HOUSING
UNIT
A housing unit may be a house, an apartment, a mobile home, a
group of rooms, or a single room that is occupied (or, if vacant, is
intended for occupancy) as separate living quarters. Separate
living quarters are those in which the occupants live separately from
any other individuals in the building and that have direct access from
outside the building or through a common hall. For vacant units,
the criteria of separateness and direct access are applied to the
intended occupants whenever possible. If that information cannot
be obtained, the criteria are applied to the previous occupants.
HOUSING
OCCUPANCY STATUS
Occupied housing unit:
A housing unit is occupied if it is the usual place of residence of
the person or group of people living in it at the time of enumeration
or if the occupants are only temporarily absent; that is, away on
vacation or business. The occupants may be a single family, one
person living alone, two or more families living together, or any
other group of related or unrelated people who share living quarters.
Vacant housing unit:
A housing unit is vacant if no one is living in it at the time of
enumeration, unless its occupants are only temporarily absent.
Units temporarily occupied at the time of enumeration entirely by
people who have a usual residence elsewhere are classified as vacant.
TENURE
Tenure was asked for all
occupied housing units. All occupied housing units are
classified as either owner-occupied or renter-occupied.
YEAR
STRUCTURE BUILT
The data on year
structure built were obtained from answers to the long-form
questionnaire, which was asked on a sample basis at both occupied and
vacant housing units. Year structure built refers to when the
building was first constructed, not when it was remodeled, added to,
or converted. For housing units under construction that met the
housing unit definition — that is, all exterior windows, doors, and
final usable floors were in place — the category ‘‘1999 or 2000
’’was used for tabulations. For mobile homes, houseboats,
RVs, etc, the manufacturer’s model year was assumed to be the year
built. The data relate to the number of units built during the
specified periods that were still in existence at the time of
enumeration.
(Source: US Census Bureau 2000)
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WESTCHESTER
COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING
Last Revised - September, 2003
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Total
Housing Units, 1990 and 2000