Table 4.  Estimates of the Total Housing Inventory for the

                United States:  First Quarter 2004 and 2005



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





                                    First     First   90-Percent

                                   quarter   quarter  Confidence Interval (+)a   2005

Type                                 2004      2005    of 2005      of      Percent

                                   estimate  estimate  estimate  difference of total



All housing units.................  121,633   123,341       (X)        (X)       100



  Occupied........................  105,870   107,755       337        308        87

    Owner occupied................   72,666    74,488       631        433        60

    Renter occupied...............   33,204    33,267       533        412        27



  Vacant..........................   15,763    15,586       350        312        13

    Year-round vacant.............   12,067    11,984       345        299        10

      For rent....................    3,904     3,765       172        194         3

      For sale only...............    1,273     1,388        89        110         1

      Rented or sold,

      awaiting occupancy..........      935       916        66         94         1

      Held off market.............    5,955     5,915       249        217         5

        For occasional use........    2,031     1,974       146        128         2

        Temporarily occupied

        by persons with

        usual residence elsewhere.    1,028     1,247       117         97         1

        For other reasons.........    2,896     2,694       170        151         2



    Seasonal vacant...............    3,696     3,602       218        193         3

	

    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.