The typical new American house peaked at 2,467 square feet in 2015. By 2025 it had shrunk to 2,142 square feet. Before that, new houses had grown for four decades, from 1,525 square feet in 1973. The strip at the top of the chart shows the median size of a new house; the colored bands below show the share of new single-family houses built each year in e…
Why Did New Homes Stop Getting Bigger?
New houses grew for forty years, then began shrinking in 2015
