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THE UNIVERSITY
OF MICHIGAN

JUL 21 1960

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Figure 1.-VACANCY TRENDS IN RENTAL AND HOMEOWNER HOUSING: 1956 TO 1965

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BUREAU OF THE CENSUS

A. ROSS ECKLER, Director

HOWARD C. GRIEVES, Deputy Director
CONRAD TAEUBER, Assistant Director

Housing Division
ARTHUR F. YOUNG, Chief

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This report was prepared by Aneda E. France, Occupancy and Utilization Branch.
The preparation of the report was under the general direction of Aaron Josowitz,
Chief, Structural Statistics Branch, Housing Division.

SUGGESTED CITATION

U.S. Bureau of the Census, Current Housing Reports, Series H-111, No. 43,

"Vacant Housing Units in the United States: 1956 to 1965," U.S. Govern-
ment Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1966.

For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 20402, 20 cents. Annual subscription (Series H-111 and H-121, combined), $1.00; foreign mailing, $1.25.

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2.--Annual average occupancy and vacancy rates, for the United States: 1956 to 1965......

3.--Annual average owner-occupancy rates, for the United States, inside and outside stand-

ard metropolitan statistical areas, and regions: 1956 and 1960 to 1965......

4.--Vacant rental units by selected characteristics, for the United States and inside and

outside standard metropolitan statistical areas: 1956 to 1965......

5.--Vacant rental units by monthly rent asked, for the United States and inside and out-

side standard metropolitan statistical areas: 1956 to 1965......

6.--Vacant rental and homeowner units by year structure built, for the United States and

inside and outside standard metropolitan statistical areas: 1962 to 1965.....

7.--Vacant rental units --Monthly rent asked by selected characteristics, for the United

States: 1956, 1960, 1962, and 1965.....

8.--Vacant rental units --Year structure built by selected characteristics, for the United

States and inside and outside standard metropolitan statistical areas: 1962 and

1965.....

9.--Vacant rental units --Duration of vacancy at time of enumeration by selected charac-

teristics, for the United States and inside and outside standard metropolitan sta-

tistical areas: 1962 and 1965.....

10.--Vacant homeowner units by selected characteristics,

and outside standard metropolitan statistical areas:

11.--Vacant homeowner units by sale price asked, for the United States and inside and out-

side standard metropolitan statistical areas: 1956 to 1965........

12.--Vacant homeowner units --Sale price asked by selected characteristics,

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VACANT HOUSING UNITS IN THE UNITED STATES: 1956 TO 1965

This report supplements and expands the information on vacant housing units presented in the quarterly reports issued from 1956 to 1965 in the Series H-111, Current Housing Reports, Housing Vacancies. The purpose is to present in one publication an overall picture of the changes that have occurred in the vacant housing inventory during

the past 10 years.

In this report, the statistics are presented in two major sections. The first part presents information on the vacancy rates and characteristics of vacant housing units for the fourth quarter 1965, based on the results of a survey conducted by the Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce. The second part presents summary statistics on trends in vacancy rates and characteristics of vacant housing units for the years 1956 through 1965. The figures presented are annual averages based on data published in the quarterly reports and supplemented by information from previously unpublished tabulations.

The statistics presented relate to vacancy rates in the total rental and homeowner inventories and percent distributions of all vacant housing units by condition of unit, type of vacancy,

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For vacant rental and homeowner units, percent distributions are presented on the following characteristics: Number of rooms and bedrooms, number of housing units in structure, year structure built, number of months the unit has been vacant, plumbing facilities, monthly rent asked, and sale price asked. In addition, data on monthly rent asked, sale price asked, year structure built, and duration of vacancy are cross-tabulated by selected characteristics.

In this report, separate statistics on vacancy rates are published for the United States by total inside and outside standard metropolitan statistical areas, and by regions. Percent distributions

on characteristics and cross-classifications (except monthly rent asked and sale price asked) for vacant rental and homeowner units are shown for the United States by total inside and outside standard metropolitan statistical areas. Crossclassifications by monthly rent asked and by sale price asked are presented for only the United States.

VACANT HOUSING UNITS, FOURTH QUARTER 1965

The level of vacancies for the United States as a whole showed no significant change in either the rental or ownership portions of the housing inventory between the third and fourth quarters of 1965. In the fourth quarter, 7.7 percent of the total rental inventory was vacant and available for rent, and 1.4 percent of the total homeowner inventory was vacant and available for sale. In the third quarter, the rental vacancy rate was 7.2 percent and the homeowner vacancy rate was 1.5 percent. The differences between the figures for the third and fourth quarters are not statistically significant.

Within standard metropolitan statistical areas (SMSA's), the fourth quarter vacancy rates were

not significantly different from the rates outside SMSA's. The rental vacancy rate was 7.5 peroutside these cent inside SMSA's and 8.2 percent

areas. The homeowner vacancy rate was 1.3 percent inside metropolitan areas and 1.5 percent in nonmetropolitan territory.

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