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Owner-occupied housing unit rate, 2014-2018 - (Percent)
County
Value
Allen
71.1
Anderson
74.2
Atchison
68.4
Barber
70.8
Barton
69.8
Bourbon
69.9
Brown
73.0
Butler
73.7
Chase
79.2
Chautauqua
78.6
Cherokee
74.1
Cheyenne
79.2
Clark
71.4
Clay
76.7
Cloud
70.9
Coffey
77.1
Comanche
80.6
Cowley
66.5
Crawford
58.4
Decatur
72.0
Dickinson
69.8
Doniphan
73.0
Douglas
51.8
Edwards
78.6
Elk
79.9
Ellis
61.3
Ellsworth
75.1
Finney
62.5
Ford
62.4
Franklin
71.2
Geary
37.3
Gove
77.1
Graham
79.4
Grant
78.0
Gray
75.5
Greeley
62.1
Greenwood
73.7
Hamilton
69.1
Harper
71.7
Harvey
71.8
Haskell
76.1
Hodgeman
77.0
Jackson
75.6
Jefferson
82.0
Jewell
81.8
Johnson
69.1
Kearny
76.3
Kingman
78.7
Kiowa
71.3
Labette
70.4
Lane
77.1
Leavenworth
67.4
Lincoln
80.4
Linn
77.6
Logan
71.3
Lyon
58.9
Marion
79.5
Marshall
77.0
McPherson
69.9
Meade
69.4
Miami
78.5
Mitchell
74.3
Montgomery
68.9
Morris
78.4
Morton
69.9
Nemaha
74.0
Neosho
70.5
Ness
85.5
Norton
74.1
Osage
74.4
Osborne
75.3
Ottawa
81.2
Pawnee
68.1
Phillips
77.2
Pottawatomie
76.8
Pratt
68.5
Rawlins
75.9
Reno
68.7
Republic
74.4
Rice
74.4
Riley
42.4
Rooks
79.0
Rush
77.0
Russell
80.7
Saline
67.5
Scott
74.3
Sedgwick
63.6
Seward
68.5
Shawnee
64.8
Sheridan
73.7
Sherman
64.3
Smith
78.2
Stafford
81.9
Stanton
81.7
Stevens
68.8
Sumner
73.5
Thomas
72.3
Trego
77.0
Wabaunsee
85.3
Wallace
77.7
Washington
78.6
Wichita
73.5
Wilson
72.0
Woodson
77.6
Wyandotte
57.1
Value for Kansas (Percent): 66.3%
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.
