Table 10.  Percent Distribution by Type of Unit for the United States and
                  for Inside and Outside Metropolitan Statistical Areas:  Third Quarter 2005 and 2006

(Percent distribution may not add to total, due to rounding)



                                                     Third Quarter 2005
Type of housing unit
                                              United   Inside Metropolitan   Outside Metropolitan
                                              States   Statistical Areas     Statistical Areas

All housing units.........................       100              100              100

    Year-round vacant.....................       9.6              9.2             11.3
      For rent............................       3.0              3.2              2.4
      For sale only.......................       1.2              1.2              1.1
      Rented or sold, awaiting occupancy..       1.0              1.0              0.8
      Held off market.....................       4.4              3.8              7.0
        For occasional use................       1.4              1.2              2.7
        Temporarily occupied by persons
        with usual residence elsewhere....       0.8              0.8              1.0
        For other reasons.................       2.1              1.8              3.3

    Seasonal vacant.......................       3.1              1.9              8.3

    Occupied..............................      87.4             88.9             80.3



                                                     Third Quarter 2006
Type of housing unit
                                              United   Inside Metropolitan   Outside Metropolitan
                                              States   Statistical Areas     Statistical Areas

All housing units.........................        100              100              100

    Year-round vacant.....................      10.0              9.7             11.3
      For rent............................       3.0              3.2              2.1
      For sale only.......................       1.5              1.6              1.4
      Rented or sold, awaiting occupancy..       0.9              1.0              0.8
      Held off market.....................       4.5              4.0              7.1
        For occasional use................       1.5              1.2              2.8
        Temporarily occupied by persons
        with usual residence elsewhere....       0.9              0.9              0.9
        For other reasons.................       2.2              1.9              3.4

    Seasonal vacant.......................       3.2              2.0              8.5

    Occupied..............................      86.9             88.3             80.2

  NA Not available.  Metropolitan Statistical Area data for 2005 and later are not comparable to earlier data.  
Beginning in first quarter 2005, the Current Population Survey/Housing Vacancy Survey is using the new metropolitan 
and micropolitan statisitcal definitions which were announced by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in June 2003, 
and were based on the application of the 2000 standards to Census 2000 data.  OMB announced updates as of December 2003, 
based on application of the 2000 standards to more recent Census Bureau estimates.  In this report, outside
Metropolitan Statistical Areas includes micropolitan and non-metropolitan statistical areas.  The December 2003 definitions 
are available at
http://www.census.gov/population/www/estimates/metrodef.html and http://www.census.gov/population/www/estimates/aboutmetro.html.