US Counties With the Lowest Owner-occupied Housing Units
3,219 US counties ranked by owner-occupied housing units, from lowest to highest. First are Kalawao County, HI (0.00), Aleutians West Census Area, AK (55.62) and Chattahoochee County, GA (74.28). 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 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 | California | 190.99 |
| 2 | District of Columbia | 196.84 |
| 3 | New York | 209.58 |
| 4 | Hawaii | 211.58 |
| 5 | Nevada | 223.47 |
| 6 | Texas | 226.84 |
| 7 | Utah | 232.15 |
| 8 | New Jersey | 239.07 |
| 9 | Georgia | 242.04 |
| 10 | Alaska | 243.02 |
| 11 | Massachusetts | 247.27 |
| 12 | Washington | 249.28 |
| 13 | Rhode Island | 252.28 |
| 14 | Oklahoma | 254.10 |
| 15 | Oregon | 254.39 |
| 16 | Maryland | 255.84 |
| 17 | Arizona | 257.73 |
| 18 | Virginia | 258.10 |
| 19 | Arkansas | 259.35 |
| 20 | Puerto Rico | 259.37 |
| 21 | Louisiana | 259.77 |
| 22 | Connecticut | 261.21 |
| 23 | Florida | 262.52 |
| 24 | North Carolina | 262.53 |
| 25 | Illinois | 263.38 |
| 26 | Kansas | 264.27 |
| 27 | North Dakota | 264.47 |
| 28 | Idaho | 265.22 |
| 29 | Colorado | 265.40 |
| 30 | Tennessee | 265.64 |
| 31 | Nebraska | 266.34 |
| 32 | Mississippi | 266.41 |
| 33 | New Mexico | 270.51 |
| 34 | Kentucky | 271.26 |
| 35 | Alabama | 272.46 |
| 36 | Missouri | 273.68 |
| 37 | South Dakota | 273.69 |
| 38 | Ohio | 274.67 |
| 39 | Indiana | 276.95 |
| 40 | Pennsylvania | 279.49 |
| 41 | Wisconsin | 281.82 |
| 42 | South Carolina | 283.71 |
| 43 | Montana | 284.39 |
| 44 | Delaware | 284.67 |
| 45 | New Hampshire | 287.97 |
| 46 | Minnesota | 289.22 |
| 47 | Iowa | 291.81 |
| 48 | Michigan | 293.11 |
| 49 | Wyoming | 295.47 |
| 50 | West Virginia | 300.42 |
| 51 | Vermont | 304.00 |
| 52 | Maine | 316.56 |
More on owner-occupied housing units
- US Counties With the Highest 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.