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America’s Homes, Sweet Homes | |||
Number
of Mobile Homes Nears 9 Million; Those in California and Hawaii Most Crowded, Census Bureau Reports |
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The number of mobile homes in the
country increased strikingly since 1950, going from just over 300,000 to
nearly 8.8 million in 2000 — an increase of about 2,700 percent, according
to a new analysis of Census 2000 results released today by the U.S. Census
Bureau. (See Chart 1.) The report, Structural and Occupancy Characteristics of Housing: 2000 [pdf 879kb], said South Carolina and New Mexico had the highest proportion of mobile homes, about 1-in-5. Florida was the numerical leader with more than 800,000, followed by Texas at more than 700,000. The report, part of a series that presents population and housing data collected from Census 2000, examines the number of housing units in a structure, the year the structure was built, the year the householder moved into the unit and the number of people per room. Housing units in California and Hawaii were more crowded than those
in other states. About 15 percent of their occupied homes had more than
one person per room, compared with Nine of the 10 places with 100,000 or more people and the highest percentage of crowded units were in California. Three of them — East Los Angeles, El Monte and Santa Ana — had the highest proportion of any city that size, with about 50 percent of the homes being crowded. Other highlights from the report: • More than 1-in-4 of Nevada’s homes were built between
1995 and March 2000, the • Hawaii and New York topped all states in the proportion of housing in buildings with five or more apartments; about 1-in-3 of the housing units in these states were multiunit buildings. The data are based on responses from the sample of households that received
the census long form, about 1-in-6 nationally. They are subject to sampling
and nonsampling error. |
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