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Monday, June 03, 2013

Highlights of Annual 2012 Characteristics of New Housing


Of the 483,000 single-family homes completed in 2012:
  • 432,000 had air-conditioning.
  • 63,000 had two or fewer bedrooms and 198,000 had four bedrooms or more.
  • 34,000 had one and one-half bathrooms or less, whereas 145,000 homes had three or more bathrooms.
  • 142,000 had a full or partial basement, while 78,000 had a crawl space, and 263,000 had a slab or other type of foundation.
  • 266,000 had two or more stories.
  • 278,000 had a warm-air furnace and 183,000 had a heat pump as the primary heating system.
  • 285,000 heating systems were powered by gas and 189,000 were powered by electricity.
The average single-family house completed was 2,505 square feet.