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Lowest vacancy rate by state

Share of homes that are vacant.

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

Every housing unit is counted as occupied or vacant, and this is the vacant share. It reads two opposite ways: economic decline, or a tourist economy where houses stand empty most of the year. The second-home share beside it separates the two — a dying town and a ski town both post high vacancy. From Census table B25002.

  1. 1Connecticut7.0%
  2. 2Washington7.3%
  3. 3California7.5%
  4. 4New Jersey7.5%
  5. 5Oregon7.5%
  6. 6Nebraska7.6%
  7. 7Illinois7.7%
  8. 8Maryland7.7%
  9. 9Massachusetts8.1%
  10. 10Ohio8.1%
  11. 11Utah8.1%
  12. 12Colorado8.3%
  13. 13Iowa8.5%
  14. 14Virginia8.7%
  15. 15Indiana8.8%
  16. 16Rhode Island9.1%
  17. 17Kansas9.2%
  18. 18Pennsylvania9.2%
  19. 19Minnesota9.3%
  20. 20Nevada9.3%
  21. 21Texas9.4%
  22. 22New York10.0%
  23. 23District of Columbia10.1%
  24. 24Tennessee10.2%
  25. 25Georgia10.3%
  26. 26Idaho10.3%
  27. 27Kentucky10.3%
  28. 28South Dakota10.5%
  29. 29Arizona10.6%
  30. 30Wisconsin10.8%
  31. 31Missouri11.2%
  32. 32Michigan11.8%
  33. 33Oklahoma12.0%
  34. 34North Dakota12.2%
  35. 35Wyoming12.2%
  36. 36North Carolina12.5%
  37. 37New Mexico12.5%
  38. 38Montana13.2%
  39. 39Hawaii13.3%
  40. 40South Carolina13.3%
  41. 41Delaware13.4%
  42. 42Arkansas13.5%
  43. 43New Hampshire14.3%
  44. 44Louisiana14.4%
  45. 45Alabama14.6%
  46. 46Mississippi14.6%
  47. 47Florida14.7%
  48. 48West Virginia15.4%
  49. 49Alaska17.7%
  50. 50Vermont19.4%
  51. 51Maine20.6%
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau. · How this is built