Home health · 70 cities · checked September 28, 2026
Lead paint testing across Canada
Swab kits screen painted surfaces; a lab or an X-ray reading confirms before renovation disturbs old paint.
Typical cost: $15–$40 for swab kits
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Each city page covers local prices and rules, the climate and housing stock that shape the job, and who does the work there. The bar under each city shows its houses by construction era, oldest first.
British Columbia
- Vancouver 31% built before 1961
- Surrey 5% built before 1961
- Burnaby 18% built before 1961
- Richmond 4% built before 1961
- Abbotsford 6% built before 1961
- Coquitlam 8% built before 1961
- Kelowna 8% built before 1961
- Langley 4% built before 1961
- Saanich 28% built before 1961
- Delta 8% built before 1961
- Nanaimo 15% built before 1961
- Kamloops 11% built before 1961
- Victoria 59% built before 1961
Ontario
- Toronto 46% built before 1961
- Ottawa 16% built before 1961
- Mississauga 7% built before 1961
- Brampton 3% built before 1961
- Hamilton 34% built before 1961
- London 25% built before 1961
- Markham 3% built before 1961
- Vaughan 2% built before 1961
- Kitchener 20% built before 1961
- Windsor 43% built before 1961
- Oakville 8% built before 1961
- Richmond Hill 5% built before 1961
- Burlington 15% built before 1961
- Oshawa 24% built before 1961
- Greater Sudbury 31% built before 1961
- Barrie 9% built before 1961
- Guelph 20% built before 1961
- Whitby 8% built before 1961
- Cambridge 23% built before 1961
- St. Catharines 36% built before 1961
- Milton 5% built before 1961
- Kingston 24% built before 1961
- Ajax 6% built before 1961
- Waterloo 11% built before 1961
- Thunder Bay 43% built before 1961
- Brantford 35% built before 1961
- Chatham-Kent 42% built before 1961
- Clarington 12% built before 1961
- Pickering 6% built before 1961
- Peterborough 38% built before 1961
Quebec
- Montréal 48% built before 1961
- Québec City 20% built before 1961
- Laval 17% built before 1961
- Gatineau 14% built before 1961
- Longueuil 21% built before 1961
- Sherbrooke 18% built before 1961
- Lévis 14% built before 1961
- Saguenay 26% built before 1961
- Trois-Rivières 21% built before 1961
- Terrebonne 5% built before 1961
- Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu 19% built before 1961
before 1961 1961–1990 1991–2000 2001 or later · Statistics Canada, 2021 Census
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