Characteristics of Residential Housing Units by Ceiling FansIn 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.
Single-Family Detached Homes have more ceiling fans than other housing types.
Homes built from 1980 to 2001 had more ceiling fans than homes built in any other years.
Homes with five or more rooms were more likely to have ceiling fans. Homes that used air-conditioning had a high percentage of ceiling fans than other homes. 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. Contacts Specific
questions may be directed to: Survey
Manager
Phone: (202) 586-7237 Fax: (202) 586-0018 Vicki
Moorhead http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/recs/ceilingfans/ceiling_fan.html Release date: April 3, 2003
If you are having any technical problems with this site, please contact the EIA webmaster at wmaster@eia.doe.gov. |