ACS Data Users Group

Hi all - I am a student looking to find an ACS dataset that has the homeownership rate of each county in the United States. Does such data exist? And if so, where can I find it?

Thanks!

If you want everything in one place for the entire US, look here

www.census.gov/.../summary-file.html

www.census.gov/.../acs_summary_file_handbook_2021.pdf

You will need to be a programmer with access to software to process these files.

table B25003 is "Tenure" i.e. Renter/Owner

If you only want the data for a single county

https://data.census.gov/table?q=B25003

Sorry if this is not a very satisfying answer. Maybe someone else has a simple way to do this.

Dave Dorer

Yes, B25003 is a good table to use, since it's only occupied housing units as the universe. Homeownership rates generally do not include vacant housing units in either the numerator or denominator. To calculate it:

owner-occupied housing units / total occupied housing units * 100

if using table B25003, it would be B25003_002E / B25003_001E * 100

Also, if you want it for each U.S. county, you will be interested in the 5-year estimates rather than the 1-year estimates, since the 1-year only has estimates for large counties.

Thank you Diana and David - this is exactly what I was looking for!

Also, as you can always go deeper (rent as a percent income etc. (B25031,25058,25070,25071, 25105) I believe all these also go to the county level. You also get an A for finding this group, it's a great resource.