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Table HC9.1 Household demographics of U.S. homes by housing unit type, 2015¹

Release date: February 2017
Revised date: May 2018

	Number of housing units (million)
		Housing unit type
	Total U.S.²	Single-family detached	Single-family attached	Apartment (2- to 4-unit building)	Apartment (5 or more unit building)	Mobile home
All homes	118.2	73.9	7.0	9.4	21.1	6.8
Number of household members
1 member	28.7	12.6	2.0	3.4	9.0	1.7
2 members	42.7	28.4	2.4	2.4	7.2	2.4
3 members	19.4	13.1	1.2	1.6	2.5	1.1
4 members	15.5	11.2	0.9	1.0	1.7	0.8
5 members	7.2	5.2	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.4
6 or more members	4.6	3.4	0.2	0.4	Q	0.4
Children under 18 in household
Yes	37.7	25.9	2.3	2.9	4.4	2.2
No	80.5	48.0	4.7	6.5	16.7	4.5
2015 annual household income
Less than $20,000	22.9	8.0	1.4	3.4	7.1	2.8
$20,000 to $39,999	27.3	15.3	1.9	2.7	5.3	2.1
$40,000 to $59,999	18.4	12.2	1.2	1.4	2.6	1.0
$60,000 to $79,999	15.2	10.6	0.8	1.0	2.4	0.4
$80,000 to $99,999	9.7	7.5	0.5	0.4	1.1	Q
$100,000 to $119,999	8.1	6.5	0.3	Q	0.9	Q
$120,000 to $139,999	5.4	4.4	0.3	Q	0.6	Q
$140,000 or more	11.2	9.3	0.6	Q	1.1	Q
Ownership of housing unit³
Owned	74.5	62.5	3.7	1.2	2.1	5.0
Rented	43.7	11.3	3.3	8.2	19.0	1.8
Payment method for energy bills
All paid by household	105.8	72.8	6.4	7.1	13.1	6.5
Some paid by household, some included in rent or condo fee	6.1	0.4	0.3	1.2	4.2	Q
All included in rent or condo fee	5.5	0.4	0.3	1.0	3.6	0.2
Some other method	0.9	0.4	Q	Q	0.2	Q
Age of householder⁴
Younger than 25 years	6.0	1.6	0.4	1.1	2.8	0.2
25 to 34 years	18.0	7.9	1.1	2.4	5.6	1.0
35 to 44 years	18.5	11.3	1.4	1.8	2.9	1.0
45 to 54 years	21.7	15.5	1.0	1.2	2.8	1.2
55 to 64 years	24.4	16.7	1.1	1.5	3.2	1.9
65 to 74 years	17.5	12.7	1.1	1.1	1.6	1.1
75 years or older	12.1	8.2	0.9	0.3	2.3	0.4
Ethnicity of householder⁴
Hispanic or Latino	15.0	7.7	0.8	2.0	3.6	1.0
Not Hispanic or Latino	103.2	66.2	6.2	7.4	17.6	5.8
Race of householder^{4, 5}
White	95.4	63.6	5.2	6.3	14.6	5.8
Hispanic or Latino	13.8	7.3	0.8	1.7	3.2	0.8
Not Hispanic or Latino	81.6	56.3	4.4	4.5	11.4	4.9
Black or African American	13.6	5.7	1.1	2.1	4.0	0.7
Hispanic or Latino	0.5	Q	Q	Q	Q	Q
Not Hispanic or Latino	13.1	5.6	1.1	2.1	3.8	0.6
Asian	4.9	2.3	0.5	0.6	1.5	Q
American Indian or Alaska Native	1.3	0.9	Q	Q	Q	Q
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	0.4	0.2	Q	Q	Q	Q
More than one race	2.5	1.2	0.1	Q	0.8	Q
Typical number of weekdays someone is at home
0 days a week	19.5	11.2	1.2	1.6	4.7	0.8
1 day a week	9.0	4.8	0.5	0.9	2.4	0.4
2 days a week	12.0	7.4	0.8	1.0	2.2	0.6
3 days a week	6.9	4.0	0.5	0.8	1.4	Q
4 days a week	5.3	3.5	0.3	0.4	0.8	0.2
5 days a week	65.5	42.9	3.7	4.7	9.7	4.5
¹Housing characteristics data were collected between August 2015 and April 2016. ²Total U.S. includes all primary occupied housing units in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Vacant housing units, seasonal units, second homes, military houses, and group quarters are excluded. ³Rented includes households that occupy their primary housing units without paying rent. ⁴A householder is a person in whose name the home is owned or rented. These characteristics refer to the householder that completed the RECS questionnaire. ⁵Householders were permitted to select more than one racial category to describe themselves. These householders are only included as More than one race. Q = Data withheld because either the Relative Standard Error (RSE) was greater than 50% or fewer than 10 cases responded. N = No cases responded. Notes: Because of rounding, data may not sum to totals. See RECS Terminology for definition of terms used in these tables. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Office of Energy Consumption and Efficiency Statistics, Forms EIA-457A and EIA-457C of the 2015 Residential Energy Consumption Survey.