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

Title Homeownership Rate (5-year estimate) for Worcester County, MA
Series ID HOWNRATEACS025027
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 73.89401026885614
2010-01-01 72.66370001963223
2011-01-01 72.03891130633605
2012-01-01 70.98842028910420
2013-01-01 70.12309171744462
2014-01-01 69.46995478664064
2015-01-01 68.95484503596718
2016-01-01 69.03239450795434
2017-01-01 69.13908342267948
2018-01-01 69.56338463674282
2019-01-01 69.72803623667076
2020-01-01 70.42262181891653
2021-01-01 70.38206287128892
2022-01-01 70.23787199053704

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