U.S. Census Bureau
 Survey of Market Absorption of Apartments (SOMA)



Metropolitan Area Absorption Rates
Second Quarter 2005 - Table 3

                                
                                SURVEY OF MARKET ABSORPTION
                     Estimates of  Absorption Rates by Quarter of Completion


                     (Privately-financed, nonsubsidized, unfurnished apartments)



                           MSA: Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC

                                   Percent absorbed in --

                          3 months             6 months              9 months               12 months

Quarter of                       90%                   90%                   90%                   90%
completion           Percent  C.I.(+/-)2/  Percent  C.I.(+/-)2/  Percent  C.I.(+/-)2/  Percent  C.I.(+/-)2/

2001 Jan-Mar           39       6.5          72       4.9          83       4.1          88       2.1
     Apr-Jun           54       9.8          79       1.7          87       1.8          91       1.6
     Jul-Sep           56       2.7          74       3.3          87       4.3          96        +
     Oct-Dec           35       7.8          57       6.5          78       6.8          87       4.2

2002 Jan-Mar           43       7.2          59      11.7          68      14.1          70      14.7
     Apr-Jun           78      13.9          82      14.7          72      11.1          82      13.4
     Jul-Sep           72       3.4          82       1.4          91       1.5          96       0.9
     Oct-Dec           34       4.9          60       4.9          76       0.6          84       0.5

2003 Jan-Mar           55        +           82        +           99       0.8          97       0.8
     Apr-Jun           74       6.7          99       0.6         100       +           100       +
     Jul-Sep           36       7.0          61      12.7          61      10.5          87       7.9
     Oct-Dec           47       7.0          62       4.6          85       4.1          96       4.5

2004 Jan-Mar           *        *            *        *            *        *            *        *           
     Apr-Jun           89       6.0          94       6.7          97       3.3          99       0.8 
     Jul-Sep           77       8.2          92       1.5          97       0.9
     Oct-Dec           #         #           #         # 

2005 Jan-Mar           21        +  
     Apr-Jun           
     Jul-Sep         
     Oct-Dec           

2/A 90-percent confidence interval is a measure of an estimate's variability.  The larger the confidence interval
    in relation to the size of the estimate, the less reliable the estimate.
r = Revised
* = Data suppressed to avoid disclosure
+ = Estimated to be less than one half of one percent OR cannot be estimated
- = No activity
# = Withheld because the estimate did not meet publication standards because of the associated standard error






Go to Metropolitan Area Absorption Rates - Second Quarter 2005
Contact Alan Friedman at 301-763-3199 or mail to alan.friedman@census.gov for further information on the Survey of Market Absorption of Apartments Data.

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