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Table Data - Homeownership Rate (5-year estimate) for Essex County, MA

Title Homeownership Rate (5-year estimate) for Essex County, MA
Series ID HOWNRATEACS025009
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 71.23500752748504
2010-01-01 70.27152863903112
2011-01-01 69.67199050178368
2012-01-01 68.70540573225298
2013-01-01 67.57720557151077
2014-01-01 66.89953309560050
2015-01-01 66.67082321013875
2016-01-01 66.97542983480128
2017-01-01 67.26865311196420
2018-01-01 67.45245184897827
2019-01-01 67.72020705085755
2020-01-01 67.79887134943957
2021-01-01 67.59412798432503
2022-01-01 67.66250845705338

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