US Counties With the Highest Share in the Same House a Year Ago
3,144 US counties ranked by share in the same house a year ago, from highest to lowest. First are Loving County, TX (100%), Taliaferro County, GA (99.9%) and Terrell County, TX (99.3%). The middle one of the 3,144 has 88.1%.
What this measures
The percentage of residents who lived in the same home a year earlier. The middle county is 88%, so the low end is the interesting one: college towns, military bases and resort areas turn over fastest. Read it as the opposite of moving around, not as good or bad. A place nobody wants to leave and a place nobody can afford to leave look the same here. Source: Census ACS 5-year.
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 | % |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Jersey | 89.2% |
| 2 | New York | 89% |
| 3 | West Virginia | 88.2% |
| 4 | Rhode Island | 88.1% |
| 5 | New Hampshire | 88% |
| 6 | Connecticut | 88% |
| 7 | Pennsylvania | 88% |
| 8 | Maine | 88% |
| 9 | Delaware | 88% |
| 10 | California | 87.9% |
| 11 | Mississippi | 87.8% |
| 12 | Illinois | 87.6% |
| 13 | Michigan | 87.5% |
| 14 | Maryland | 87.3% |
| 15 | Massachusetts | 87.2% |
| 16 | Louisiana | 87.1% |
| 17 | Vermont | 87.1% |
| 18 | Wisconsin | 87% |
| 19 | New Mexico | 87% |
| 20 | Alabama | 86.8% |
| 21 | Ohio | 86.6% |
| 22 | Hawaii | 86.5% |
| 23 | Minnesota | 86.4% |
| 24 | Kentucky | 86.2% |
| 25 | South Carolina | 86% |
| 26 | Indiana | 86% |
| 27 | Missouri | 86% |
| 28 | Arkansas | 85.9% |
| 29 | North Carolina | 85.8% |
| 30 | Georgia | 85.8% |
| 31 | Iowa | 85.8% |
| 32 | Tennessee | 85.7% |
| 33 | Virginia | 85.6% |
| 34 | South Dakota | 85.4% |
| 35 | Nebraska | 85.3% |
| 36 | Florida | 85.2% |
| 37 | Montana | 84.9% |
| 38 | Oregon | 84.7% |
| 39 | Texas | 84.7% |
| 40 | Utah | 84.4% |
| 41 | Arizona | 84.3% |
| 42 | Kansas | 84.2% |
| 43 | Oklahoma | 84.2% |
| 44 | Alaska | 84.1% |
| 45 | Nevada | 84.1% |
| 46 | Washington | 84% |
| 47 | Idaho | 83.5% |
| 48 | Wyoming | 83.4% |
| 49 | Colorado | 82.6% |
| 50 | North Dakota | 82.6% |
| 51 | District of Columbia | 79.5% |
More on share in the same house a year ago
- US Counties With the Lowest Share in the Same House a Year Ago
- Share in the same house a year ago 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.