Houses Have Been Growing

Business Insider has done a study on the changes since the 70’s and here’s their findings.

Houses have been getting bigger and fancier for the last several decades, and we have the charts to prove it.

Every year, the Census Bureau releases data on the characteristics of newly constructed homes, and they recently released info on houses built in 2015.

We decided to take a look at how different aspects of newly completed single-family houses have changed over the last several decades.

The number of bedrooms in single-family houses has tended to increase. In 2015, about 47% of newly built houses had four or more bedrooms.

Business Insider/Andy Kiersz, data from US Census Bureau

The floor area of houses has also increased over the years. The median house built in 2015 had an area of about 2,467 square feet, about 62% larger than the median in 1973 of 1,525 square feet.

Business Insider/Andy Kiersz, data from US Census Bureau

For full list of changes, click here.