| The author of this page has made critical errors in either interpreting or creating many of the graphs on the page. > Another housing trend that popped up in 2014 was the rise in homes with four or more bedrooms. If you actually look at the graph, the rise in 4+ bedrooms had been going since 1985. In 2014 it just became the most popular. > Demand for fireplaces has been cooling since the ’90s with 2007 being the first year that more homes were built without the feature than with. Actually, that would be 2010. The "None" point is plotted higher than the "1" point in 2007 but still definitely below the 50% mark. > The average square feet of floor area in a newly completed single-family home was down 2 percent or 56 square feet in 2017 from the high mark. The graph above has percentages in the y-axis rather than square feet...no idea what happened there. Plus, it is somewhat misleading! In the real data chart [0, page 9], the median square footage actually increased in 2017, while the average did decrease. Additionally, this difference appears to be within the relative standard error window. [0]: https://www.census.gov/construction/chars/pdf/squarefeet.pdf |