(Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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.
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