Over half of recent single-family houses inbuilt 2025 have been two or extra tales, in line with the current launch of the Census Bureau’s Survey of Building (SOC). After rising in 2024, the share of houses began with two or extra tales fell in 2025. Nevertheless, the hole between one-story and two-or-more-story shares has been comparatively secure since 2021, with solely small year-to-year fluctuations.
Nationwide, the share of recent houses with two or extra tales fell from 52.5% in 2024 to 51.4% in 2025, whereas the share of recent houses with one story rose from 47.5% to 48.6%. Regardless of the decline, greater than half of recent houses constructed nationally in 2025 have been two or extra tales, although this share assorted considerably throughout the nation.
As proven beneath, new houses began within the Midwest and the South usually favored single-story houses, whereas the Northeast and the West had greater shares of two or extra tales. Within the Midwest, single-story houses accounted for 55.7% of recent houses began within the East North Central division and 54.3% within the West North Central division. Within the South, single-story shares reached 61.7% in East South Central and 56.6% in West South Central. The South Atlantic division was the exception, with two or extra story houses nonetheless the bulk (54.2%).
Exterior the Midwest and the South, single-story shares have been lowest in New England (25.7%) and the Center Atlantic (26.5%), whereas the Pacific (47.5%) and Mountain (41.9%) divisions have been greater.
In contrast with 2024, single-story shares rose within the East North Central and East South Central divisions to multi-year highs, whereas shares within the West North Central and West South Central divisions fell to multi-year lows.
Within the Northeast, the place two-or-more-story houses are extra widespread, New England rebounded and the Center Atlantic declined additional. Two divisions within the West have moved in reverse instructions over the previous few years. The only-story share within the Pacific has elevated in seven of the final eight years, from 32.7% in 2017 to 47.5% in 2025. Nevertheless, the Mountain division noticed the reverse, falling from a peak of fifty.7% in 2020 to 41.9% in 2025.
Trying particularly at new houses with three or extra tales, the nationwide share edged as much as 5.2%, in comparison with 5.0% in 2017. The small improve over the previous eight years has been concentrated in New England (from 7.2% to 14.1%) and the Center Atlantic (from 14.0% to fifteen.1%), whereas the share has doubled in Mountain division (from 3.0% to six.6%). New houses with three or extra tales have been much less widespread within the Midwest and South, accounting for lower than 3% of recent houses began in most divisions, besides the South Atlantic at 5.0%.
