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Owner-occupied housing unit rate, 2014-2018 - (Percent)
County
Value
Adams
61.7
Alcorn
71.1
Amite
85.0
Attala
70.8
Benton
83.3
Bolivar
54.2
Calhoun
71.9
Carroll
80.8
Chickasaw
71.2
Choctaw
76.4
Claiborne
68.4
Clarke
81.4
Clay
71.2
Coahoma
52.0
Copiah
78.7
Covington
80.5
DeSoto
73.7
Forrest
54.7
Franklin
78.6
George
83.5
Greene
84.8
Grenada
66.6
Hancock
74.6
Harrison
56.0
Hinds
58.4
Holmes
60.6
Humphreys
60.5
Issaquena
45.9
Itawamba
77.8
Jackson
69.9
Jasper
84.7
Jefferson
66.8
Jefferson Davis
76.3
Jones
73.1
Kemper
75.9
Lafayette
61.2
Lamar
69.2
Lauderdale
65.4
Lawrence
77.2
Leake
72.3
Lee
66.3
Leflore
50.1
Lincoln
75.4
Lowndes
61.5
Madison
71.8
Marion
80.6
Marshall
76.0
Monroe
74.2
Montgomery
71.4
Neshoba
72.7
Newton
77.9
Noxubee
72.7
Oktibbeha
50.9
Panola
72.8
Pearl River
77.5
Perry
83.4
Pike
67.2
Pontotoc
71.7
Prentiss
72.7
Quitman
58.0
Rankin
76.2
Scott
73.6
Sharkey
66.3
Simpson
80.5
Smith
83.0
Stone
76.3
Sunflower
54.9
Tallahatchie
73.9
Tate
75.1
Tippah
72.9
Tishomingo
75.5
Tunica
40.5
Union
72.3
Walthall
89.2
Warren
64.4
Washington
54.0
Wayne
81.6
Webster
73.9
Wilkinson
81.0
Winston
72.3
Yalobusha
73.3
Yazoo
62.8
Value for Mississippi (Percent): 68.2%
Data item: Owner-occupied housing unit rate, 2014-2018
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) and Puerto Rico Community Survey (PRCS), 5-Year Estimates. The PRCS is part of the Census Bureau's ACS, customized for Puerto Rico. Both Surveys are updated every year.
Definition
Owner-Occupied - A housing unit is owner-occupied if the owner or co-owner lives in the unit, even if it is mortgaged or not fully paid for. The owner or co-owner must live in the unit and usually is Person 1 on the questionnaire. The unit is "Owned by you or someone in this household with a mortgage or loan" if it is being purchased with a mortgage or some other debt arrangement such as a deed of trust, trust deed, contract to purchase, land contract, or purchase agreement. The unit also is considered owned with a mortgage if it is built on leased land and there is a mortgage on the unit. Mobile homes occupied by owners with installment loan balances also are included in this category. For the complete definition, go to ACS subject definitions "Tenure."
The homeownership rate is computed by dividing the number of owner-occupied housing units by the number of occupied housing units or households.
Source and Accuracy
This Fact is based on data collected in the American Community Survey (ACS) and the Puerto Rico Community Survey (PRCS) conducted annually by the U.S. Census Bureau. A sample of over 3.5 million housing unit addresses is interviewed each year over a 12 month period. This Fact (estimate) is based on five years of ACS and PRCS sample data and describes the average value of person, household and housing unit characteristics over this period of collection.
Statistics from all surveys are subject to sampling and nonsampling error. Sampling error is the uncertainty between an estimate based on a sample and the corresponding value that would be obtained if the estimate were based on the entire population (as from a census). Measures of sampling error are provided in the form of margins of error for all estimates included with ACS and PRCS published products. The Census Bureau recommends that data users incorporate this information into their analyses, as sampling error in survey estimates could impact the conclusions drawn from the results. The data for each geographic area are presented together with margins of error at Using margins of error. A more detailed explanation of margins of error and a demonstration of how to use them is provided below.
For more information on sampling and estimation methodology, confidentiality, and sampling and nonsampling errors, please see the Multiyear Accuracy (US) and the Multiyear Accuracy (Puerto Rico) documents at "Documentation - Accuracy of the data."
Margin of Error
As mentioned above, ACS estimates are based on a sample and are subject to sampling error. The margin of error measures the degree of uncertainty caused by sampling error. The margin of error is used with an ACS estimate to construct a confidence interval about the estimate. The interval is formed by adding the margin of error to the estimate (the upper bound) and subtracting the margin of error from the estimate (the lower bound). It is expected with 90 percent confidence that the interval will contain the full population value of the estimate. The following example is for demonstrating purposes only. Suppose the ACS reported that the percentage of people in a state who were 25 years and older with a bachelor's degree was 21.3 percent and that the margin of error associated with this estimate was 0.7 percent. By adding and subtracting the margin of error from the estimate, we calculate the 90-percent confidence interval for this estimate:
Therefore, we can be 90 percent confident that the percent of the population 25 years and older having a bachelor's degree in a state falls somewhere between 20.6 percent and 22.0 percent.
