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



Metropolitan Area Absorption Rates
Third Quarter 2004 - Table 4

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


                     (Privately-financed, nonsubsidized, unfurnished apartments)





                         CMSA: Chicago-Gary-Kenosha, IL-IN-WI (IL-IN part)

                                            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/

2000 Jan-Mar           80       3.8         100       +           100       +           100       +
     Apr-Jun           #         #           #        #            72     14.0           72     13.7
     Jul-Sep           94        +           97      1.0          100       +           100       +
     Oct-Dec            *        *           *        *            *        *            *        *

2001 Jan-Mar            *        *           *        *            *        *            *        *
     Apr-Jun           -         -           -        -            -        -            -        -
     Jul-Sep            *        *           *        *            *        *            *        *
     Oct-Dec            *        *           *        *            *        *            *        *

2002 Jan-Mar            *        *           *        *            *        *            *        *
     Apr-Jun           56       2.9          65       7.6          72       5.9          73       6.3
     Jul-Sep           91       7.3          96       5.8          99       1.5         100       0.5
     Oct-Dec           97       3.5         100       +           100       +           100       +

2003 Jan-Mar           61       3.0         84       5.3          90       1.0          94       3.0
     Apr-Jun           76       4.8         85       5.4          90       2.8          97       0.9
     Jul-Sep           83       8.1         86      11.6          94       4.9         100         +
     Oct-Dec           #         #          #        #            77      11.3

2004 Jan-Mar           #         #          85       4.3
     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 - Third Quarter 2004
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
Last Revised: March 11, 2005