The census has data on houses. The American Housing Survey for 2009 has all sorts of data on housing in the US. I looked specifically at table 3-3 'size of unit and lot' to get the data below on current home sizes.
Graphically the distribution of home sizes for owner occupied houses looks like this:
Note that the far right item covers 5.3% of home sizes that were 'not reported'.
Lets chop the data up and look at it a few ways:
45% of homes are between 1,000 and 1,999 sq. ft.
41% of homes are between 1,500 and 2,499 sq. ft.
63% of homes are between 1,000 and 2,499 sq. ft.
72% of homes are between 1,000 and 2,999 sq. ft.
7.3% of homes are less than 1,000 sq. ft.
14.8% of homes are over 3,000 sq. ft.
Here is the data in table format:
Less than 500 | 383 | 0.6% |
500 to 749 | 1,085 | 1.6% |
750 to 999 | 3,519 | 5.1% |
1,000 to 1,499 | 14,978 | 21.8% |
1,500 to 1,999 | 16,284 | 23.7% |
2,000 to 2,499 | 12,057 | 17.5% |
2,500 to 2,999 | 6,622 | 9.6% |
3,000 to 3,999 | 6,391 | 9.3% |
4,000 or more | 3,787 | 5.5% |
Not reported | 3,638 | 5.3% |
Total | 68,742 |
I'm only looking at owner occupied homes. So this does not include rental properties.
Currently our house falls roughly in the middle at about 1,400 sq. ft. We're looking into getting a bigger home eventually.