D.6 Housing Characteristics

Dwelling Types

Apartments represent the largest group of housing type within the study area. Apartments in buildings that have five storeys or more make up 17% of all dwellings, apartments in buildings under five storeys represent 26% of all homes, and apartments in duplexes take up 10% of all dwellings, and together they represent 53% of all housing stock. The second most common dwellings are single-detached homes, making up 41% of all homes in the study area. In comparison to the City as a whole, where single-detached homes represent 68% of all dwellings.

Notably, Census Tract 27 is the only area in which the percentage of single-detached housing exceeds the proportion of apartments. Seventy-nine percent of homes in Census Tract 27 are made up of single-detached homes, surpassing the City’s figure of 68%. As a result of the overwhelmingly strong presence of single-detached homes, only 19% of the occupied dwellings are apartments in Census Tract 27. Another distinctive area is Census Tract 31. Seventy percent of the housing stock are made up of apartments in Census Tract 31, which is significantly larger than that of the study area.

Most people in the study area live alone or live with only one other person, as these two groups represent 75% of private households. While these two groups also represent the two most common groups in the City as well, taking up 62% of all households, the study area still has a far higher proportion of people living either alone or with only one other person.