Manufactured Housing Survey (MHS)

Purpose

The Manufactured Housing Survey (MHS) is sponsored by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. The MHS produces monthly regional estimates of the average sales price for new manufactured homes and more detailed annual estimates including selected characteristics of new manufactured homes. In addition, MHS produces monthly estimates of homes shipped by status. The statistics on shipments of new manufactured homes are produced by the Institute for Building Technology and Safety (IBTS). They are rounded in the month of release and unrounded in subsequent months. Both not seasonally adjusted and seasonally adjusted annual rates of shipment estimates of new manufactured homes are released monthly. With the release of April shipments, the monthly seasonally adjusted estimates of shipments of new manufactured homes are revised for the current year and the previous five years. MHS coverage includes all new manufactured homes that have received a Federal inspection (i.e., HUD-code homes).

All data and documentation on the Manufactured Housing Survey (MHS) is available on the Census website.