Eau Claire: Age of Housing

The survey, which produced this data, started in the oldest parts of Eau Claire and went out in all directions.  It covered housing characteristics for about 110 years, from the 1870s to the 1970s.  The newest, suburban areas are not included.  Except in the 1920s and 1950s, each decade contributed less than 10 percent of the houses in Eau Claire.  Very few of the oldest (1860s) houses are still standing; hence they represent only 2 percent of all houses in the city.
 

Click on decades to see the spatial distribution of the age of housing   1860-1899   1900-1939   1940-1970

Compare Age of Housing in Eau Claire with the U.S.
 
 

 Christine Cronk-Gulcynski June 27, 1996.  Graphs by Brian Meyer, Preston Johnson, and Tanya Jorgenson on June 9, 1997.