NYC Housing Stock / distribution of renters + owners, coops, condos, houses

THX to REBNY for sending along a pie chart from the US Census Bureau 2005 Housing Survey of the distribution of housing types in the City as a whole (beggars would want to see Manhattan only, but we can’t be choosers here).

Couple of interesting things, at first blush. REBNY highlighted the fact that 67% of the City’s housing units are rental units, while another 21% are "conventional homes". City-wide, there are only 76,060 condo units and 309,195 coop apartments, a 1:4 ratio. With 3.1 million households, the average household size is less than 2.7 people — I suspect that number is well below the national average.

Interesting stuff.

(C) Sandy Mattingly 2007