Table 14. Homeownership Rates for the 61 Largest Metropolitan Areas:  1986 to 1995 
                                                                         
                                              1986  1987  1988  1989  1990  1991
          Metropolitan area 
                             
    Inside Metropolitan Areas...............  61.2  61.4  61.3  61.3  61.3  61.4
                            
**Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY...............  62.4  63.9  59.0  64.7  69.9  70.3
**Atlanta, GA...............................  57.5  58.5  61.0  61.5  61.0  62.3
  Baltimore, MD.............................  58.8  58.2  60.4  62.9  63.0  62.8
* Bergen-Passaic, NJ........................  58.6  59.5  61.2  60.9  61.4  61.5
**Birmingham, AL............................  68.6  65.6  63.6  64.1  65.7  68.3
**Boston, MA-NH\1...........................  55.9  56.3  56.6  55.6  55.0  56.4
  Buffalo, NY...............................  64.1  63.8  61.4  62.3  61.4  63.0
* Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC.......  63.0  62.3  63.0  64.8  64.8  67.3
**Chicago, IL...............................  54.7  55.3  55.7  56.1  56.9  56.5
**Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN......................  63.8  64.5  62.7  60.9  57.9  59.5
**Cleveland-Lorain-Elyria, OH\2.............  64.7  65.3  65.4  64.5  64.5  64.4
**Columbus, OH..............................  59.2  63.4  61.9  60.3  61.8  64.4
**Dallas, TX................................  51.2  50.4  51.2  53.0  54.0  52.9
* Dayton-Springfield, OH....................  62.8  62.6  63.3  66.6  67.6  68.9
  Denver, CO................................  60.7  60.6  61.3  58.4  55.7  58.1
  Detroit, MI...............................  70.5  71.3  72.3  72.7  71.4  69.2
* Ft. Lauderdale, FL\3......................  74.3  69.7  66.1  68.2  68.2  67.1
**Ft. Worth-Arlington, TX...................  64.8  62.0  63.7  66.8  61.4  66.2
**Greensboro-Winston Salem-High Point, NC...  68.2  69.1  66.9  67.2  68.2  67.6
* Hartford, CT..............................  68.3  64.9  62.2  63.9  65.5  59.4
  Honolulu, HI..............................  50.0  50.3  52.2  52.2  52.9  53.3
**Houston, TX...............................  56.3  60.0  57.2  54.9  53.9  53.6
**Indianapolis, IN..........................  61.4  63.8  59.2  56.7  55.3  56.1
  Jacksonville, FL..........................  61.0  60.5  57.4  58.5  61.0  59.2
**Kansas City, MO-KS........................  63.8  63.3  64.1  63.0  61.7  64.0
* Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA................  48.3  48.6  48.5  47.4  47.9  48.0
**Louisville, KY-IN.........................  66.4  70.6  72.8  69.6  69.3  68.6
**Memphis, TN-AR-MS.........................  60.2  61.7  61.2  61.6  60.8  58.9
* Miami, FL\4...............................  47.9  51.6  48.9  47.8  47.9  50.1
* Middlesex-Somerset-Hunterton, NJ..........  67.5  69.6  71.2  73.0  72.4  70.9
  Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI\5..................  65.9  68.7  68.9  71.9  72.2  70.7
**Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI...............  64.2  65.8  64.5  62.4  62.5  63.0
* Monmouth-Ocean, NJ........................  76.6  76.7  75.0  76.9  76.1  74.2
  Nashville, TN.............................  60.6  58.5  55.6  53.9  57.3  54.1
* Nassau-Suffolk, NY........................  81.8  83.6  79.0  77.4  81.8  80.9
**New Orleans, LA...........................  59.9  58.5  56.7  56.7  59.9  58.0
  New York, NY..............................  32.1  32.9  32.7  34.3  34.0  33.0
**Newark, NJ................................  62.0  62.8  61.6  62.9  60.7  62.7
**Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News, VA...  57.2  58.6  62.5  63.4  62.6  63.0
* Oakland, CA...............................  57.0  59.1  59.4  56.2  54.2  53.9
  Oklahoma City, OK.........................  67.8  69.8  68.8  67.5  65.1  61.9
* Orange County, CA\6.......................  57.3  59.4  55.7  52.9  55.1  57.4
**Orlando, FL...............................  71.2  69.4  67.0  67.2  66.8  65.4
**Philadelphia, PA-NJ.......................  69.8  68.9  70.5  71.8  73.6  73.5
**Phoenix-Mesa, AZ\7........................  61.8  62.5  66.1  65.4  64.3  65.4
**Pittsburgh, PA............................  70.5  71.3  72.2  71.7  71.9  71.7
**Portland-Vancouver, OR-WA\8...............  65.2  65.4  64.9  64.0  66.5  67.1
* Providence-Fall River-Pawtucket, RI-MA....  63.0  61.2  62.2  62.4  59.5  59.2
  Richmond-Petersburg, VA...................  71.5  70.7  73.6  71.9  69.4  66.6
**Rochester, NY.............................  61.7  64.3  66.3  65.6  65.9  64.0
  Sacramento, CA............................  54.3  53.1  49.4  51.7  53.5  56.0
* Salt Lake City-Ogden, UT..................  71.2  71.7  70.8  72.8  73.6  73.8
**San Antonio, TX...........................  60.1  58.1  57.2  58.0  57.9  56.7
* San Bernardino-Riverside, CA..............  65.9  64.9  66.6  65.3  60.0  60.1
* San Diego, CA.............................  53.6  55.0  51.7  48.7  51.2  54.8
  San Francisco, CA.........................  48.7  48.2  52.8  52.3  48.8  53.8
* San Jose, CA..............................  50.9  55.4  61.2  63.4  63.2  62.4
**Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA\9............  63.0  63.8  64.0  64.7  64.8  65.0
**St. Louis, MO-IL..........................  64.8  62.1  59.3  58.5  59.4  60.7
  Tampa-St Petersburg-Clearwater, FL........  67.6  67.2  66.8  65.6  67.0  69.9
**Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV\10................  60.2  61.9  62.4  63.0  63.2  62.4
                                                                               
                                                1992   1993  1993/r  1994   1995 
            Metropolitan area
                                        
      Inside Metropolitan Areas...............  61.6   62.0   61.5   61.7   62.7
                                                                               
  **Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY...............  70.7   69.2   68.9   66.8   64.7
  **Atlanta, GA...............................  62.8   62.1   61.9   59.4   64.1
    Baltimore, MD.............................  62.5   61.9   61.8   61.9   64.4
  * Bergen-Passaic, NJ........................  61.8   60.0   59.3   59.1   61.4
  **Birmingham, AL............................  70.2   70.4   70.0   70.6   67.4
  **Boston, MA-NH\1...........................  58.1   57.9   57.4   57.5   59.2
    Buffalo, NY...............................  65.9   65.2   64.7   62.9   64.1
  * Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC.......  65.1   64.3   63.7   68.0   72.6
  **Chicago, IL...............................  56.6   56.0   55.3   57.4   64.6
  **Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN......................  61.0   64.3   64.1   66.4   64.5
  **Cleveland-Lorain-Elyria, OH\2.............  62.9   62.5   62.1   63.7   70.2
  **Columbus, OH..............................  68.1   66.5   66.1   62.0   58.9
  **Dallas, TX................................  51.5   52.9   52.2   53.6   58.7
  * Dayton-Springfield, OH....................  68.3   66.3   65.8   63.7   61.1
    Denver, CO................................  59.4   61.1   60.7   61.7   65.9
    Detroit, MI...............................  69.3   72.0   71.7   70.3   69.6
  * Ft. Lauderdale, FL\3......................  68.3   69.7   69.4   69.0   68.8
  **Ft. Worth-Arlington, TX...................  65.5   60.5   60.0   58.4   59.9
  **Greensboro-Winston Salem-High Point, NC...  68.8   72.1   71.9   71.2   71.3
  * Hartford, CT..............................  60.3   59.2   58.7   61.2   66.1
    Honolulu, HI..............................  52.6   52.4   51.9   51.5   49.1
  **Houston, TX...............................  53.2   55.4   54.8   54.4   56.2
  **Indianapolis, IN..........................  59.6   59.5   59.0   57.3   63.7
    Jacksonville, FL..........................  63.2   62.1   61.7   63.9   66.6
  **Kansas City, MO-KS........................  66.3   63.9   63.6   63.0   69.2
  * Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA................  48.5   49.5   48.7   48.9   48.1
  **Louisville, KY-IN.........................  66.1   67.4   67.1   69.5   69.9
  **Memphis, TN-AR-MS.........................  58.7   55.9   55.3   52.8   61.6
  * Miami, FL\4...............................  50.5   52.3   51.6   51.4   50.9
  * Middlesex-Somerset-Hunterton, NJ..........  71.7   73.8   73.3   71.2   72.9
    Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI\5..................  66.5   61.7   61.2   59.5   62.4
  **Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI...............  61.5   60.1   59.7   62.5   66.6
  * Monmouth-Ocean, NJ........................  74.4   75.3   75.0   74.3   76.5
    Nashville, TN.............................  56.8   54.2   53.8   56.3   62.5
  * Nassau-Suffolk, NY........................  80.0   80.2   80.0   78.7   79.6
  **New Orleans, LA...........................  53.1   52.1   51.6   56.5   58.3
    New York, NY..............................  34.0   34.0   33.4   33.5   32.8
  **Newark, NJ................................  62.6   61.1   60.5   60.7   64.0
  **Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News, VA...  64.1   64.9   64.5   64.7   62.5
  * Oakland, CA...............................  52.2   56.3   55.7   58.1   57.0
    Oklahoma City, OK.........................  61.0   66.2   65.6   68.2   69.6
  * Orange County, CA\6.......................  58.4   59.7   58.7   58.6   58.8
  **Orlando, FL...............................  61.0   60.6   60.2   59.6   61.7
  **Philadelphia, PA-NJ.......................  71.5   71.5   71.2   69.6   69.1
  **Phoenix-Mesa, AZ\7........................  68.7   70.3   69.7   69.5   66.2
  **Pittsburgh, PA............................  71.3   70.8   70.6   70.8   71.6
  **Portland-Vancouver, OR-WA\8...............  62.4   59.2   58.8   57.3   60.3
  * Providence-Fall River-Pawtucket, RI-MA....  58.3   59.6   59.2   57.8   56.9
    Richmond-Petersburg, VA...................  64.5   67.3   66.6   65.9   65.4
  **Rochester, NY.............................  66.1   70.7   70.4   68.4   68.0
    Sacramento, CA............................  60.4   64.1   63.7   59.0   58.3
  * Salt Lake City-Ogden, UT..................  71.1   69.9   69.4   71.4   74.4
  **San Antonio, TX...........................  54.1   54.5   54.1   56.4   54.9
  * San Bernardino-Riverside, CA..............  63.8   65.3   64.7   62.6   61.8
  * San Diego, CA.............................  55.5   56.1   55.4   56.6   57.8
    San Francisco, CA.........................  53.5   50.3   49.9   47.9   53.8
  * San Jose, CA..............................  63.7   64.2   63.7   60.7   58.7
  **Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA\9............  64.1   65.0   64.5   63.4   61.0
  **St. Louis, MO-IL..........................  60.5   66.1   65.7   69.0   66.7
    Tampa-St Petersburg-Clearwater, FL........  68.5   67.2   66.9   66.0   68.1
  **Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV\10................  62.8   63.0   62.1   61.5   62.3
                                                                        
  *  Boundaries did not change as a result of the 1990 Decennial Census of
     Population and Housing; one or more central city/cities added or deleted.
  ** Boundaries changed as a result of the 1990 Decennial Census of Population
     and Housing; one or more county/counties added or deleted. 
  Note to data users: An error was found in the 1994 geographic conversions of
metropolitan/nonmetropolitan data to reflect 1980 definitions.  A similar error
was found in the January 1995 data.  The corrected rates are shown above as of
May 1996. Data from 1986 to 1994 are based on 1980 metropolitan/nonmetropolitan
definitions, while 1995 data are based on 1990 metropolitan/nonmetropolitan
definitions.  See Source and Accuracy section for explanation.  
  Note:  Data from 1986 to 1994 are based on 1980 metropolitan/nonmetropolitan
     definitions, while 1995 data are based on 1990 metropolitan/nonmetropolitan
     definitions.                                
     See Source and Accuracy section for explanation.         
                                                               
  \1  Formerly titled Boston, MA.                               
  \2  Includes former Lorain-Elyria, OH PMSA                     
  \3  Formerly titled Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood-Pompano Beach, FL.
  \4  Formerly titled Miami-Hialeh, FL.   
  \5  Formerly titled Milwaukee, WI.       
  \6  Formerly titled Anaheim-Santa Ana, CA.
  \7  Formerly titled Phoenix, AZ.      
  \8  Formerly titled Portland, OR.      
  \9  Formerly titled Seattle, WA.        
  \10 Formerly titled Washington, DC-MD-VA.
             
  rRevised.