Guides: Building Community Profiles for Architecture: Housing

What is the characteristics of the housing structures including the type, condition, and age
What are the trends in residency and vacancy of structures and what is the length of residency?
How many people rent versus own?
What are the average household size and household income (consider comparing with surrounding areas)
What low-income housing is available in the community?

Proquest Statistical Insight This link opens in a new window
Provides access to statistics produced by business, Federal and State agencies, as well as other intergovernmental organizations.
Statista: The Statistics Portal This link opens in a new window
Statista aggregates the most important statistics and studies from market researchers, organizations, special publications as well as government platforms. With over 1-million statistics from 600+ areas: market data, consumer data, revenue figures and trends.

Comprehensive Housing Market Analyses
factual information, findings, and conclusions contained in the reports could also be useful to builders, mortgagees, and others concerned with local housing conditions and trends. For each analysis, HUD economists develop a factual framework based on information available, as of a particular date, from both local and national sources.
HUD User Datasets
Datasets including information about rent and income limits, sales prices, homelessness, construction
HUD OpenData on ArcGIS
HUD's geospatial datasets, web-based mapping tools, and application programming interfaces (APIs).