| Report Area | Total Occupied Housing Units | Overcrowded Housing Units | Percentage of Housing Units Overcrowded |
|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin County, PA | 55,520 | 875 | 1.58% |
| Pennsylvania | 4,208,287 | 66,050 | 1.57% |
| United States | 90,647,126 | 3,889,851 | 4.29% |
Households by Occupancy (Persons per Room), Total
| Report Area | Less Than 0.51 | 0.51 - 1.00 | 1.01 - 1.50 | 1.51 - 2.00 | Over 2.00 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin County, PA | 46,068 | 11,348 | 692 | 159 | 31 |
| Pennsylvania | 3,866,884 | 1,027,552 | 44,012 | 14,796 | 4,492 |
| United States | 82,226,320 | 30,132,068 | 2,700,932 | 843,390 | 308,388 |
Households by Occupancy (Persons per Room), Percentage of Total Occupied Households
| Report Area | Less Than 0.51 | 0.51 - 1.00 | 1.01 - 1.50 | 1.51 - 2.00 | Over 2.00 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin County, PA | 79.02% | 19.47% | 1.19% | 0.27% | 0.05% |
| Pennsylvania | 78% | 20.73% | 0.89% | 0.3% | 0.09% |
| United States | 70.76% | 25.93% | 2.32% | 0.73% | 0.27% |
Housing Environment - Overcrowded Housing
Data Background
The American Community Survey (ACS) is a nationwide, continuous survey designed to provide communities with reliable and timely demographic, housing, social, and economic data. The ACS samples nearly 3 million addresses each year, resulting in nearly 2 million final interviews. The ACS replaces the long-form decennial census; however, the number of household surveys reported annually for the ACS is significantly less than the number reported in the long-form decennial census. As a result, the ACS combines detailed population and housing data from multiple years to produce reliable estimates for small counties, neighborhoods, and other local areas. Negotiating between timeliness and accuracy, the ACS annually releases current, one-year estimates for geographic areas with large populations; three-year and five-year estimates are also released each year for additional areas based on minimum population thresholds.
Citation: U.S. Census Bureau: A Compass for Understanding and Using American Community Survey Data (2008).
For more information about this source, including data collection methodology and definitions, refer to the American Community Survey website.
Methodology
Data on occupants per room are acquired from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. Data represent estimates for the 5 year period 2011-2015. Mapped data are summarized to 2010 census tract boundaries. Occupants per room is obtained by dividing the number of people in each occupied housing unit by the number of rooms in the unit. The figures show the number of occupied housing units having the specified ratio of people per room. The Census Bureau has no official definition of crowded units, but this report considers units with more than one occupant per room to be crowded. Occupants per room is rounded to the nearest hundredth.
For more information on the data reported in the American Community Survey, please see the complete American Community Survey 2015 Subject Definitions.
Notes
Race and Ethnicity
Statistics by race and ethnicity are not provided for this indicator.
Courtesy: Community Commons, <www.communitycommons.org>, December 2017