Bigger homes, smaller households

While homes have gotten larger in recent decades, the size of the average American household has declined. Here is a look at how an average new single-family home in 1973, when the U.S. Census Bureau began collecting this data, stacks up against an average new home in 2014.

June 12, 2015 at 10:44PM
(Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
(Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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Mark Boswell

Deputy News Graphics Director

Mark Boswell is Deputy News Graphics Director at the Minnesota Star Tribune and has over 30 years experience as a visual journalist, illustrator and writer.

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