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The UK has among the oldest housing stock in Europe, though Belgium and Luxembourg are slightly older. Still, less live in Victorian-era terraced housing blocks than I thought...
In the city centre, mostly from the 1800s. Elsewhere, it depends. Suburbs with older housing stock - generally from the 1800s as well. Suburbs with newer housing stock - mostly 1930s-1950s semidetached housing.
The Cathedral and the castle are the oldest buildings in the city, dating from the late 13th century, but apparently the Danish and Novgorodians didn't appreciate the architecture, as they attempted to burn them down several times.
The older stock of housing is generally from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, few houses remain from the mid 18th century. The rest are mainly from the 1950's and 60's, with only a fraction being newer. The suburbs are a different story, though.
47% of the housing in my town is pre-1940, for the state it's 35%. Vermont is less; 28%. Don't have pre-1920 by station or town, but have them for some big cities and their metros:
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Originally Posted by nei
Let's go older. I dug into some census data. Here's 1919 or earlier for some selected cities:
34.7% — Boston
25.7% — Pittsburgh
22.8% — Philadelphia
21.4% — St. Louis
18.3% — New York
15.9% — Chicago
By metro:
24.5% — Boston
16.9% — Providence, RI
14.3% — New York
13.7% — Pittsburgh
12.5% — Philadelphia
8.2% — Chicago
7.6% — St. Louis
for comparison purposes, London, UK [Greater London municipality, but contains about 2/3rds of the metro depending on definition] has 26% of housing from 1919 and earlier.
Interestingly, a few northeastern metros are higher than some eastern and southern European countries; Spain is only 8%. Despite all our wooden homes, they managed to somehow survive...
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