{"id":195,"date":"2017-08-16T19:05:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T19:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.renthop.com\/content-manager\/?post_type=studies&p=6732"},"modified":"2017-08-16T19:06:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T23:06:38","slug":"us-census-bureau-released-residential-vacancies-stats-for-q2-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.renthop.com\/research\/us-census-bureau-released-residential-vacancies-stats-for-q2-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Census Bureau Released Residential Vacancies Stats for Q2 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
Data Highlights<\/b><\/p>\n What Does the Data Tell Us?<\/b><\/p>\n The overall rental vacancy rate in the U.S. has been increasing in the past year. In Q2 2017, the rental vacancy rate was 7.3%, 0.6 percentage points higher than Q2 2016. As shown in the figure below, starting in Q3 2009 the rental vacancy rate had been decreasing, reaching its lowest in a decade in Q2 2016. Since then, the rate has been going up for four consecutive quarters.<\/span><\/p>\n\n
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