The least diluted older housing in Mississauga
Streetsville is the most house-heavy of the older Mississauga communities, which makes it a better fit for our work than its size suggests. Timothy Street completed the survey of northern Toronto Township in 1819 and acquired a thousand acres, building saw and grist mills on the Credit; the village incorporated in 1858 and became a town in 1962 before joining Mississauga in 1974. The City notes that the first half of the twentieth century brought little change, and then in the 1950s five hundred acres were added to the village and the subdivisions began. That shows clearly in the numbers: 22.5 per cent of dwellings were built between 1946 and 1960, three times the city-wide rate, and 29.2 per cent between 1971 and 1980, with 69.9 per cent predating 1981. Crucially it is 53.3 per cent single-detached with only 13.1 per cent in apartments of five storeys or more, the lowest apartment share of the four older communities, and 76.6 per cent owner-occupied.