Housing stock

Description

A home is a house, an apartment, a mobile home or trailer, a group of rooms, or a single room occupied as separate living quarters, or if vacant, intended for occupancy as separate living quarters.

A home is defined as an owner household if the owner or co-owner lives in the unit, even if it is mortgaged or not fully paid for. The owner households in this data set do not include vacant units for sale.

All occupied units which are not owner units, whether they are rented for cash rent or occupied without payment of cash rent, are classified as renter households. The renter  households in this data set do not include vacant units for rent.

Seasonal homes are homes used or intended for use only in certain seasons or for occasional use throughout the year. If a home is occupied by someone for less than two months of  the year, or if it's occupant has a primary residence elsewhere, the home is considered to be seasonal units by the Census Bureau. Interval ownership units, such as timesharing condominiums, are included in this category. 

All other homes are classified as vacant by the Census Bureau. This includes: homes for sale or rent that are not currently occupied, nearly completed homes under construction/renovation, dilapidated homes in need of repair to be hospitable, homes in foreclosure,  a small number of homes used for migrant farm workers, and any other vacant home.

Related Pages on HousingData.org

Residential building type

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