Photo: Glenlarson~commonswiki · Public domainA younger housing stock: 99% of Slave Lake’s homes are from 1961 on
Slave Lake’s share is 0.1 times the typical 18%. From 2016 to 2021 the town added 4.4% of its homes, against 4.1% in the typical town.
Slave Lake built the most from 2001 to 2015, 39% of today’s homes
Count back from today and half of Slave Lake’s homes are older than 2001. Homes built from 1961 to 1980 make up 28% of Slave Lake’s, about the typical 27%. 28% of Slave Lake’s homes were built from 1981 to 2000, close to the typical town’s 23%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Slave Lake compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 7,300 to 7,400 residents, by places on the registers.
Just these have more: Portage la Prairie, Chandler and Saint-Jude. Their median is 0. 13 of them have none.
Slave Lake and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Slave Lake | 7,334 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Lesser Slave River No. 124 | 2,980 | 0 | 0 | — |
Slave Lake in brief
Pre-1961 homes are a small part of its stock: 1.2%, against 18% in the typical town. Most towns its size have more historic places: the typical one has 0.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Provincial and municipal lists. Outside Québec, provinces’ and municipalities’ heritage registers aren’t open data; their places are known only through Wikidata items with a register number, and only those with an encyclopedia article get a page.
- The federal register. The federal list is complete and open: Parks Canada’s directory for the designations, the Canadian Register of Historic Places for what each one is and why it matters.
- People and events. National historic persons carry no place in the open file. They appear on a town’s page when born there (same name, same birth and death years) or when a historic place inside it carries their name and its record names them with their dates; national historic events don’t appear.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- Protection. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
- The tiers. The highest designations are National Historic Sites, Classified Federal Heritage Buildings and Québec’s classements; then come the other federal designations; then provincial and local listings.
Questions about Slave Lake’s history
How old are the homes in Slave Lake?
The 2021 Census dates 1.2% of its homes before 1961 (18% in the typical town).
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (Parks Canada).
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).