U.S. Census Bureau Housing Data 2d Quarter 2009

241329 Resource 178435 178982 178982 1253679328162 1253679518092 Controlled Homeownership Drops Nationally in Second Quarter

But not by much -- here's the breakdown on homeownership and other interesting new census data

The United States Census Bureau released numbers this week showing that homeownership declined in the second quarter of 2009 to its lowest level in six years. Still, over two-thirds of U.S. households are owner-occupied (66.6% to be exact).  Residents in crowded housing jumped to 1.1 percent, the highest since 2004, a sign people were "doubling up" with relatives or friends to save money. The full report showed many more statistics about American life, including significant changes in how people live, commute, and obtain health care because of the “Great Recession.”  <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090922/ap_on_re_us/us_census_recession_s_impact">See a full report on Yahoo News here.</a> <a href="http://www.realtor.org/RMODaily.nsf/pages/News2009092201?OpenDocument">Realtor Magazine’s daily digest</a> of news found the most interesting aspect of the census data to be the breakdown of demographic data on homeownership: “Homeownership fell the most for Asians, dropping 1.24 percentage points to 59.4, largely because about one-third of Asians live in foreclosure-prone California. “Homeownership for African-Americans declined 0.88 percentage points to 45.6 percent. Hispanic ownership declined 0.80 percentage points to 49.1 percent, and whites’ ownership was down 0.40 to 73.4 percent.” For the real statistics geeks, here’s a <a href="http://www.census.gov/acs/www/">link to the U.S. Census Bureau data</a>. <a href="http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/housing/hvs/overview.html">For the specifics on housing vacancies and homeownership, click here.</a> 9 application/xml false homeownership housing statistics U.S. Census Bureau U.S. Census Bureau Housing Data 2d Quarter 2009 Lots of info here -- dig in and you can download all sorts of statistics about Flagstaff http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/housing/hvs/hvs.html Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; GTB6; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; OfficeLiveConnector.1.3; OfficeLivePatch.0.0; .NET CLR 3.0.30729) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 aheitland 24.121.32.9 false true false false true 178975 false false true false false false true 178435 blog blogsite/BestFlagstaffHomes/web