Federal Reserve Economic Data

Table Data - Homeownership Rate (5-year estimate) for Penobscot County, ME

Title Homeownership Rate (5-year estimate) for Penobscot County, ME
Series ID HOWNRATEACS023019
Source U.S. Census Bureau
Release Homeownership Rate (Not a Press Release)
Seasonal Adjustment Not Seasonally Adjusted
Frequency Annual
Units Rate
Date Range 2009-01-01 to 2022-01-01
Last Updated 2023-12-07 10:20 AM CST
Notes The homeownership rate is computed by dividing the estimated total population in owner-occupied units by the estimated total population (ACS 5-year variables B25008_002E and B25008_001E from table B25008, respectively).

A housing unit is owner-occupied if the owner or co-owner lives in the unit, even if it is mortgaged or not fully paid for. A housing unit is classified as occupied if it is the current place of residence of the person or group of people living in it at the time of interview, or if the occupants are only temporarily absent from the residence for two months or less (e.g., on vacation or a business trip). If all the people staying in the unit at the time of the interview are staying there for two months or less, the unit is considered to be temporarily occupied and classified as "vacant."

Multiyear estimates from the American Community Survey (ACS) are "period" estimates derived from a data sample collected over a period of time, as opposed to "point-in-time" estimates such as those from past decennial censuses. ACS 5-year estimate includes data collected over a 60-month period. The date of the data is the end of the 5-year period. For example, a value dated 2014 represents data from 2010 to 2014. However, they do not describe any specific day, month, or year within that time period.

Multiyear estimates require some considerations that single-year estimates do not. For example, multiyear estimates released in consecutive years consist mostly of overlapping years and shared data. The 2010-2014 ACS 5-year estimates share sample data from 2011 through 2014 with the 2011-2015 ACS 5-year estimates. Because of this overlap, users should use extreme caution in making comparisons with consecutive years of multiyear estimates.

Please see "Section 3: Understanding and Using ACS Single-Year and Multiyear Estimates" on publication page 13 (file page 19) of the 2018 ACS General Handbook for a more thorough clarification.
DATE VALUE
2009-01-01 74.86617728492524
2010-01-01 74.66097559299200
2011-01-01 74.10398857478663
2012-01-01 71.38339274395273
2013-01-01 71.00375803954468
2014-01-01 71.46655939125750
2015-01-01 71.33675390955487
2016-01-01 71.62697462491533
2017-01-01 73.24834632891896
2018-01-01 73.79219561951233
2019-01-01 73.26306791940387
2020-01-01 73.73254731616507
2021-01-01 73.77972551551703
2022-01-01 73.58938729130873

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