According to the US Census Bureau’s Annual Survey of Construction, single-family homes built in 2024 typically featured two full bathrooms.
Homes with three full bathrooms continued to have the second highest number of starts, at roughly 23%. Meanwhile, residences with four full bathrooms or more and those with one bathroom or less accounted for less than 10 percent of all homes.
According to the Bureau, a full bathroom consists of a washbasin, a toilet, and either a bathtub or a shower, or a combination of both.
65.0% of new single-family homes built in 2024 had two full bathrooms, indicating the second consecutive year of rise.
For the third year in a row, the proportion of single-family homes with three full bathrooms declined to 23.3%, while the proportion with four or more bathrooms climbed to 7.2%. Start-ups with one full bathroom or fewer declined to 4.5%.
In the United States, the East South Central division had the largest share of new single-family homes with two full bathrooms, at 71.6%.
No other division accounted for more than 70%. The Middle Atlantic had the lowest rate, with 52.0% of new single-family homes reporting two full bathrooms.
Starts in the Middle Atlantic division were significantly more likely to have four full bathrooms or more (20.2%), more than doubling any other division in terms of percentage.
Half-Bathrooms
At 53.7%, the majority of new single-family homes built in 2024 did not include half-bathrooms. 44.9% of new single-family houses have one half-bathroom.
In 2024, new single-family homes with two or more half-bathrooms accounted for only 1.4% of the market.
A half bathroom has a toilet, bathtub, or shower, although not all facilities are categorized as complete bathrooms.
Half-bathrooms have historically been more common in the New England Census division than the other eight divisions.
In 2024, 64.0% of new single-family homes built in the New England division featured at least one half-bathroom.
The Pacific division had the lowest share, with only 38.3% of starts having at least one half bathroom.
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