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Half of these houses came out of the same decade

Indian Creek is small enough that its housing survey is a short list. It counts 34 homes in the village, every one of them a detached house, and 17 of those 34 were built in the 1960s. Numbers this small deserve to be handled honestly: one household here is worth about four points of any share, and a five-year estimate built on a few dozen homes carries a margin that no table on a page like this shows. So read the direction and ignore the decimal. The direction is clear enough to be useful.

What a shared build era buys you is that the second house is easier to plan than the first. Construction of one generation tends to repeat: similar ceiling framing, similar wall build-ups, similar assumptions about what a house would ever be asked to carry, and no expectation of structured cabling in the original design. In-ceiling placement, the route from a rack to the far rooms, and where a speaker can sit without fighting the structure are questions with familiar answers here. Familiar is not the same as confirmed, so they still get checked before positions are agreed.

The occupied homes divide almost evenly between owners and renters

Of the 27 occupied homes, the survey records 13 as owner-occupied and 14 as rented. Treat that as a direction and not a ratio — a single move changes it. But the direction is worth something, because it says this is not a village where the occupant can simply be assumed to be the owner. The person sitting in front of the system may not be the person who commissioned it, and may never have been shown how any of it works.

That is a design instruction, not a caveat. Control has to be legible on sight: a keypad that says what it does, scenes for the way a room is actually used rather than a list of devices, and no step that depends on remembering a sequence somebody explained once. Mounting deserves the same thought, because fixings that come out cleanly are worth more in a house that changes hands than fixings that were merely quick. And a system that is labelled and documented can be picked up by whoever is asked to look at it next.

At this scale the village is not the planning unit; the house is. What the shared era gives you is a good first guess about the structure, which shortens the survey rather than replacing it. What the tenure figures give you is a reason to make the finished system explain itself. Settle the routes, agree what has to disappear, and leave behind something the next person in the room can operate without being taught.