Type of structure

dwelling

Source

General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org

Details

Question 1609. DWELLING TYPE.

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	iap	2-family house, 2 units one above the other	2-family house, 2 units side-by-side	apartment house (5 or more units, 3 stories or less)	apartment house (5 or more units, 4 stories or more)	apartment in a partly commercial structure	detached 3-4 family house	detached single family house	no answer	other	row house (3 or more units in an attached row)	trailer	don't know	not available in this year	Total
1972	1613	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1613
1973	1504	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1504
1974	1484	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1484
1975	1490	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1490
1976	1499	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1499
1977	1530	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1530
1978	1532	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1532
1980	1468	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1468
1982	-	73	88	197	59	8	36	1155	17	11	96	120	-	-	1860
1983	-	53	44	150	49	12	32	1065	15	12	85	82	-	-	1599
1984	-	49	66	165	48	12	34	935	12	17	49	86	-	-	1473
1985	-	45	49	188	48	17	28	935	19	15	72	118	-	-	1534
1986	-	54	39	153	45	13	26	936	20	19	70	95	-	-	1470
1987	-	50	73	207	84	14	31	1140	14	27	83	96	-	-	1819
1988	-	52	52	177	56	8	39	848	27	10	99	113	-	-	1481
1989	-	41	44	136	41	5	24	1006	27	39	57	117	-	-	1537
1990	-	39	45	154	59	9	27	879	12	23	40	84	1	-	1372
1991	-	58	62	171	51	13	45	953	14	8	46	95	1	-	1517
1993	-	37	45	189	57	4	31	1043	1	13	78	108	-	-	1606
1994	-	86	113	362	150	16	56	1790	15	19	159	195	31	-	2992
1996	-	77	100	361	155	14	54	1700	30	30	153	218	12	-	2904
1998	-	66	111	451	158	18	55	1609	22	26	139	173	4	-	2832
2000	-	72	98	384	169	8	71	1574	57	20	167	193	4	-	2817
2002	-	46	112	484	160	14	50	1492	-	52	129	197	29	-	2765
2004	-	52	106	334	59	12	54	1841	9	23	117	158	47	-	2812
2006	-	76	152	549	152	25	76	2853	7	65	220	299	36	-	4510
2008	-	25	62	224	73	8	34	1336	3	23	89	118	28	-	2023
2010	-	27	97	270	69	10	30	1244	8	25	102	107	55	-	2044
2012	-	53	61	246	78	7	48	1269	6	4	74	128	-	-	1974
2014	-	30	68	312	125	11	29	1525	6	23	102	116	191	-	2538
2016	-	62	104	400	119	9	38	1840	2	14	129	150	-	-	2867
2018	-	26	87	307	98	7	32	1519	1	6	127	138	-	-	2348
2021	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4032	4032
2022	1642	23	58	278	99	10	18	1069	-	26	90	113	118	-	3544
2024	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3309	3309
Total	13762	1272	1936	6849	2261	284	998	33556	344	550	2572	3417	557	7341	75699

Values

• 1 trailer

• 2 detached single family house

• 3 2-family house, 2 units side-by-side

• 4 2-family house, 2 units one above the other

• 5 detached 3-4 family house

• 6 row house (3 or more units in an attached row)

• 7 apartment house (5 or more units, 3 stories or less)

• 8 apartment house (5 or more units, 4 stories or more)

• 9 apartment in a partly commercial structure

• 10 other

• NA(d) don't know

• NA(i) iap

• NA(j) I don't have a job

• NA(m) dk, na, iap

• NA(n) no answer

• NA(p) not imputable

• NA(r) refused

• NA(s) skipped on web

• NA(u) uncodeable

• NA(x) not available in this release

• NA(y) not available in this year

• NA(z) see codebook