Housing Summaries (2005-2009)

Description

The American Community Survey (ACS) is a nationwide survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau that is designed to provide communities a fresh look at how they are changing. It is a critical element in the Census Bureau's reengineered decennial census program, incorporating the detailed socioeconomic and housing questions that were previously asked on the decennial census long form into the ACS questionnaire. The ACS now collects and produces this detailed population and housing information every year instead of every ten years. Data are collected on an on-going basis throughout the year and are released each year for large geographic areas, those with 65,000 persons or more. However, sample sizes are not large enough for annual releases that cover smaller areas, those with less than 65,000 persons. Data that are suitable for areas with 20,000 to 65,000 persons are accumulated over three years and termed a three-year period estimate, the first of which was for the 2005-2007 period. Data that are suitable for areas with less than 20,000 persons are accumulated over five years and termed a five-year period estimate, the first of which was for the 2005-2009 period. The data in this series of RGIS Clearinghouse tables are for all New Mexico counties and are based on the 2005-2009 ACS Five-Year Period Estimates collected between January 2005 and December 2009. These data tables are a summary of all major housing topics published through the ACS, providing information about the condition of housing, and illuminating various financial characteristics of the housing stock. Major topics include housing occupancy, year structure built, rooms and bedrooms, housing tenure (owners and renters), year householder moved into unit, vehicles available, type of house heating fuel, units without complete plumbing and kitchen facilities or without telephone service, occupants per room, home value, mortgage status, monthly owner costs, owner costs as a percentage of household income, gross rent, and gross rent as a percentage of household income. Percentages are shown along with numeric estimates for most data items. Because the data are based on a sample the Census Bureau also provides information about the magnitude of sampling error. Consequently, the estimated margin of error (MOE) is shown next to each data item. Each housing topic is covered in a separate file in both Excel and CSV formats. These files, along with file-specific descriptions (in Word and text formats) are available in a single zip file.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
57 acs0509coshousingsum.zip http://bber.unm.edu/fusion/acs0509counties/acs0509coshousingsum.zip
57 acs0509coshousingsum.original.zip http://gstore.unm.edu/apps/rgisarchive/datasets/ad151172-88fe-4246-b675-79cb04ec2ae0/acs0509coshousingsum.original.zip
55 FGDC-STD-001-1998.xml http://gstore.unm.edu/apps/rgisarchive/datasets/ad151172-88fe-4246-b675-79cb04ec2ae0/metadata/FGDC-STD-001-1998.xml
21 FGDC-STD-001-1998.html http://gstore.unm.edu/apps/rgisarchive/datasets/ad151172-88fe-4246-b675-79cb04ec2ae0/metadata/FGDC-STD-001-1998.html
21 ISO-19115:2003.html http://gstore.unm.edu/apps/rgisarchive/datasets/ad151172-88fe-4246-b675-79cb04ec2ae0/metadata/ISO-19115:2003.html
57 acs0509coshousingsum.zip http://bber.unm.edu/fusion/acs0509counties/acs0509coshousingsum.zip
57 acs0509coshousingsum.zip http://bber.unm.edu/fusion/acs0509counties/acs0509coshousingsum.zip
55 ISO-19115:2003.xml http://gstore.unm.edu/apps/rgisarchive/datasets/ad151172-88fe-4246-b675-79cb04ec2ae0/metadata/ISO-19115:2003.xml

Tags

  • home value
  • rent
  • new mexico
  • housing
  • american community survey
  • county
  • mortgage status
  • heating fuel

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