CLIPBOARD : New Home Sizes

The smaller new home is more popular in Orange County than in any of the other five Southern California urbanized counties. While 28% of the new homes sold in 1990 in Orange County had two bedrooms or fewer, no other regional county had a comparable percentage of 20 or more. Ventura County was the closest with 18%. Orange County also had the smallest average number of bedrooms in all new homes sold last year. Here are the comparisons:

Two or Five or City Fewer Three Four More Average Los Angeles 14 37 38 11 3.5 Orange 28 30 34 8 3.2 Riverside 12 41 42 5 3.4 San Bernardino 5 45 44 6 3.5 San Diego 16 34 44 6 3.4 Ventura 18 37 37 8 3.4 STATEWIDE 10 47 37 6 3.4

Source: Construction Industry Research Board