Rankings · Housing

Lowest typical age by state

Median year homes here were built.

This measure has no better end. The order describes the states, it does not rank them — see the other direction.

The midpoint year for all housing in the county, from Census table B25035. It says what you would be buying into: wiring, insulation, materials and layout all track the era a house was built in. Read as a description of the whole stock rather than of what is for sale — a county that built heavily in 1965 and again last year shows a middling median that matches neither half.

  1. 1District of Columbia1958
  2. 2New York1958
  3. 3Rhode Island1961
  4. 4Massachusetts1963
  5. 5Pennsylvania1965
  6. 6Connecticut1967
  7. 7New Jersey1969
  8. 8Illinois1970
  9. 9Iowa1971
  10. 10Michigan1971
  11. 11Ohio1971
  12. 12California1975
  13. 13Kansas1975
  14. 14Nebraska1975
  15. 15Wisconsin1975
  16. 16Indiana1976
  17. 17Vermont1976
  18. 18West Virginia1976
  19. 19Maryland1977
  20. 20Maine1977
  21. 21Minnesota1978
  22. 22New Hampshire1979
  23. 23Hawaii1980
  24. 24Missouri1980
  25. 25Wyoming1980
  26. 26Oklahoma1981
  27. 27Oregon1981
  28. 28South Dakota1981
  29. 29Kentucky1982
  30. 30Louisiana1982
  31. 31Montana1982
  32. 32Virginia1983
  33. 33North Dakota1984
  34. 34New Mexico1984
  35. 35Alabama1985
  36. 36Washington1985
  37. 37Alaska1986
  38. 38Colorado1986
  39. 39Delaware1986
  40. 40Mississippi1986
  41. 41Arkansas1987
  42. 42Tennessee1987
  43. 43Florida1988
  44. 44Idaho1990
  45. 45Georgia1991
  46. 46North Carolina1991
  47. 47Texas1991
  48. 48Utah1991
  49. 49Arizona1992
  50. 50South Carolina1992
  51. 51Nevada1996
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau. · How this is built