Photo: Veillg1 · CC BY-SA 4.0The municipality of Puvirnituq dates from 1952 on Wikidata
Few homes are old by the census: 0% before 1961, against 18%. Building from 2016 to 2021 gave it 11% of its homes, where most towns have 4.1%.
The biggest share of Puvirnituq’s homes dates from 2001 to 2015: 48%
Homes built from 1981 to 2000 make up 36% of Puvirnituq’s, against 23% in the typical town. Only 6.4% of Puvirnituq’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980, less than the typical town’s 27%.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Puvirnituq in brief
Most of its homes are post-1960: only 0% 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).