Building Types

This map shows the dwelling units by primary residence status and structural type of dwelling for each dwelling unit used as primary residence (aka "occupied by usual residents"). A "Single Detached" house is free standing house with only one dwelling unit in it. An example is what's commonly known as a "single family home" without any suites, laneway houses are another example. "Semi Detached" houses are commonly know as side-by-side or front-to-back duplexes, whereas buildings with two units with more complex or up-down divisions are classified as "duplex" in the census. A building with more than two units, like a multiplex, a single family house with two or more suites or an low-rise apartment building are classified as a "Apartment, fewer than 5 stories". These definitions are not perfect and floating at times, with the same buildings at times getting classified differently in consecutive censuses. The census only breaks out the structural type of units that are occupied (by usual residents), so we don't know the structural type of units that are not used as primary residence. For example a single family home with suite where a household lives in the main house and the suite empty is counted as 1 duplex unit (it would be counted as 2 if the suite was also occupied). A single family home that is not occupied does not appear in the census unit count.

Author: CensusMapper Team

Dataset: CA16