What the Data Shows
Homes vacant for sale within the homeowner housing inventory are compared across the 50 states for 2024. The measure is vacant units for sale only as a share of owner-occupied units plus units for sale only and units sold but not yet occupied and is reported as a percentage. Florida has the highest estimate at 1.7%, 0.1 percentage points above South Dakota. North Dakota ranks ninth at 1.1%, making the leading estimate 1.48 times as high; close estimates should be read with their reported 90% margins of error.
Data table
Unit: percent of homeowner housing inventory · Period: 2024
| Rank | Entry | Value | Period |
|---|
| 1 | Florida | 1.7% | 2024 |
| 2 | South Dakota | 1.5% | 2024 |
| 3 | North Carolina | 1.3% | 2024 |
| 4 | Idaho | 1.3% | 2024 |
| 5 | Texas | 1.3% | 2024 |
| 6 | Oklahoma | 1.3% | 2024 |
| 7 | Louisiana | 1.2% | 2024 |
| 8 | Alabama | 1.2% | 2024 |
| 9 | North Dakota | 1.1% | 2024 |
Sources
Source 1: B25004
Publisher: U.S. Census Bureau
Dataset/table: B25004
Source 2: B25003
Publisher: U.S. Census Bureau
Dataset/table: B25003
Data notes & caveats
ACS values are survey estimates with 90% margins of error. The ranking contains the 50 states only; District of Columbia is a federal district and Puerto Rico is a territory. The percentage denominator is homeowner housing inventory, not a total formed by adding the ranked percentages.
Methodology
For each state, numerator components B25004:[4] were divided by the homeowner housing inventory denominator B25003:[2];B25004:[4,5] and multiplied by 100. Component margins of error were combined by root-sum-square; percentage margins follow the Census published proportion procedure with the plus-term fallback when required.
Source consistency notes
Every row uses the 2024 ACS 1-year product, the same detailed-table concept, the same state geography class and the same percentage definition.
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