Home size
According to the U.S. Census Bureau statistics, the average size of homes more than doubled from 1950 to 1999. From 1982 to 2004, the average floor area of new single-family houses grew 40%, from 1690 square feet to 2366 square feet. These days, more than a third of new houses built in the United States are 2,400 square feet or bigger. Meanwhile, the average family decreased!
What do people need the big homes for? I venture to guess it’s for all the toys – multi-media home theaters, billiard rooms, and lots of closets to store all kinds of gadgets. 