Building Types (Single & Duplex, Mid and Highrise, Other)

This map shows the proportion of occupied dwelling units that are in Single Detached, Semi-Detached, Duplex and Movable Dwelling (red), Lowrise, Rowhouses and other Ground-Oriented units (blue) and Mid and Highrise (green). Lowrise is taken as fewer than 5 stories. Note that a single family house with a suite is classified as a duplex in the census, a single family house with two suites is classified as a lowrise apartment building. Comparing this to the corresponding map based on 2006 data and the one based on 2016 data it is interesting to see how little the makeup of housing types have changed in many places. Click in to get a more detailed breakdown of the categories. Zoom, pan and use the search bar to explore different regions and aggregation levels across Canada. The way housing types are mixing varies across Canadian cities. In Vancouver the housing types are mostly kept separate, although lowrise sometimes mix into the single family and duplex zones, partially because of houses with more than one suite. In Toronto we can observe mid and highrise mixing more readily with other building types and in Montreal we see an abundance of areas dominated by lowrise. Calgary's building types are again quite segregated with mid and highrise confined to downtown and a handful of other pockets. We can investigate where highrise and the single detached & duplex housing mix or segregate using this scatter plot. It is interesting to note how little housing diversity there is when zooming in. Compare this to the related map where single detached is singled out and duplex is lumped in with the rowhouses and other ground oriented units.

Author: CensusMapper Team

Dataset: CA11F, CA11N