{"id":6366,"date":"2020-08-25T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T16:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.neighbor.com\/storage-blog\/?p=6366"},"modified":"2024-01-29T17:35:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T00:35:14","slug":"americans-outgrow-living-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neighbor.com\/storage-blog\/americans-outgrow-living-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: 1 in 4 Americans Outgrow Their Living Space Within 2 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Over the last 40 years, newly constructed homes have gotten steadily bigger and bigger.<\/p>\n

In 1973, the first year the Census Bureau released data about Americans’ home sizes<\/a>, the average home came in at 1,660 square feet. In 2015, 42 years later, that had increased by more than 1,000 square feet — the average size of a new home built that year was 2,687 square feet.<\/p>\n

The steady increase in the size of newly constructed homes made us wonder —  is it really consumer demand<\/a> that’s driving the construction of all these huge new houses? Do Americans feel like they need 2,600 square feet of living space, and if so, why?<\/p>\n

So we asked them. Here are some of the key things we learned:<\/p>\n