Inside Indiana Business
August 3, 2001
Carol O. Rogers
Indiana Business Research Center
IU Kelley School of Business

Single-Family Homes Rule
The majority of Hoosiers live in single-family homes, based on results of a special Census 2000 survey.
Of 2.5 million housing units in Indiana, 74% were sing-units, 19 percent were in multi-unit buildings, and 7% were mobile homes.
A little over 9.2% of housing units were estimated as vacant.  Only 17% of housing units in Indiana we

In 2000, Indiana had a total of 2,532,319 housing units, 9.2 percent of which were vacant. Of the total housing units, 74 percent were in single-unit structures, 19 percent were in multi-unit structures, and 7 percent were mobile homes. Seventeen percent of the housing units were built since 1990.

OCCUPIED HOUSING UNIT CHARACTERISTICS: The occupied units consisted of 72 percent that were owner occupied and 28 percent that were renter occupied. There were 11,052 (0.5 percent) and 11,991 (0.5 percent) occupied units lacking plumbing and kitchen facilities, respectively. Four percent of the households did not have telephone service and 7 percent of the households did not have access to a car, truck, or van for private use. Multi-vehicle households were not rare. Forty percent had two vehicles and another 21 percent had three or more.

HOUSING COSTS: The median monthly housing costs for (specified) mortgaged owners was $858, nonmortgaged owners $247, and (specified) renters $521. Nineteen percent of owners with mortgages, 8 percent of owners without mortgages, and 37 percent of renters in Indiana spent 30 percent or more of household income on housing.