US Counties With the Highest Owner-occupied Housing Units
3,219 US counties ranked by owner-occupied housing units, from highest to lowest. First are Keweenaw County, MI (474.83), Terrell County, TX (472.39) and Montmorency County, MI (445.69). The middle one of the 3,219 has 288.98.
What this measures
Lived-in homes where the people living there own the home. Source: Census ACS 5-year.
This is a count, so it is ranked per 1,000 residents. Ranked by the raw total, it would just list the biggest counties.
For most measures, a national ranking mostly sorts places by income and by how urban they are. Each county’s own page compares it with the 50 counties most like it instead, which is often the fairer view.
The 100 highest counties
Every state, highest first
Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.
| Rank | State | Per 1,000 residents |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maine | 316.56 |
| 2 | Vermont | 304.00 |
| 3 | West Virginia | 300.42 |
| 4 | Wyoming | 295.47 |
| 5 | Michigan | 293.11 |
| 6 | Iowa | 291.81 |
| 7 | Minnesota | 289.22 |
| 8 | New Hampshire | 287.97 |
| 9 | Delaware | 284.67 |
| 10 | Montana | 284.39 |
| 11 | South Carolina | 283.71 |
| 12 | Wisconsin | 281.82 |
| 13 | Pennsylvania | 279.49 |
| 14 | Indiana | 276.95 |
| 15 | Ohio | 274.67 |
| 16 | South Dakota | 273.69 |
| 17 | Missouri | 273.68 |
| 18 | Alabama | 272.46 |
| 19 | Kentucky | 271.26 |
| 20 | New Mexico | 270.51 |
| 21 | Mississippi | 266.41 |
| 22 | Nebraska | 266.34 |
| 23 | Tennessee | 265.64 |
| 24 | Colorado | 265.40 |
| 25 | Idaho | 265.22 |
| 26 | North Dakota | 264.47 |
| 27 | Kansas | 264.27 |
| 28 | Illinois | 263.38 |
| 29 | North Carolina | 262.53 |
| 30 | Florida | 262.52 |
| 31 | Connecticut | 261.21 |
| 32 | Louisiana | 259.77 |
| 33 | Puerto Rico | 259.37 |
| 34 | Arkansas | 259.35 |
| 35 | Virginia | 258.10 |
| 36 | Arizona | 257.73 |
| 37 | Maryland | 255.84 |
| 38 | Oregon | 254.39 |
| 39 | Oklahoma | 254.10 |
| 40 | Rhode Island | 252.28 |
| 41 | Washington | 249.28 |
| 42 | Massachusetts | 247.27 |
| 43 | Alaska | 243.02 |
| 44 | Georgia | 242.04 |
| 45 | New Jersey | 239.07 |
| 46 | Utah | 232.15 |
| 47 | Texas | 226.84 |
| 48 | Nevada | 223.47 |
| 49 | Hawaii | 211.58 |
| 50 | New York | 209.58 |
| 51 | District of Columbia | 196.84 |
| 52 | California | 190.99 |
More on owner-occupied housing units
- US Counties With the Lowest Owner-occupied Housing Units
- Owner-occupied housing units by US county: map by year and what it goes with
A ranking describes places, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All US rankings.