U.S. houses still getting bigger

ChicagoGeek:CC BY 2.0The median size of a new home is 2,467 square feet, 61% bigger than 40 years ago

By Jeffrey Sparshott | The Wall Street Journal

Americans want bigger houses. Or at least that’s what they’re getting.

The median size of a new single-family house was 2,467 square feet last year, the biggest on record, according to Census Bureau data out this week.

With all that floor space, homes are 61% larger than the median from 40 years earlier and 11% larger than a decade earlier.

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