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Housing
There
are approximately 24,000 housing units (as of July 1, 2007) in York
County, over 1,400 of which are military units located in Bethel Manor,
the Naval Weapons Station, Camp Peary, Cheatham Annex, and the U.S.
Coast Guard Training Center. Single-family detached homes dominate the
landscape, representing 70% of the housing stock. However, there are
more than 6,500 townhouses, duplexes, apartments, and condominiums in
the County, almost 20% of which are on-base military units. Over a third
of the new housing built since 1990 has been of the single-family
attached and multi-family variety. There are also about 400 mobile homes
in the County. Because of the high rate of housing construction in
recent years, adding over 8,700 units since 1990, York County’s housing
stock is relatively young and of good quality. About 16% of the housing
units in the County were built within the past seven years (since the
2000 Census was taken), and over half (57%) were built since 1990.
York
County has one of the highest rates of home ownership on the Peninsula,
but there is still a significant amount of rental housing. According to
the 2000 Census, rental housing constitutes almost a quarter of the
County’s occupied housing stock. Over a quarter of this rental housing
is on-base military housing. Although commonly associated with
apartments, rental housing is not limited to multi-family housing. In
fact, apartment complexes account for only about half of the County’s
private (i.e., non-military) rental housing.
Click
on the links below for York County housing data:
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