Table 9.  Estimates of the Total Housing Inventory for the

                United States:  2006 and 2007



(Estimates are in thousands and may not add to total, due to rounding)





                                                      90-Percent

                                                Confidence Interval +/-  2007

Type                        2006        2007      of 2007      of      Percent

                          estimate    estimate   Estimate  difference of total



All housing units.......     126,012     127,958       (X)        (X)      100



  Occupied..............     109,575     110,306        245        227      86

    Owner occupied......      75,380      75,159        564        480      59

    Renter occupied.....      34,195      35,147        483        426      27



  Vacant................      16,437      17,652        292        263      14

    Year-round vacant...      12,459      13,276        303        273      10

      For rent..........       3,737       3,848        138        142       3

      For sale only.....       1,836       2,117         77         85       2

      Rented or sold,

      awaiting occupancy       1,108       1,130         49         63       1

      Held off market...       5,778       6,181        216        195       5

        For occasional u       1,858       1,993        125        113       2

        Temporarily occupied

        by persons with

        usual residence        1,198       1,139         95         88       1

        For other reason       2,722       3,049        154        137       2



    Seasonal vacant.....       3,978       4,376        207        189       3





(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.

\1 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 estiamte, the less reliable the estimate.