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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.
District of Columbia has the lowest published typical age in this comparison, at 1958. The next states shown are New York (1958) and Rhode Island (1961).
The table orders 51 states by median year homes here were built. It describes one published measure, not an overall judgment about where to live.
Use the result as a starting point, then compare the underlying source, dates, and local county figures before making a decision. 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.
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<iframe src="https://movermath.com/embed/typical-age" width="100%" height="420" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="Median year homes here were built by state"></iframe>Source: U.S. Census Bureau. · How this is built