Change in Number of Mobile Homes as Housing Units 1990 - 2000
What is Counted as a Mobile Home?
The Census form distributed to the public to gather census data includes a section of questions about housing. One of those questions pertains to the unit structure of the respondent's dwelling. The Census form provides the respondent with a list of different types of housing structure, as shown in Table 1 in the overview of this section, from which the respondent chooses which type best describes their dwelling. "Mobile home" is one of the types of structure in that list. There is no specific definition of "mobile home": it is up to the respondent to choose "mobile home" as the category that describes their dwelling if that is their judgment. It is presumed that mobile homes are dwellings specifically designed and constructed to be moved if desired. Mobile homes are generally detached and may be located in a cluster or may be in a location apart from other dwellings. It is assumed that the occupants would not describe many manufactured and/or modular homes as a mobile home.
Table 1
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Mobile Homes as a Part of the Missouri Housing Stock 1990-2000
The 2000 Census reports 199,826 mobile homes in use on April 1, 2000 when census data were gathered. That is a 23.3 percent increase from the 162,007 mobile homes in use at the time of the 1990 Census. That is more than twice the 11.0 percent increase in total number of housing units in use from 1990 to 2000. Mobile homes accounted from 7.5 percent of Missouri's total housing stock in 1990 and 8.2 percent of the total in 2000.
The attached tables report for each county and region the number of mobile homes in use in 1990 and in 2000, the number and percent change in mobile homes and mobile homes as a percent of all occupied housing in the county/region for both 1990 and 2000.
Number of Mobile Homes in Use and Mobile Homes as a Percent of Total Housing by County 1990-2000
The number of mobile homes in use increased substantially throughout most parts of the state during the 1990s. In 83 counties the number of mobile homes in use increased by more than 100; there were 29 counties in which the number increased by more than 500. There were only 10 counties in which the number of mobile homes in use declined during the 1990s.
There is wide variation among counties in the prominence of mobile homes as a part of county housing stock as indicated on the adjoining map. There were 28 counties in 2000 in which mobile homes accounted for more than 20 percent of all county housing. The largest percentage was in Hickory County in which mobile homes accounted for 38.6 percent of county housing units. In general mobile homes are a more prominent part of housing in rural southern Missouri but also in a number of rural counties close to larger labor markets such as Ralls County adjacent to Hannibal, Lincoln County adjacent to St. Louis, Bollinger County adjacent to Cape Girardeau, Callaway County adjacent to Jefferson City, etc. Mobile homes have also played a role in meeting housing needs in some counties with large population/economic growth such as Taney (Branson) in which the number of mobile homes increased from 3,538 in 1990 to 4,908 in 2000. A similar increase occurred in adjoining Stone County, which increased from 2,549 to 3,580.
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Mobile Homes in Use By District/Region 1990-2000
University of Missouri Extension Regions
Mobile homes increased as a proportion of housing in each of the eight extension regions. Mobile homes accounted for 17.8 percent of all housing in the South Central Region and from 11.6 percent to 14.8 percent in the Central, Northeast, Southwest and Southeast Regions. Mobile homes account for a very small percent of total housing in the East Central (4.5 percent of all housing) and West Central (3.8 percent of all housing) Regions.
The number of mobile homes in use increased by at least 12.7 percent during the 1990s except in the East Central (9.3 percent increase) and Northwest (10.5 percent increase) Regions. Four of the regions, Northeast, South Central, Southeast and Southwest experienced increases of at least 30 percent in mobile home use during the 1990s. The greatest number increase (11,314) occurred in the Southwest Region in which significant economic and employment growth throughout the region has generated demand for housing.
Missouri Department of Transportation Districts
Mobile homes played a relatively minor role in satisfying demand for housing in the Kansas City and St. Louis Districts with mobile homes providing 3.2 percent and 3.1 percent respectively of total housing in those two districts. In both districts mobile homes as a percent of total housing declined slightly during the 1990s. Comparably, mobile homes also played a relatively minor role in meeting the need for housing in the Northwest District (8.1 percent of total housing).
Beyond those three districts, however, mobile homes have played an important role in supplying demand for housing in the remaining seven districts. Mobile homes accounted for more than 11.8 percent of total housing in each of those seven districts with the highest percent (20.7 percent of total) in the Willow Springs District.
Six of the districts had an increase of greater than 26 percent in number of mobile homes in use during the 1990s. In four of the districts, all in southern Missouri, the number of mobile homes increased by more than 30 percent with the increase reaching 48 percent in the Joplin District. A contributing factor to the major increase of mobile home housing in that district was significant in-migration of workers during the last half of the 1990s to supply the demand for labor generated by new meat processing plants.
Department of Economic Development Regions
Mobile homes account for a relatively small proportion of total housing in the Kansas City MSA and St. Louis MSA. In those two regions mobiles homes accounted for only 2.6 percent and 3.7 percent respectively of total housing in those two regions. Mobile homes also made a relatively small contribution to satisfying the demand for housing in the Northwest Region - in 2000 mobile homes accounted for only 8.3 percent of total region housing.
Following those three regions, mobile homes accounted for more than 11 percent of total housing in the remaining ten regions. With the exception of the South Central Region in which mobile homes accounted for 20.6 percent of regional housing the contribution made by mobile homes to meeting the demand for housing was quite similar through the remaining nine regions. In those regions the number of mobile homes increased from 1990 to 2000 by from 17.9 percent in the Central Region to 53.0 percent in the South Central Region. In the remaining eight regions the number of mobile homes increased during the 1990s from between 20.3 percent to 47.7 percent.
It is of some relevance to note that even in regions having had little population growth during the 1990s, e.g. North Central, North East, Bootheel, and Lower East Central-Cape Girardeau, the number of occupied mobile homes increased by more than 25 percent. Those regions have reported a housing shortage for the past several years. It is apparent that mobile homes became one type of housing adopted to satisfy that shortage.
Additional tables are attached which report Mobile Homes in Missouri 1990 and 2000 for three different sets of regions: eight University of Missouri Extension regions; 10 Missouri Department of Transportation regions; and 13 Missouri Department of Economic Development regions.
| Detailed Tables of Housing Unit Structure in Missouri: Mobile Homes 1990 and 2000 | ||
| The following links provide detailed tables of Housing Unit Structure in Missouri: Mobile Homes 1990 and 2000. They are in both HTML and Adobe Acrobat (PDF) formats. | ||
| All Missouri Counties | ||
| Housing Unit Structure in Missouri: Mobile Homes 1990 and 2000 - By County with State Totals | HTML | |
| Regional Tables | ||
| UO/E Regions | ||
| Housing Unit Structure in Missouri: Mobile Homes 1990 and 2000 - By County with State Totals - By UM Extension Region | HTML | |
| Housing Unit Structure in Missouri: Mobile Homes 1990 and 2000 - By County with State Totals - By County Within UM Extension Region | HTML | |
| DED Regions | ||
| Housing Unit Structure in Missouri: Mobile Homes 1990 and 2000 - By County with State Totals - By DED Region | HTML | |
| Housing Unit Structure in Missouri: Mobile Homes 1990 and 2000 - By County with State Totals - By County Within DED Region | HTML | |
| MoDOT Regions | ||
| Housing Unit Structure in Missouri: Mobile Homes 1990 and 2000 - By County with State Totals - By DOT District | HTML | |
| Housing Unit Structure in Missouri: Mobile Homes 1990 and 2000 - By County with State Totals - By County Within DOT District | HTML | |
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