Parking Trends in Newly Completed Single-Family Homes

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new. – Socrates

In case you were curious,the NAHB’s Eye on Housing saysthat in 2024, 65% of newly completed single-family homes featured two-car garages. The share of new homes with three or more car garages stood at 15%, continuing a downward trend from its peak of 24% in 2015 and decreasing 2 percentage points from 2023. One-car garages, which have been steadily increasing in recent years, reached their highest share in three decades coming in at 9%. Shares of homes with carports and homes without any parking facility remained steady, coming in at 1% and 9%. This was all according to NAHB’s analysis of the Census’s Survey of Construction data.

The NAHB says“Garage size also tended to grow with the house.” Indeed….