What America Is Made Of: U.S. Property Types by the Numbers
How is the American housing stock split across property types? Here's the national mix.
U.S. property-type mix
| Property type | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| single_family | 105,285,382 | 72.1% |
| condo | 10,503,517 | 7.2% |
| apartment | 8,053,222 | 5.5% |
| townhouse | 7,918,656 | 5.4% |
| manufactured | 6,550,812 | 4.5% |
| multi_family | 4,600,982 | 3.2% |
| land | 2,139,924 | 1.5% |
| other | 940,831 | 0.6% |
Method
Count of records by normalized property_type across the full dataset.
Source: the RealEstateDataset public U.S. property dataset (2026-08-02), free to download and verify. Figures use recorded public sale prices; areas with too few records are excluded.
Frequently asked
What is the most common property type in the U.S.?
Single-family homes dominate — about 72% of records in this dataset.
How are property types classified?
Each property is normalized into a standard type (single-family, condo, townhouse, multi-family, manufactured, land, etc.). See the data dictionary.
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