How common is Poly B in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland?
The straight answer
Very common outside the pre-war core: census data puts 26 to 42 percent of housing stock in the Poly B era window across Lower Mainland cities. Abbotsford tops the region at 42 percent, with Coquitlam, Maple Ridge, Surrey and Richmond all at 35 percent or more.
The longer version
More common than most people expect. By 2021 census construction periods, the share of homes built in the 1978 to 1998 window runs 26 to 42 percent across the region: Abbotsford 42, Coquitlam and Maple Ridge 36, Surrey and Richmond 35, Chilliwack 30, Burnaby 29, Vancouver 28. The suburbs that boomed in the eighties and nineties are the hot zones. Check your own street with the address checker, or browse the neighbourhood profiles for Vancouver, Burnaby, Surrey, Coquitlam, Maple Ridge and Abbotsford.
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