US Counties With the Lowest Occupied Housing Units
3,219 US counties ranked by occupied housing units, from lowest to highest. First are Aleutians West Census Area, AK (188.68), Oglala Lakota County, SD (201.00) and North Slope Borough, AK (202.46). The middle one of the 3,219 has 394.32.
What this measures
Homes and apartments that someone lives in. 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 lowest counties
Every state, lowest first
Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.
| Rank | State | Per 1,000 residents |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Utah | 328.68 |
| 2 | Hawaii | 338.25 |
| 3 | California | 342.36 |
| 4 | Texas | 362.58 |
| 5 | Alaska | 364.95 |
| 6 | Idaho | 366.46 |
| 7 | Georgia | 370.34 |
| 8 | New Jersey | 375.35 |
| 9 | Nevada | 376.76 |
| 10 | Maryland | 379.13 |
| 11 | Puerto Rico | 380.72 |
| 12 | Mississippi | 383.47 |
| 13 | Virginia | 384.21 |
| 14 | Arizona | 384.80 |
| 15 | Louisiana | 385.89 |
| 16 | New York | 385.91 |
| 17 | Oklahoma | 386.16 |
| 18 | Alabama | 389.59 |
| 19 | Florida | 389.94 |
| 20 | New Mexico | 390.12 |
| 21 | Washington | 390.21 |
| 22 | Arkansas | 392.13 |
| 23 | Indiana | 393.66 |
| 24 | Delaware | 393.90 |
| 25 | Illinois | 394.08 |
| 26 | Connecticut | 394.68 |
| 27 | Massachusetts | 395.01 |
| 28 | Kansas | 395.12 |
| 29 | North Carolina | 395.58 |
| 30 | Tennessee | 396.32 |
| 31 | New Hampshire | 397.16 |
| 32 | South Carolina | 397.18 |
| 33 | Kentucky | 397.28 |
| 34 | South Dakota | 398.75 |
| 35 | Rhode Island | 398.86 |
| 36 | Minnesota | 399.56 |
| 37 | Colorado | 400.22 |
| 38 | Nebraska | 400.26 |
| 39 | Oregon | 401.42 |
| 40 | Michigan | 401.95 |
| 41 | Missouri | 402.84 |
| 42 | Pennsylvania | 403.13 |
| 43 | West Virginia | 404.30 |
| 44 | Iowa | 407.96 |
| 45 | Montana | 409.64 |
| 46 | Ohio | 409.98 |
| 47 | Wyoming | 410.82 |
| 48 | Wisconsin | 415.14 |
| 49 | North Dakota | 417.11 |
| 50 | Vermont | 417.62 |
| 51 | Maine | 427.68 |
| 52 | District of Columbia | 478.46 |
More on occupied housing units
- US Counties With the Highest Occupied Housing Units
- 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.