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Housing Vacancies and Homeownership (CPS/HVS)


Second Quarter 2008

Table 4. Estimates of the Total Housing Inventory for the United States: Second Quarter 2007 and 2008

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Type Second quarter 2007 estimate Second quarter 2008 estimate 90-Percent Confidence Interval (±)(a) 2008 Percent of total
of 2008 estimate of difference
All housing units 127,728 129,871 (X) (X) 100
Occupied 110,341 111,228 298 270 86
Owner occupied 75,283 75,715 628 429 58
Renter occupied 35,058 35,513 544 419 27
Vacant 17,387 18,643 377 331 14
Year-round vacant 13,057 13,864 368 314 11
For rent 3,731 4,008 177 195 3
For sale only 2,037 2,169 111 138 2
Rented or sold, awaiting occupancy 1,199 1,145 74 105 1
Held off market 6,090 6,542 261 223 5
For occasional use 2,023 2,138 152 131 2
Temporarily occupied by persons with usual residence elsewhere 1,109 1,169 113 97 1
For other reasons 2,958 3,235 186 159 2
Seasonal vacant 4,330 4,778 250 214 4
Footnotes:
Estimates are in thousands and may not add to total, due to rounding.
(a) A 90-percent confidence interval is a measure of an estimate's reliability. The larger the confidence interval is, in relation to the size of the estimate, the less reliable the estimate.
(X) Not applicable. Since the number of housing units is set equal to an independent national measure, there is no sampling error, and hence no confidence interval.

NOTE: Since first quarter 2003, the Current Population Survey/Housing Vacancy Survey (CPS/HVS) estimates have been controlled to independent housing unit counts.  Doing so should make the CPS/HVS estimate of housing units more  comparable to other Census.

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Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division