Median Home Size Continues To Shrink

Washington, DC, Aug. 26, 2010--The median home size is shrinking, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

After years of growth, the government reported that median new home size fell to 2,135 square feet in 2009 after peaking at more than 2,300 earlier in the decade.

Now, the typical U.S. owner-occupied home has six rooms, with three of them being bedrooms, according to the Census Bureau's annual American Housing Survey. The most common number of baths is two or more.

Of the more than 76 million owner-occupied homes in 2009, 63 million were traditional detached, single-family residences.