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EMBARGOED UNTIL: 12:01 A.M. EDT, JULY 23, 2004 (FRIDAY)

 
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State of Nevada and Atlanta Area Counties Lead in
Housing Growth, Census Bureau Reports

   

     Four of the five states with the largest percentage increases in housing units between April 1, 2000, and July 1, 2003, are in the West, the U.S. Census Bureau reported today.

     Nevada led all states with a 13 percent increase in the number of homes over the 39-month period.
It was followed by Arizona, Colorado and Georgia (all about 9 percent) and Utah (8 percent). (See Table 1. PDF | Excel) Nevada has had the highest annual rate of population growth for 17 consecutive years.

     Texas added about half a million new homes to its housing inventory between 2000 and 2003 to lead the nation in numerical growth. These gains boosted Texas’ housing inventory to 8.7 million in 2003. Florida was a close second, adding 485,000 housing units over the period. California (up 442,000), Georgia (295,000) and North Carolina (257,000) rounded out the top five in this category. (See Table 1. PDF | Excel)

     At the county level, Lincoln, S.D., near Sioux Falls, led with a 31 percent increase in the number of housing units over the period. However, the rest of the top 10 was dominated by counties in the Atlanta metropolitan area — Henry (second), Paulding (third), Newton (sixth) and Forsyth (10th). Loudoun, Va. (fourth) and Douglas, Colo. (fifth) also made the top five, with Rockwall, Texas; Teton, Idaho; and Kendall, Ill., coming in at seventh, eighth and ninth, respectively. (See Table 2. PDF | Excel) Many of these counties also were among the fastest growing in terms of population change.

     Maricopa County, Ariz., which includes Phoenix, was the biggest numerical gainer in the supply of homes, adding 136,000. Clark County (Las Vegas), Nev., and Harris County (Houston), Texas, followed closely, adding 89,000 and 86,000 units, respectively. Rounding out the top 10 counties were two others in Texas (Tarrant and Travis, home of Fort Worth and Austin, respectively), three in southern California (Riverside, San Diego and Los Angeles), and Mecklenburg (Charlotte), N.C., and Miami-Dade, Fla. (See Table 3. PDF | Excel)

     Los Angeles County, Calif., had the largest total number of housing units in 2003, 3.3 million, followed by Cook County (Chicago), Ill., 2.1 million and Maricopa, Ariz., 1.4 million.

     The estimates are based on Census 2000 counts supplemented by administrative records such as building permits.

 

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