City profiles
Poly B across Canada, city by city
Poly B was a national product, but its footprint varies enormously by city depending on when each one grew. These profiles cover Canada’s 119 largest municipalities using Statistics Canada’s 2021 Census build periods.
How to read these numbers
Each city shows the share of its occupied homes built during the 1978 to 1998 Poly B installation window, weighted the same way our address checker scores any address. City averages hide the street-level story: every city below contains subdivisions that are nearly all Poly B era and districts that entirely predate it. For Calgary, Edmonton and Kelowna, the neighbourhood profiles go a level deeper.
Ranked by Poly B era housing share
- Pickering, ON46% of homes in the Poly B window
- Abbotsford, BC42% of homes in the Poly B window
- Repentigny, QC40% of homes in the Poly B window
- Port Coquitlam, BC40% of homes in the Poly B window
- Mississauga, ON39% of homes in the Poly B window
- Vaughan, ON39% of homes in the Poly B window
- Newmarket, ON38% of homes in the Poly B window
- Richmond Hill, ON37% of homes in the Poly B window
- Coquitlam, BC36% of homes in the Poly B window
- Barrie, ON36% of homes in the Poly B window
- Terrebonne, QC36% of homes in the Poly B window
- Maple Ridge, BC36% of homes in the Poly B window
- Aurora, ON36% of homes in the Poly B window
- Surrey, BC35% of homes in the Poly B window
- Richmond, BC35% of homes in the Poly B window
- Whitby, ON35% of homes in the Poly B window
- Ajax, ON35% of homes in the Poly B window
- St. Albert, AB35% of homes in the Poly B window
- Oakville, ON34% of homes in the Poly B window
- Waterloo, ON34% of homes in the Poly B window
- Clarington, ON34% of homes in the Poly B window
- Blainville, QC34% of homes in the Poly B window
- Saint-Eustache, QC34% of homes in the Poly B window
- Markham, ON33% of homes in the Poly B window
- Langley, BC33% of homes in the Poly B window
- Delta, BC33% of homes in the Poly B window
- Nanaimo, BC33% of homes in the Poly B window
- Caledon, ON33% of homes in the Poly B window
- Saanich, BC32% of homes in the Poly B window
- Georgina, ON32% of homes in the Poly B window
- Laval, QC31% of homes in the Poly B window
- Gatineau, QC31% of homes in the Poly B window
- Lévis, QC31% of homes in the Poly B window
- Kelowna, BC31% of homes in the Poly B window
- Vernon, BC31% of homes in the Poly B window
- Halifax, NS30% of homes in the Poly B window
- Burlington, ON30% of homes in the Poly B window
- Strathcona County, AB30% of homes in the Poly B window
- Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC30% of homes in the Poly B window
- Chilliwack, BC30% of homes in the Poly B window
- Prince George, BC30% of homes in the Poly B window
- Ottawa, ON29% of homes in the Poly B window
- Longueuil, QC29% of homes in the Poly B window
- Burnaby, BC29% of homes in the Poly B window
- Cambridge, ON29% of homes in the Poly B window
- Kingston, ON29% of homes in the Poly B window
- Red Deer, AB29% of homes in the Poly B window
- Kamloops, BC29% of homes in the Poly B window
- Saint-Jérôme, QC29% of homes in the Poly B window
- Kawartha Lakes, ON29% of homes in the Poly B window
- Granby, QC29% of homes in the Poly B window
- Rimouski, QC29% of homes in the Poly B window
- Dollard-Des Ormeaux, QC29% of homes in the Poly B window
- Innisfil, ON29% of homes in the Poly B window
- Calgary, AB28% of homes in the Poly B window
- Vancouver, BC28% of homes in the Poly B window
- Brampton, ON28% of homes in the Poly B window
- Québec, QC28% of homes in the Poly B window
- Sherbrooke, QC28% of homes in the Poly B window
- Trois-Rivières, QC28% of homes in the Poly B window
- Brossard, QC28% of homes in the Poly B window
- Drummondville, QC28% of homes in the Poly B window
- West Vancouver, BC28% of homes in the Poly B window
- London, ON27% of homes in the Poly B window
- Saguenay, QC27% of homes in the Poly B window
- Guelph, ON27% of homes in the Poly B window
- North Vancouver, BC27% of homes in the Poly B window
- New Westminster, BC27% of homes in the Poly B window
- Medicine Hat, AB27% of homes in the Poly B window
- North Bay, ON27% of homes in the Poly B window
- Victoriaville, QC27% of homes in the Poly B window
- Saskatoon, SK26% of homes in the Poly B window
- Kitchener, ON26% of homes in the Poly B window
- Halton Hills, ON26% of homes in the Poly B window
- North Vancouver, BC26% of homes in the Poly B window
- Saint-Hyacinthe, QC26% of homes in the Poly B window
- New Tecumseth, ON26% of homes in the Poly B window
- Greater Sudbury / Grand Sudbury, ON25% of homes in the Poly B window
- St. John's, NL25% of homes in the Poly B window
- Moncton, NB25% of homes in the Poly B window
- Grande Prairie, AB25% of homes in the Poly B window
- Châteauguay, QC25% of homes in the Poly B window
- Oshawa, ON24% of homes in the Poly B window
- Lethbridge, AB24% of homes in the Poly B window
- Cape Breton, NS24% of homes in the Poly B window
- Fredericton, NB24% of homes in the Poly B window
- Edmonton, AB23% of homes in the Poly B window
- Hamilton, ON23% of homes in the Poly B window
- Regina, SK23% of homes in the Poly B window
- St. Catharines, ON23% of homes in the Poly B window
- Peterborough, ON23% of homes in the Poly B window
- Wood Buffalo, AB23% of homes in the Poly B window
- Mascouche, QC23% of homes in the Poly B window
- Cornwall, ON23% of homes in the Poly B window
- Quinte West, ON23% of homes in the Poly B window
- Winnipeg, MB22% of homes in the Poly B window
- Thunder Bay, ON22% of homes in the Poly B window
- Brantford, ON22% of homes in the Poly B window
- Niagara Falls, ON22% of homes in the Poly B window
- Victoria, BC22% of homes in the Poly B window
- Sault Ste. Marie, ON22% of homes in the Poly B window
- Sarnia, ON22% of homes in the Poly B window
- Welland, ON22% of homes in the Poly B window
- Brandon, MB22% of homes in the Poly B window
- Woodstock, ON22% of homes in the Poly B window
- Montréal, QC21% of homes in the Poly B window
- Chatham-Kent, ON21% of homes in the Poly B window
- Mirabel, QC21% of homes in the Poly B window
- Belleville, ON21% of homes in the Poly B window
- Shawinigan, QC21% of homes in the Poly B window
- Toronto, ON20% of homes in the Poly B window
- Windsor, ON20% of homes in the Poly B window
- Saint John, NB20% of homes in the Poly B window
- Norfolk County, ON20% of homes in the Poly B window
- Vaudreuil-Dorion, QC20% of homes in the Poly B window
- Whitchurch-Stouffville, ON19% of homes in the Poly B window
- Airdrie, AB17% of homes in the Poly B window
- Langford, BC16% of homes in the Poly B window
- Milton, ON9% of homes in the Poly B window
Sources for these profiles
- Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population, period of construction of occupied private dwellings, census subdivision level
- Statistics Canada, 2021 Census population and dwelling counts
Percentages weight the census construction-period buckets by their overlap with the 1978 to 1998 installation window. City figures describe housing stock, never a specific home.
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