Residential and Business Vacancy Report, First Quarter 2009

From: HUD USER News
 
The Metropolitan Area Quarterly Residential and Business
Vacancy Report for the quarter ending March 31, 2009 is
a recent addition to HUD USER's library of online data
sets. The report is derived from the U.S. Postal Service
(USPS) universe of addresses with mail delivery. The
USPS identifies a house, apartment, office, or building
that is unoccupied for at least 90 days as vacant.
 
Through a special agreement with USPS, the vacancy data
is aggregated to the census tract level and made
available to the public through HUD's Office of Policy
Development & Research (PD&R), thus providing a critical
measure of the well-being of America's communities. PD&R
provides these data to complement vacancy information
available from the American Community Survey, Housing
Vacancy Survey, the American Housing Survey, and other
sources.
 
The data include:
 
o Total number of residential and business addresses
 recorded in the USPS database;
 
o Total number of vacant addresses that delivery staff
 on urban routes have identified as being vacant (not
 collecting their mail) for 90 days or longer; and
 
o Residential and business vacancy rates.
 
In addition, PD&R also calculates the average number of
days that addresses are vacant, the number of addresses
vacant by time periods, and changes in status over the
previous quarter.
 
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