Nationwide the single-family vacancy rate ended the year at 2.7% while rentals were at 9.4%.
Next comes Riverside-San Bernardino, Calif., where the single-family vacancy rate surged to 6.4%, the highest in the country, in the fourth quarter.
Sin City's single-family vacancy rate of 5.5% at the end of last year more than 7,000 empty homes in the city proper, according to Census estimates was among the highest in the country.
In fact, it turns out that it isn't only economically struggling areas that have stubbornly high single-family vacancy rates.
Even though single-family construction remains depressed compared with historical norms, the single-family vacancy rate is still high.
For the single-family vacancy rate to move back down to bubble or pre-bubble levels, the growth in households occupying single-family homes needs to exceed the growth in the single-family housing stock.
Multi-Unit Vacancies Down, But Single-Family Vacancies Up The vacancy rates help us see whether construction is falling behind, keeping up with, or running too far ahead of household formation.
The comptroller, however, said that every slot was desperately needed by a low-income family and that vacancies cost the city money at a time when budgets are very tight.
To construct our list, we ranked cities over all four quarters of last year by single-family and rental vacancy rates, then averaged the ranks to determine the top 10.
Day resigned earlier on Tuesday but his eligibility will determine whether the Family First senator's vacancy is filled automatically by a member of his party or requires votes to be recounted.
Secondly, due to the scarcity of physicians in a given field, particularly in primary care, the Government has allocated substantial amounts of vacancies to fields like family medicine (accounted for 30% of vacancies in the 2009), thus reducing the amount available for other fields.
