Our tax dollars at work: the US Census Bureau "...released a 2010 Census brief, Housing Characteristics: 2010, that shows the homeownership rate is the second highest on record, behind only 2000, since homeownership data collection began in 1890. However, the rate decreased by 1.1 percentage points to 65.1 percent between 2000 and 2010. The decrease is the largest since the period from 1930 to 1940."
Alaska's homeownership rate is 63.1 percent. Although just two percentage points lower than the national average it ranks Alaska 43rd, ahead of just seven other states and the District of Columbia. Alaska has the fourth highest percentage of seasonal, recreational or occasional use homes at 9.1 percent, behind Maine (16.4), Vermont (15.6) and New Hampshire (10.4). 27,907 housing units out of 306,967 total in Alaska fall into this classification.
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