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| Type of housing unit | Third Quarter 2007 | Third Quarter 2008 | ||||
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| United States | Inside Metropolitan Statistical Areas | Outside Metropolitan Statistical Areas | United States | Inside Metropolitan Statistical Areas | Outside Metropolitan Statistical Areas | |
| All housing units | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| Year-round vacant | 10.4 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 10.6 | 10.3 | 12.2 |
| For rent | 3.0 | 3.2 | 2.1 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 2.3 |
| For sale only | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 1.8 | 1.4 |
| Rented or sold, awaiting occupancy | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.8 |
| Held off market | 4.8 | 4.3 | 7.3 | 5.0 | 4.4 | 7.7 |
| For occasional use | 1.5 | 1.2 | 3.0 | 1.6 | 1.2 | 3.2 |
| Temporarily occupied by persons with usual residence elsewhere | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.9 |
| For other reasons | 2.4 | 2.2 | 3.5 | 2.6 | 2.4 | 3.6 |
| Seasonal vacant | 3.6 | 2.2 | 9.8 | 3.7 | 2.3 | 10.1 |
| Occupied | 86.0 | 87.7 | 78.5 | 85.7 | 87.5 | 77.7 |
| Footnotes Percent distribution may not add to total, due to rounding. (NA) Not available. NOTE: Metropolitan Statistical Area data for 2005 and later are not comparable to earlier data. Beginning in first quarter 2005, the Current Population Survey/Housing Vacancy Survey is using the new metropolitan and micropolitan statisitcal definitions which were announced by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in June 2003, and were based on the application of the 2000 standards to Census 2000 data. OMB announced updates as of December 2003, based on application of the 2000 standards to more recent Census Bureau estimates. In this report, outside Metropolitan Statistical Areas includes micropolitan and non-metropolitan statistical areas. The December 2003 definitions are available at http://www.census.gov/population/www/estimates/metrodef.html and http://www.census.gov/population/www/estimates/aboutmetro.html. |
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| Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division | ||||||
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