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Update: Housing units in California

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Last night I wrote a post about the number of housing units in the United States. It's all correct. Unfortunately, I also talked about about housing units in California. When I went back today to take a more detailed look at California, I realized that I had transposed a couple of numbers in yesterday's post, making it completely wrong.

Here's the corrected data for California:

For the nation as a whole, the ratio of housing units to households dropped from 117.8% in 2011 to 111.8% in 2021.

I'm using slightly different years for California (our peak was in 2010 and data is available only through 2020) but it doesn't affect the basic conclusion: California's housing ratio is lower than the national average, but not by a lot.

Maybe later I'll take a look at the current ratios for each state. It all depends on how interested I stay in this topic.

12 thoughts on “Update: Housing units in California”

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    1. DFPaul

      Look into Santa Cruz. I think it's gotten very expensive, but seems to me much better to be near a good university and in a culturally much more interesting area.

  4. DFPaul

    One thing I'm a little confused by... if a "household" is a group of people living together, then don't we have exactly as many dwellings as we have households? How can it be !10% or whatever???

        1. Crissa

          No.

          Depends on whether they commingle their stuff. Just because you rent a room with someone doesn't mean you're in their household,

          Also, houses don't always have households in them: vacation rentals, second homes, etc.

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  6. MontyTheClipArtMongoose

    On a related note, the house party set for Dr. Dre's Super Bowl half-time show just sold for three million dollars... as a multifamily housing.

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