Manufactured-home shipments by region
The 2024 Manufactured Housing Survey public-use file contains 5,048 records: 4,859 sampled manufactured homes plus 189 homes shipped to FEMA-only dealers. Census defines the status as the home's condition four months after shipment and identifies four Census regions. This is a measured sample and timing rule, not a count of every home entering a named park.
Census records a sampled home's status four months after shipment and publishes monthly U.S. shipments and annual state totals. The file excludes resale and modular homes. A comparison must keep period, geography, home size, and denominator constant: a sampled placement status cannot be divided directly into a park's all-home move-ins without a coverage explanation.
Compare the regional series with local permits, utility-ready pads, completed move-ins, and dealer conversations. Those records answer different pipeline questions. The public sample can frame transport and service-capacity questions, but cannot forecast one property's occupancy or prove that a regional change caused a local change.