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Share of housing units built 1939 or earlier: U.S. states ranked

Measure: Share of housing units built 1939 or earlier (%). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Housing units by year built by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 1939.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-04

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National value: 11.3 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 31.9 %
RI 27.7 %
DE 7.5 %
CT 19.2 %
NJ 17.8 %
MD 10.2 %
MA 30 %
VT 23.1 %
NH 18.2 %

Lowest: 1.2 to 4.3 %
Group 2: 4.3 to 7.5 %
Group 3: 7.5 to 13.4 %
Group 4: 13.4 to 18.9 %
Highest: 18.9 to 31.9 %

The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. Values are as published in the source table.


1	District of Columbia	31.9
2	New York	30.1
3	Massachusetts	30
4	Rhode Island	27.7
5	Pennsylvania	23.5
6	Vermont	23.1
7	Iowa	22.5
8	Maine	22.4
9	Illinois	20.3
10	Connecticut	19.2
11	Ohio	18.9
12	Nebraska	18.8
13	New Hampshire	18.2
14	New Jersey	17.8
15	Wisconsin	17.6
16	Minnesota	15
17	Indiana	14.8
18	Kansas	14.4
18	South Dakota	14.4
20	Michigan	14
21	West Virginia	13.4
22	Missouri	13.1
23	Montana	12.7
24	Wyoming	10.4
25	Oregon	10.3
26	Maryland	10.2
27	North Dakota	10
28	Washington	9
29	California	8.6
29	Kentucky	8.6
31	Delaware	7.5
32	Virginia	7
33	Idaho	6.9
34	Oklahoma	6.6
35	Colorado	6.5
36	Utah	5.8
37	Louisiana	5.4
38	Tennessee	5.2
39	North Carolina	4.8
40	Alabama	4.4
41	New Mexico	4.3
42	Georgia	3.9
42	Mississippi	3.9
44	Arkansas	3.7
45	South Carolina	3.3
46	Hawaii	3.2
47	Texas	2.9
48	Florida	1.8
49	Alaska	1.6
50	Arizona	1.3
51	Nevada	1.2

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table DP04: Selected Housing Characteristics. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by share of housing units built 1939 or earlier (%) (1939). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table DP04; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-04. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-built-1939-or-earlier/

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