American Housing Survey
The American Housing Survey (AHS, formerly Annual Housing Survey) can answer
many of your questions about U.S. people and homes.
The AHS is the largest, regular national housing sample survey
in the United States. The U.S. Census Bureau conducts the
AHS to obtain up-to-date housing statistics for the Department
of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). An introductory booklet
created by Census Bureau provides an overview of housing data
and tells you where to find these data. You can download the
PDF version from:
http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/ahsr04-1.pdf
The AHS contains a wealth of information that can be used
by professionals in nearly every field for planning, decisionmaking, market research, or various kinds of program development.
It gives you data on apartments, single-family homes, mobile
homes, vacant homes, family composition, income, housing and
neighborhood quality, housing costs, equipment, fuels, size
of housing unit, and recent movers. National data are collected
every other year, from a fixed sample of about 50,000 homes,
plus new construction each year. The survey started in 1973,
and has had the same sample since 1985, letting you see homes
and households changing over the years. In some metropolitan
areas we have additional samples every 4-6 years, to measure
local conditions.
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