a dope layer that is 0.5 μm or less and a non-dope layer that is 0.1 μm or less. The dope layer is formed with the ratio of the number of carbon atoms to the number of silicon atoms (C/Si ratio) in a material gas being 1.5 to 2.0, and the non-dope layer is formed with the C/Si ratio being 0.5 or more but less than 1.5. The resulting epitaxial silicon carbide single-crystal substrate comprises a high-quality silicon carbide epitaxial film, which has excellent in-plane uniformity of doping density, on a silicon carbide single-crystal substrate having a small off angle.