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American Housing Survey for the United States: 2003

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American Housing Survey 2003
Table 3-4. Selected Equipment and Plumbing--Owner Occupied Units
Numbers in thousands. Weighting consistent with the 2000 Census.

		Housing unit characteristics
				Physical problems		Household characteristics						In MSAs			Urban		Rural			Regions
	Total occupied units	New con- struction 4 years	Manu- factured/ mobile homes	Severe	Moderate	Black alone	Hispanic	Elderly (65 years and over)	Moved in past year	Below poverty level	Total occupied units	Central cities	Suburbs	Outside MSAs	Total	Outside MSAs	Total	Suburbs	Outside MSAs	Northeast	Midwest	South	West
Total	72238	4673	5514	932	1795	6193	5106	17350	5609	6058	72238	16701	39724	15813	49307	4844	22931	11702	10969	12964	17889	26699	14686
Equipment@1 Lacking complete kitchen facilities	303	24	8	42	261	47	29	78	60	39	303	109	151	43	239	11	64	32	32	73	85	93	53
With complete kitchen (sink, refrigerator, and oven or burners)	71935	4649	5506	890	1534	6146	5078	17272	5549	6019	71935	16592	39573	15770	49069	4833	22866	11670	10937	12891	17804	26606	14634
Kitchen sink	72199	4667	5514	910	1778	6185	5105	17348	5608	6044	72199	16693	39698	15808	49290	4844	22910	11686	10964	12962	17877	26682	14678
Refrigerator	72166	4659	5508	900	1755	6173	5104	17336	5593	6037	72166	16677	39693	15796	49268	4844	22898	11686	10952	12956	17870	26663	14677
Cooking stove or range	71918	4652	5483	899	1684	6146	5086	17272	5560	5995	71918	16606	39562	15751	49081	4825	22837	11657	10926	12916	17809	26564	14629
Burners, no stove or range	63	6	14	5	7	4	5	18	10	12	63	21	27	15	39	5	24	12	9	13	12	23	14
Microwave oven only	146	8	15	8	13	21	13	35	19	35	146	46	69	31	111	11	36	13	20	9	39	72	27
Dishwasher	50303	4299	2711	436	616	2873	2620	10527	4270	2786	50303	10892	30297	9113	35601	2839	14702	8221	6274	8906	11297	18600	11500
Washing machine	69207	4589	5125	778	1582	5699	4731	16452	5286	5579	69207	15554	38363	15290	46992	4694	22215	11368	10596	12136	17222	25673	14175
Clothes dryer	67262	4570	4879	684	1438	5158	4320	15567	5199	5093	67262	14895	37532	14834	45666	4582	21596	11096	10253	11634	17064	24760	13804
Disposal in kitchen sink	35559	3332	898	272	348	2046	2492	7492	3418	1858	35559	9352	21531	4677	28988	2136	6571	3881	2541	3684	8912	12011	10953
Trash compactor	3247	289	73	18	31	214	202	706	285	191	3247	777	1996	474	2455	156	792	459	318	409	525	1290	1022
Air conditioning: Central	47098	4088	3531	414	423	3774	3072	10775	3956	3191	47098	10492	27610	8995	33154	2835	13944	7586	6161	4550	12774	22406	7368
Additional central	3549	515	137	32	37	250	258	680	333	173	3549	746	2248	555	2497	165	1051	646	390	214	447	2246	642
1 room unit	7132	136	829	151	430	714	453	2171	437	1042	7132	1567	3249	2315	4179	699	2953	1318	1617	2335	2024	1476	1297
2 room units	4954	49	409	86	463	667	320	1255	262	484	4954	1272	2363	1320	3204	401	1750	821	919	2087	1193	1321	353
3 room units or more	3115	23	155	58	230	414	281	618	190	274	3115	930	1611	574	2315	207	800	433	367	1721	383	913	98
Main Heating Equipment Warm-air furnace	48111	3382	4223	507	485	4025	3055	11097	3885	3681	48111	11562	26526	10023	34283	3376	13828	7007	6647	5989	15246	16078	10798
Steam or hot water system	7801	155	13	153	141	611	343	2133	410	505	7801	2018	4399	1384	5756	473	2045	1127	911	5688	1208	413	492
Electric heat pump	8278	935	744	52	70	632	614	1792	759	616	8278	1576	5064	1638	4967	338	3310	1931	1300	217	459	6732	870
Built-in electric units	2190	36	49	31	29	128	90	564	160	183	2190	296	1130	765	1112	200	1079	514	564	596	430	537	628
Floor, wall, or other built-in hot-air units without ducts	2293	83	91	44	35	243	506	669	188	299	2293	703	1131	459	1683	160	609	311	299	192	216	802	1083
Room heaters with flue	812	21	63	27	15	109	73	325	56	177	812	107	295	410	344	89	468	147	321	96	117	450	149
Room heaters without flue	996	8	130	38	958	336	174	354	39	274	996	235	289	471	472	139	524	192	332	17	19	937	23
Portable electric heaters	346	10	92	11	23	46	106	72	17	103	346	93	186	66	216	11	129	74	55	2	12	258	74
Stoves	864	26	87	49	28	27	47	198	45	149	864	21	381	462	126	30	738	307	432	132	136	304	292
Fireplaces with inserts	124	0	0	0	2	5	7	25	3	11	124	11	59	55	39	6	86	37	49	7	25	41	51
Fireplaces without inserts	42	2	7	5	0	9	3	14	2	10	42	5	23	14	19	0	23	10	14	1	5	21	15
Other	124	11	16	3	3	8	21	29	21	14	124	21	62	40	63	6	61	27	34	16	12	66	30
Cooking stove	58	0	0	5	3	0	27	31	0	10	58	23	31	5	48	0	10	6	5	9	0	28	21
None	200	2	0	8	2	14	42	46	24	26	200	30	149	21	180	15	20	14	6	2	4	33	160
Other Heating Equipment@1 Warm-air furnace	706	51	64	11	23	45	32	183	47	61	706	111	383	211	436	66	270	124	146	81	216	260	149
Steam or hot water system	162	4	2	7	1	23	10	62	5	9	162	91	50	21	129	0	33	12	21	99	24	19	19
Electric heat pump	260	15	31	2	2	4	6	76	9	11	260	41	145	74	142	17	119	62	57	18	29	167	47
Built-in electric units	1894	32	51	16	60	103	102	513	91	109	1894	399	917	578	1103	173	792	387	405	417	406	512	559
Floor, wall, or other built-in hot-air units without ducts	223	10	20	9	9	38	30	67	5	15	223	49	103	71	162	29	61	19	42	30	38	71	83
Room heaters with flue	544	12	36	7	13	21	24	195	19	50	544	98	226	221	265	49	280	108	172	131	137	189	88
Room heaters without flue	1364	38	185	24	85	138	38	353	55	150	1364	158	536	670	545	129	819	278	541	258	285	762	59
Portable electric heaters	5393	170	394	86	279	434	362	1538	248	473	5393	1323	2756	1314	3689	388	1704	759	925	823	1293	1831	1446
Stoves	3726	86	173	55	64	82	85	823	154	304	3726	302	1963	1461	1482	286	2244	1047	1175	1127	737	836	1026
Fireplaces with inserts	4270	395	265	31	59	310	174	832	331	227	4270	689	2437	1144	2305	271	1965	1077	872	455	801	1763	1251
Fireplaces without inserts	3266	334	105	28	68	263	248	554	355	216	3266	714	1915	637	2187	152	1079	585	485	335	544	1390	997
Other	460	10	34	5	5	18	16	88	21	30	460	45	227	187	181	31	279	123	156	113	84	160	102
Cooking stove	666	35	34	21	35	73	83	185	53	89	666	164	332	170	467	53	199	82	117	127	85	286	168
None	52727	3604	4318	676	1208	4784	4040	12772	4353	4529	52727	13063	29382	10282	37942	3500	14785	7798	6783	9630	13809	19679	9609
Used as parallel heating equipment@1	3363	116	176	80	98	190	215	799	198	283	3363	543	1803	1017	1869	250	1495	718	767	671	647	1093	953
Warm-air furnace	334	26	29	2	6	16	19	51	24	26	334	38	210	86	214	32	120	66	54	20	127	140	48
Steam or hot water system	73	4	2	5	1	17	5	33	2	3	73	51	13	9	60	0	14	5	9	43	14	10	6
Electric heat pump	99	10	5	2	0	2	2	29	5	7	99	13	56	30	57	11	42	23	19	5	5	74	15
Built-in electric units	840	12	34	9	17	41	49	193	37	51	840	192	436	213	527	62	312	162	151	165	161	208	305
Floor, wall, or other built-in hot-air units without ducts	64	5	2	7	5	5	13	20	1	4	64	5	30	29	40	12	24	7	17	4	15	24	21
Room heaters with flue	198	4	11	2	6	8	9	68	7	24	198	32	91	75	89	7	109	41	68	50	42	71	35
Stoves	854	25	46	25	32	19	21	197	45	85	854	52	447	355	311	59	543	236	297	284	125	230	216
Fireplaces with inserts	612	21	33	17	14	41	46	146	28	49	612	86	346	179	344	50	267	139	128	79	102	213	218
Fireplaces with no inserts	417	14	25	4	22	42	50	85	41	36	417	66	232	119	263	34	154	69	85	32	62	158	164
Cooking stove	75	2	2	7	0	1	20	33	7	11	75	23	35	17	52	7	23	14	9	13	6	35	20
Other	91	3	0	0	0	2	3	21	10	11	91	12	44	35	41	6	51	21	30	22	23	25	22
Used as supplemental heating equipment@1	16249	950	1042	178	501	1179	826	3788	1036	1203	16249	3050	8490	4708	9385	1137	6864	3247	3571	2683	3436	6032	4097
Warm-air furnace	326	23	35	7	18	27	6	109	23	35	326	57	152	117	184	32	142	56	86	55	80	109	83
Steam or hot water system	64	0	0	0	0	4	5	20	3	3	64	27	24	12	44	0	20	7	12	42	6	4	11
Electric heat pump	141	5	26	0	2	0	4	38	5	3	141	20	79	42	68	6	74	38	36	9	22	81	29
Built-in electric units	1044	20	17	5	42	60	53	313	54	55	1044	207	477	361	570	109	475	223	251	249	245	299	251
Floor, wall, or other built-in hot-air units without ducts	137	5	15	3	5	31	16	41	4	7	137	38	62	37	105	14	32	9	23	18	20	40	58
Room heaters with flue	298	3	23	2	5	9	14	110	9	21	298	56	107	135	148	38	150	53	97	61	74	112	52
Room heaters without flue	1364	38	185	24	85	138	38	353	55	150	1364	158	536	670	545	129	819	278	541	258	285	762	59
Portable electric heaters	5393	170	394	86	279	434	362	1538	248	473	5393	1323	2756	1314	3689	388	1704	759	925	823	1293	1831	1446
Stoves	2849	59	127	30	32	62	61	626	107	212	2849	251	1496	1102	1165	224	1684	794	878	839	608	596	807
Fireplaces with inserts	3635	375	232	13	45	270	122	683	303	178	3635	596	2076	962	1945	221	1689	933	741	372	694	1543	1026
Fireplaces with no inserts	2831	317	79	24	46	218	195	469	308	181	2831	644	1671	516	1909	118	922	516	397	300	478	1226	827
Cooking stove	494	17	32	15	29	64	55	133	32	62	494	104	251	138	339	44	155	60	95	97	56	214	127
Other	335	7	32	3	3	10	12	56	11	13	335	28	170	137	119	19	216	98	118	89	57	118	71
Plumbing With all plumbing facilities	71547	4656	5490	241	1795	6082	5052	17137	5567	5934	71547	16489	39389	15669	48809	4804	22738	11613	10865	12775	17715	26464	14593
Lacking some or all plumbing facilities@1	691	17	24	691	0	110	55	214	42	124	691	212	335	144	498	40	193	89	104	189	174	234	93
No hot piped water	106	4	17	106	0	23	7	38	7	44	106	13	50	43	33	3	73	33	40	21	28	48	10
No bathtub and no shower	60	3	0	60	0	8	0	29	5	30	60	5	24	31	7	0	53	22	31	2	18	34	6
No flush toilet	47	0	0	47	0	8	0	16	2	22	47	0	16	31	2	0	45	14	31	0	13	31	3
No exclusive use	561	11	7	561	0	87	48	159	32	73	561	194	277	90	460	37	100	48	52	166	137	177	81
Primary Source of Water Public system or private company	60327	3927	3825	747	1486	5657	4828	14411	4999	4856	60327	16304	33271	10751	47337	4666	12989	6766	6085	10149	14334	22380	13463
Well serving 1 to 5 units	11566	726	1635	136	297	525	273	2810	588	1148	11566	388	6358	4820	1949	176	9617	4852	4645	2738	3485	4154	1189
Drilled	10094	674	1420	109	263	440	230	2482	521	957	10094	361	5539	4194	1703	147	8391	4224	4046	2303	3070	3635	1086
Dug	787	18	133	19	18	66	21	186	21	117	787	7	401	379	94	8	693	321	371	233	167	322	64
Not reported	685	34	82	8	16	19	23	142	45	74	685	20	418	247	153	20	533	306	227	203	248	196	39
Other	346	20	54	49	12	11	5	130	22	54	346	9	94	242	21	2	325	85	240	77	70	165	35
Safety of Primary Source of Water Selected primary water sources@13	72220	4673	5512	922	1795	6184	5101	17347	5603	6055	72220	16692	39717	15811	49295	4844	22925	11699	10967	12959	17888	26693	14680
Safe to drink	66239	4256	5015	819	1546	5420	4092	16184	4992	5344	66239	14941	36404	14894	44604	4530	21635	11034	10363	12076	16919	24570	12674
Not safe to drink	5023	363	450	91	186	621	942	924	520	570	5023	1486	2745	792	3942	257	1081	524	534	662	767	1769	1825
Safety not reported	958	53	48	12	62	144	67	238	91	141	958	265	568	125	749	56	209	140	69	222	202	354	180
Source of Drinking Water Primary source not safe to drink	5023	363	450	91	186	621	942	924	520	570	5023	1486	2745	792	3942	257	1081	524	534	662	767	1769	1825
Drinking and primary water source the same	958	61	82	23	40	111	105	214	71	128	958	210	542	206	689	58	269	116	148	167	212	357	223
Public or private system	896	61	75	16	30	104	105	205	68	113	896	210	512	173	679	58	217	96	116	159	180	337	220
Individual well	54	0	7	0	8	5	0	4	3	10	54	0	26	28	10	0	43	15	28	8	29	14	3
Spring	4	0	0	2	2	0	0	4	0	0	4	0	0	4	0	0	4	0	4	0	0	4	0
Cistern	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Stream or lake	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other	5	0	0	5	0	2	0	0	0	5	5	0	5	0	0	0	5	5	0	0	3	2	0
Drinking and primary water source different	4057	302	367	68	146	507	837	711	446	441	4057	1273	2198	586	3248	200	809	406	387	495	553	1407	1602
Public or private system	14	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	3	0	14	0	11	2	6	0	8	6	2	3	4	2	5
Individual well	13	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	2	13	4	6	2	11	0	2	0	2	2	2	5	4
Spring	62	1	2	0	6	20	8	18	4	14	62	26	25	11	46	2	15	7	8	34	5	21	3
Cistern	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	0	4	0	2	0	2	2	0	2	0	0	2
Stream or lake	8	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	2	8	5	3	0	8	0	0	0	0	1	2	3	3
Commercial bottled water	2942	212	293	54	121	415	628	517	308	320	2942	896	1595	451	2343	153	599	284	298	339	395	1032	1176
Other	1014	88	72	12	19	70	199	173	129	101	1014	342	553	120	832	44	182	106	76	114	145	345	411
Source of drinking water not reported	7	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	0	7	2	5	0	5	0	3	3	0	0	2	5	0
Means of Sewage Disposal Public sewer	53069	3279	2432	705	1233	5243	4548	12718	4435	4135	53069	16068	29179	7821	45488	4495	7581	4151	3327	9279	13613	17800	12377
Septic tank, cesspool, chemical toilet	19129	1394	3080	189	562	948	559	4616	1170	1907	19129	633	10534	7962	3817	349	15312	7543	7613	3683	4263	8873	2310
Other	40	0	2	38	0	2	0	15	4	16	40	0	11	30	2	0	38	8	30	2	13	25	0

@1Figures may not add to total because more than one category may apply to a unit.
@1Figures may not add to total because more than one category may apply to a unit.
@1Figures may not add to total because more than one category may apply to a unit.
@13Excludes units where primary source of water is commercial bottled water.

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