U.S. States with the Highest Housing-Vacancy Shares, 2024

U.S. vacant housing units as a share of all housing units; % by state, 2024.

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

RankEntryValuePeriod
1Maine19.5%2024
2Alaska16.9%2024
3Vermont16.8%2024
4West Virginia14.5%2024
5Florida14.0%2024
6Hawaii13.9%2024
7Louisiana13.6%2024
8Alabama13.5%2024
9Delaware13.5%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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