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| Type | Fourth quarter 2007 estimate | Fourth quarter 2008 estimate | 90-Percent Confidence Interval (±)(a) | 2008 Percent of total | |
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| of 2008 estimate | of difference | ||||
| All housing units | 128,649 | 130,840 | (X) | (X) | 100 |
| Occupied | 110,878 | 111,854 | 290 | 263 | 85 |
| Owner occupied | 75,164 | 75,508 | 628 | 429 | 58 |
| Renter occupied | 35,714 | 36,346 | 547 | 422 | 28 |
| Vacant | 17,771 | 18,986 | 380 | 333 | 15 |
| Year-round vacant | 13,324 | 14,189 | 371 | 317 | 11 |
| For rent | 3,838 | 4,141 | 180 | 198 | 3 |
| For sale only | 2,179 | 2,230 | 113 | 142 | 2 |
| Rented or sold, awaiting occupancy | 1,010 | 957 | 68 | 97 | 1 |
| Held off market | 6,297 | 6,861 | 267 | 228 | 5 |
| For occasional use | 2,005 | 2,069 | 150 | 129 | 2 |
| Temporarily occupied by persons with usual residence elsewhere | 1,110 | 1,245 | 117 | 99 | 1 |
| For other reasons | 3,182 | 3,547 | 195 | 165 | 3 |
| Seasonal vacant | 4,447 | 4,797 | 251 | 216 | 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 Bureau housing surveys. The housing controls affect the estimate of vacant units in the sense that the estimates of total occupied and vacant units sum to the control total. Vacancy rates and homeownership rates are not affected by this change. The totals shown above have a two-year time lag (4Q2007 uses 2005 housing unit controls from Population Division, which are projected forward and 4Q2008 uses 2006 housing unit controls from Population Division which are projected forward). For the most current historical time series on total housing units and the methodology used, please see Population Division's website: http://www.census.gov/popest/housing/index.html. |
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| Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division | |||||
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