Housing

Housing Celebrating 250 Years of Measuring America's People and Economy The Census Bureau's housing data present a comprehensive picture of housing in America. You'll find a wide range of data on the size, age and type of American homes; home values, rents and mortgages, the housing and construction industry, and more. Subtopics: - Housing Affordability: Reports changes in housing affordability for families and individuals at different price levels and chances of affordability by demographic characteristic. - Housing Patterns: Data on residential housing pattern measures, includes dissimilarity, isolation, absolute centralization and spatial proximity indexes. - Housing Vacancies: Housing vacancy data from the Decennial Census and American Community Survey (ACS) are available on American FactFinder. - New Housing (Construction): Construction covers national and regional data on the number of new housing units authorized by building permits. - Rental Housing: Housing inventory estimates and characteristics of renter occupied housing units are available for all levels all geography down to the Census tract level. - Residential Financing: Mortgage data includes financial characteristics of housing units with and without a mortgage, mortgage status by age of householder, and more. Recent News and Resources include press releases, blogs, datasets, and webinars related to housing data and census information.