What the Data Shows
Vacant housing units are compared across the 50 states for 2024. The measure is vacant housing units as a share of all housing units and is reported as a percentage. Maine has the highest estimate at 19.5%, 2.7 percentage points above Alaska. Delaware ranks ninth at 13.5%, making the leading estimate 1.45 times as high; close estimates should be read with their reported 90% margins of error.
Data table
Unit: percent of housing units · Period: 2024
| Rank | Entry | Value | Period |
|---|
| 1 | Maine | 19.5% | 2024 |
| 2 | Alaska | 16.9% | 2024 |
| 3 | Vermont | 16.8% | 2024 |
| 4 | West Virginia | 14.5% | 2024 |
| 5 | Florida | 14.0% | 2024 |
| 6 | Hawaii | 13.9% | 2024 |
| 7 | Louisiana | 13.6% | 2024 |
| 8 | Alabama | 13.5% | 2024 |
| 9 | Delaware | 13.5% | 2024 |
Sources
Source 1: 2024 ACS 1-Year Detailed Table B25002
Publisher: U.S. Census Bureau
Dataset/table: B25002
Units: counts with 90% margins of error
Date checked: 2026-07-15
Evidence: Provides the B25002 state estimates and 90% margins of error used to construct this percentage.
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 housing units, not a total formed by adding the ranked percentages.
Methodology
For each state, numerator components B25002:[3] were divided by the housing units denominator B25002:[1] 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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