Homes Get Bigger While Yards and Families Get Smaller
RISMedia reported a Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal story about how Americans are “super-sizing their homes”. They make the correlation that while the average home size in 2005 went up to a record 2,412 square feet, the average family size went down. The reason? Because we can afford it.
Since the 1970s, the average single-family house built in America has grown by about 50 percent, according to a report released at the National Association of Home Builders’ meeting this week in Orlando. During the same time, average family size has fallen from more than three people to about 2.5 residents per home.
As a side note it also mentions that as the homes get bigger the yards also get smaller and are expected to get even smaller. The average lot size now is about 9,000 square feet.
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