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Table Data - Homeownership Rate (5-year estimate) for Lancaster County, PA

Title Homeownership Rate (5-year estimate) for Lancaster County, PA
Series ID HOWNRATEACS042071
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 10:15 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 74.20573256589715
2010-01-01 73.91817173589683
2011-01-01 73.65975646995192
2012-01-01 73.38095615007124
2013-01-01 72.82281928250592
2014-01-01 72.79529955211535
2015-01-01 71.94222453733737
2016-01-01 71.45127098265985
2017-01-01 71.45993288103756
2018-01-01 71.57855139867314
2019-01-01 71.41162694065652
2020-01-01 73.02594690198883
2021-01-01 73.22521913910764
2022-01-01 73.58014817776889

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