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Characteristics of Residential Housing Units by Ceiling Fans

In 2001, there were 107.0 million residential households in the United States; 69.6 million of these households or 65.1 percent had ceiling fans.  This was a 14.1 percent increase over the 61.0 million households with ceiling fans that was reported in the1997 RECS.  There were a total of 192.8 million ceiling fans in all U.S. households in 2001. This was an average of 2.8 ceiling fans per households with fans and 1.8 ceiling fans for all U.S. households (View table in HTML, PDF, and EXCEL formats. To View and/or print PDF's, download Acrobat Adobe Reader.)

The South and Midwest census regions had a higher percentage of ceiling fans than the Northeast or West census regions.


Figure 1. Households with Ceiling Fans by Census Region


For the four most populated States, Florida and Texas had a higher percentage of ceiling fans than New York or California. Florida and Texas had an average of 3.8 and 3.6 ceiling fans "per households with ceiling fans" and New York and California had 2.0 and 2.1 ceiling fans "per households with ceiling fans."


Figure 2. Households with Ceiling Fans by Four Most Populated States

 


Single-Family Detached Homes have more ceiling fans than other housing types.


Figure 3. Households with Ceiling Fans by Type of Home


Based on the ownership of the unit, homes that were owned were more likely to have ceiling fans than rental homes. Homes that were owned had an average of 3.0 ceiling fans "per households with ceiling fans" and rental homes had an average of 1.8 ceiling fans "per households with ceiling fans."


Figure 4. Households with Ceiling Fans by Ownership of Unit

Homes built from 1980 to 2001 had more ceiling fans than homes built in any other years.



Figure 5. Households with Ceiling Fans by Year of Construction


Homes with five or more rooms were more likely to have ceiling fans.


Figure 6. Households with Ceiling Fans by Total Number of Rooms


Homes that used air-conditioning had a high percentage of ceiling fans than other homes.


Figure 7. Households with Ceiling Fans by Air-Conditioner


The percentage of homes with ceiling fans increases as income increases. In addition, the average number of ceiling fans "per household with ceiling fans" increases as income increases.


Figure 8. Households with Ceiling Fans by 2001 Household Income



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