Southwest Florida Economic Almanac

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Number of Rooms

Number of Rooms

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The American Community Survey, conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, collects data on the number of rooms per housing unit (occupied and vacant) in each of the five counties. The American Community Survey defines a room as follows:

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Most housing units in Southwest Florida Number of Rooms had five rooms in 2015, with 187,662 Southwest Florida units. The number of units with five rooms had year-to-year increases over 1 to 3 rooms the past five years, with a 6 percent 12% 4 rooms increase since 2011. The region also had 5 rooms 89,921 housing units with one to three 6 rooms rooms (5 percent increase from 2011), 169,056 housing units with four rooms 7 or more rooms (4.7 percent increase from 2011), 129,728 housing units with six rooms (8 percent decrease from 2011), and 122,016 housing units with seven or more rooms (0.2 percent decrease from 2011).

18%

20%

26%

24%

Number of Rooms Rooms

2011

Southwest Florida 2012

2013

2014

2015

1 room

5,358

6,003

5,460

5,695

6,130

2 rooms

16,427

14,252

14,003

13,574

13,576

3 rooms

63,831

65,738

65,877

68,029

70,215

4 rooms

161,418

163,276

167,150

168,862

169,056

5 rooms

177,110

177,783

178,724

184,342

187,662

6 rooms

141,018

138,754

136,219

132,344

129,728

7 rooms

66,372

66,457

65,836

63,573

61,839

8 rooms

31,248

32,359

32,052

32,314

32,497

9 or more rooms

24,680

25,902

26,166

26,162

27,680

Total 687,462 690,524 691,487 Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates

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698,383

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