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Owner-occupied housing unit rate, 2014-2018 - (Percent)
County
Value
Adair
76.7
Adams
77.3
Allamakee
77.7
Appanoose
73.3
Audubon
77.7
Benton
82.3
Black Hawk
65.7
Boone
76.8
Bremer
82.0
Buchanan
78.3
Buena Vista
66.6
Butler
79.1
Calhoun
77.9
Carroll
76.9
Cass
69.3
Cedar
80.5
Cerro Gordo
69.1
Cherokee
74.1
Chickasaw
80.2
Clarke
70.8
Clay
68.8
Clayton
75.0
Clinton
74.2
Crawford
73.0
Dallas
74.4
Davis
82.9
Decatur
66.1
Delaware
82.9
Des Moines
72.5
Dickinson
79.0
Dubuque
72.4
Emmet
77.1
Fayette
75.4
Floyd
72.2
Franklin
74.3
Fremont
74.1
Greene
74.2
Grundy
79.5
Guthrie
79.4
Hamilton
72.9
Hancock
77.9
Hardin
77.1
Harrison
74.8
Henry
71.0
Howard
79.1
Humboldt
74.2
Ida
75.8
Iowa
78.1
Jackson
78.9
Jasper
73.9
Jefferson
67.1
Johnson
59.7
Jones
75.6
Keokuk
76.9
Kossuth
76.2
Lee
74.3
Linn
74.4
Louisa
76.7
Lucas
77.2
Lyon
83.4
Madison
78.5
Mahaska
71.2
Marion
70.5
Marshall
71.2
Mills
78.0
Mitchell
82.7
Monona
71.1
Monroe
78.0
Montgomery
68.6
Muscatine
72.9
O'Brien
71.9
Osceola
75.8
Page
72.5
Palo Alto
74.3
Plymouth
78.7
Pocahontas
77.3
Polk
67.2
Pottawattamie
68.2
Poweshiek
69.3
Ringgold
77.3
Sac
79.1
Scott
69.5
Shelby
77.5
Sioux
79.8
Story
52.8
Tama
76.3
Taylor
76.5
Union
70.8
Van Buren
81.8
Wapello
72.3
Warren
77.9
Washington
70.8
Wayne
81.6
Webster
67.5
Winnebago
73.5
Winneshiek
79.1
Woodbury
65.6
Worth
77.3
Wright
71.5
Value for Iowa (Percent): 71.1%
Data item: Owner-occupied housing unit rate, 2014-2018
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) and Puerto Rico Community Survey (PRCS), 5-Year Estimates. The PRCS is part of the Census Bureau's ACS, customized for Puerto Rico. Both Surveys are updated every year.
Definition
Owner-Occupied - 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. The owner or co-owner must live in the unit and usually is Person 1 on the questionnaire. The unit is "Owned by you or someone in this household with a mortgage or loan" if it is being purchased with a mortgage or some other debt arrangement such as a deed of trust, trust deed, contract to purchase, land contract, or purchase agreement. The unit also is considered owned with a mortgage if it is built on leased land and there is a mortgage on the unit. Mobile homes occupied by owners with installment loan balances also are included in this category. For the complete definition, go to ACS subject definitions "Tenure."
The homeownership rate is computed by dividing the number of owner-occupied housing units by the number of occupied housing units or households.
Source and Accuracy
This Fact is based on data collected in the American Community Survey (ACS) and the Puerto Rico Community Survey (PRCS) conducted annually by the U.S. Census Bureau. A sample of over 3.5 million housing unit addresses is interviewed each year over a 12 month period. This Fact (estimate) is based on five years of ACS and PRCS sample data and describes the average value of person, household and housing unit characteristics over this period of collection.
Statistics from all surveys are subject to sampling and nonsampling error. Sampling error is the uncertainty between an estimate based on a sample and the corresponding value that would be obtained if the estimate were based on the entire population (as from a census). Measures of sampling error are provided in the form of margins of error for all estimates included with ACS and PRCS published products. The Census Bureau recommends that data users incorporate this information into their analyses, as sampling error in survey estimates could impact the conclusions drawn from the results. The data for each geographic area are presented together with margins of error at Using margins of error. A more detailed explanation of margins of error and a demonstration of how to use them is provided below.
For more information on sampling and estimation methodology, confidentiality, and sampling and nonsampling errors, please see the Multiyear Accuracy (US) and the Multiyear Accuracy (Puerto Rico) documents at "Documentation - Accuracy of the data."
Margin of Error
As mentioned above, ACS estimates are based on a sample and are subject to sampling error. The margin of error measures the degree of uncertainty caused by sampling error. The margin of error is used with an ACS estimate to construct a confidence interval about the estimate. The interval is formed by adding the margin of error to the estimate (the upper bound) and subtracting the margin of error from the estimate (the lower bound). It is expected with 90 percent confidence that the interval will contain the full population value of the estimate. The following example is for demonstrating purposes only. Suppose the ACS reported that the percentage of people in a state who were 25 years and older with a bachelor's degree was 21.3 percent and that the margin of error associated with this estimate was 0.7 percent. By adding and subtracting the margin of error from the estimate, we calculate the 90-percent confidence interval for this estimate:
Therefore, we can be 90 percent confident that the percent of the population 25 years and older having a bachelor's degree in a state falls somewhere between 20.6 percent and 22.0 percent.
