As discussed in Eye on Housing last year, builders have been including decks on fewer and fewer new homes recently. According to NAHB tabulation of data from the HUD/Census Bureau Survey of Construction (SOC), well over 20% of all single-family homes started had decks from 2005 through 2018—as many as 27% in 2007 and 2008. After 2017, however, the share… Read More ›
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Patios Continue to Substitute for Decks on New Homes
As a previous post has shown, the share of new homes with patios increased for the sixth year in a row in 2021, to a post-2004 high of 63.0 percent At the same time, the share with decks was trending in the opposite direction, declining for the fifth year in a row to a post-2004 low. Of the roughly 1.1… Read More ›
Share of New Homes with Decks Drops Below 20 Percent
Of the roughly 990,000 single-family homes started in 2020, only 19.3 percent included decks, according to NAHB tabulation of data from the Survey of Construction (SOC, conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau and partially funded by HUD). This marks the third year in a row the share of new homes with decks has declined, and the first time the share… Read More ›
Share of New Homes with Patios Continues to Edge Up
Of the roughly 879,000 single-family homes started in 2019, 59.6 percent included patios, according to NAHB tabulation of data from the Survey of Construction (SOC, conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau and partially funded by HUD). Once again, this set a new record high (NAHB began tracking the series in 2005), and once again the record was set by a… Read More ›
Share of New Homes with Decks Declines Again
Of the roughly 879,000 single-family homes started in 2019, 20.3 percent included decks, according to NAHB tabulation of data from the Survey of Construction (SOC, conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau and partially funded by HUD). This is down over two percentage points from percentage points from the 22.6 percent recorded a year earlier, which in turn was down over… Read More ›
Share of New Homes with Patios Edges Up Again
Of the roughly 876,000 single-family homes started in 2018, 59.4 percent came with patios, according to NAHB tabulation of data from the Survey of Construction (SOC, conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau and partially funded by HUD). This is the highest the number has been since NAHB began tracking the series in 2005. The incidence of patios on new homes… Read More ›
Share of New Homes with Decks Declines in 2018
Of the roughly 876,000 single-family homes started in 2018, 22.6 percent included decks, according to NAHB tabulation of data from the Survey of Construction (SOC, conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau and partially funded by HUD). This is down over a full percentage point from he 23.8 percent recorded a year earlier. From 2005 to 2008, the share of new… Read More ›
Share of New Homes with Decks Remains Stable
Of the roughly 850,000 single-family homes started in 2017, 23.8 percent included decks, according to NAHB tabulation of data from the Survey of Construction (SOC, conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau and partially funded by HUD). This is little changed from the 23.7 percent recorded a year earlier. From 2005 to 2008, the share of new homes with decks was… Read More ›
Share of New Homes with Decks Edges Up
Of the roughly 780,000 single-family homes started in 2016, 23.7 percent came with decks, according to NAHB tabulation of data from the Survey of Construction (SOC, conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau and partially funded by HUD). This is up slightly from 23.3 percent of single-family homes started in 2015. From a slightly longer historic perspective, the share of new homes… Read More ›
In New England, Two-Thirds of New Homes Include Decks
Of the 714,500 single-family homes started in 2015, 64 percent included porches and 23 percent included decks, according to data from the Survey of Construction (which is conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau and partially funded by HUD). NAHB tabulation of these data show that porches have become somewhat more common on new homes over the past decade. In 2005,… Read More ›