Photo: Susan Drury from Watson Lake, Canada · CC BY 2.094% of Watson Lake’s homes date from 1961 or later
Most towns have 18%, so Watson Lake has 0.3 times as much. The newest homes, 2016 to 2021, are 4% of the total, the typical town 4.1%.
Watson Lake’s building boom came from 1981 to 2000: 44% of its homes
36% of Watson Lake’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980, more than the typical town’s 27%. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up just 10% of Watson Lake’s, against 15% in the typical town. More than half of Watson Lake’s housing predates 2001.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Watson Lake in brief
Most of its homes are post-1960: only 6% 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).