{"id":21005,"date":"2024-04-02T07:19:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T12:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/?p=21005"},"modified":"2024-04-02T10:21:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T15:21:14","slug":"study-vacant-homes-per-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/big-data\/study-vacant-homes-per-state\/","title":{"rendered":"This study ranks states by number of vacant homes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A recent study by LAHomes<\/a> shows which states have the highest number of vacant homes\u2013and which ones are struggling to free up space for new occupants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study relies on data from the U.S. Census Bureau Population Survey and includes an assessment of states\u2019 vacancy rates between 2011 and 2021. The United States average for vacant homes during this time frame was 12.6 percent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the top of the vacancy list is Maine, with a whopping rate of 23.9 percent of homes being vacant in the 10-year span of time. The study notes that the rate ranged from a low of 22.5 percent (fittingly, in 2020) all the way up to 26.6 percent in 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alaska and Vermont are directly behind Maine, with average vacancies of 21.4 and 21.3 percent, respectively. Perhaps surprisingly, Florida is ranked fourth, clocking in at just over 20 percent vacancies\u2013though the study recognizes that Florida is also the most heavily populated state on the list, adding an asterisk to the state\u2019s rank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

West Virginia marks a substantial drop in average vacancies from the 20s to the teens with an average of 17.7 percent during the decade surveyed; the remaining states\u2013in order, Delaware, Alabama, New Hampshire, Hawaii, and Arizona\u2013all fall within one percent of this rate, signifying a remarkably above-average vacancy rate for the ten states with least-occupied housing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By contrast, California is\u2013unsurprisingly\u2013the country\u2019s least-vacant state, earning an average vacancy rate of 8.5 percent. However, second place for this list goes to Washington at 8.7 percent, indicating a surge in popularity in the last decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iowa ranks third at 9.5 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interestingly enough, both Connecticut and Ohio tied for fourth, earning average scores of 9.91 percent of homes being vacant during the survey. It\u2019s worth noting that Ohio did have a higher vacancy rate\u201313 percent\u2013at its peak, while Connecticut had 7.8 percent at its lowest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The remaining states\u2013Nebraska, Oregon, Illinois, Colorado, Minnesota, and Utah, respectively\u2013ranged from vacancy rates of 10.02 to 10.7. Compared to Arizona\u2013the least-vacant state on the list of the ten most-vacant states in the country, coming in at 16.7 percent\u2013even Utah\u2019s homes demonstrated six percent more occupancy during this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesperson for LAHomes clarified that, while vacancy rates appear to be trending downwards, plenty of these rates have also fluctuated during the past 10 years, with a variety of economic factors<\/a> playing a part in the evolution of these numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest data is in, and new trends on vacant homes are now available – which states are on the top, and which are on the bottom?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337375,"featured_media":21006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[1234,1241,2592],"class_list":["post-21005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-data","tag-real-estate-news","tag-study","tag-vacancy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/08\/Suburb.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21005"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21189,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21005\/revisions\/21189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}