Opportunity No. 17’s housing: 99% built from 1961 on

For Opportunity No. 17, that is 0.1 times the typical town’s share, 18%. From 2016 to 2021 the town added 3.7% of its homes, against 4.1% in the typical town.

Homes by age

Opportunity No. 17’s building boom came from 2001 to 2015: 42% of its homes

More than half of Opportunity No. 17’s housing predates 2001. Only 14% of Opportunity No. 17’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980, less than the typical town’s 27%. Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up 38% of Opportunity No. 17’s, against 23% in the typical town.

1.4%

Before 1961

14%

1961–80

38%

1981–2000

42%

2001–15

3.7%

2016–21

Opportunity No. 17Typical town

2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.

In brief

Opportunity No. 17 in brief

Most of its homes are post-1960: only 1.4% came earlier, against 18% in the typical town.

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Sources: Parks Canada, Directory of Federal Heritage Designations · Canadian Register of Historic Places (federal extract) · Wikidata (CC0) for map points, other names and articles · Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (homes by period of construction). Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).