The cheapest new house in America still rolls in on a truck, so we mapped the mobile homes by state, who has them, and what they cost. The country has 7.9 million mobile and manufactured homes, 5.4 percent of all housing, and a new one averages $134,800 against $514,600 for the average new site-built house sold.
America has 7,939,191 mobile and manufactured homes, about 1 in 18 housing units nationwide.
New Mexico has the highest share of any state at 15 percent, with Mississippi, West Virginia, and South Carolina close behind.
Florida has the biggest count at 824,425, edging Texas at 776,232.
Factories shipped 102,422 new manufactured homes last year, and 17 percent of them went to Texas alone.
A new manufactured home averages about a quarter of the price of the average new site-built house sold.
The map, the full state table, and the price math are below.
Which state has the most mobile homes?
Depends what you count. By raw numbers, Florida leads with 824,425 mobile and manufactured homes, just ahead of Texas at 776,232, then North Carolina, California, and Georgia. By share of housing, the answer moves inland: 15 percent of New Mexico’s housing stock is mobile or manufactured, the highest in the nation, followed by Mississippi at 14 and West Virginia at 13.2.
Two ways to lead the nation.
15.0%of New Mexico’s housing is mobile or manufactured, the highest share of any statethe share leader
824,425mobile and manufactured homes in Florida, the biggest count of any statethe count leader
Source: Census Bureau, ACS 2024 one-year estimates, table B25024.
You may have seen older lists crowning other states. The most-quoted share figure on the internet traces to a government summary from 2002, and the most-quoted counts to an industry snapshot from 2023 with a narrower universe. Our numbers come from the newest Census American Community Survey.
The bottom of the list is the dense, expensive coast. Mobile homes are 0.1 percent of housing in DC, 0.3 percent in Hawaii, 0.7 in Connecticut, and 0.8 in Rhode Island.
Map: mobile homes by state, ranked by the share of housing that is mobile or manufactured, darkest = highest share (New Mexico, 15.0%). Census American Community Survey, newest one-year estimates.Percentage of all housing units that are mobile or manufactured homes, from 0.1% in DC up to New Mexico’s 15.0%.
Source: Census Bureau, ACS 2024 one-year estimates, table B25024.
The table below shows every state plus DC: the percentage of housing that’s mobile or manufactured, the raw count, and how many new manufactured homes were shipped there last year. Sort it however you want.
Mobile homes by state: all 50 states plus DC, ranked by the percentage of housing units that are mobile or manufactured homes (Census ACS, newest one-year estimates). The shipments column is new manufactured homes shipped to each state in the newest full year (Census MHS). Click a header to sort.
Rank
State
Share of housing
Mobile homes
New shipments (2025)
1
New Mexico
15.0%
146,137
1,647
2
Mississippi
14.0%
189,635
3,994
3
West Virginia
13.2%
114,584
1,133
4
South Carolina
12.8%
325,090
5,232
5
Louisiana
12.2%
260,511
4,607
6
Alabama
11.6%
275,265
5,314
7
Wyoming
11.3%
31,794
310
8
Arkansas
10.5%
149,775
1,831
9
North Carolina
10.4%
525,544
6,269
10
Kentucky
10.3%
211,861
3,800
11
Montana
9.6%
51,792
408
12
Arizona
9.0%
296,171
2,236
13
Maine
8.2%
63,082
985
14
Oklahoma
8.0%
143,632
2,584
15
Florida
7.8%
824,425
6,804
16
Tennessee
7.5%
244,600
3,829
17
Georgia
7.4%
345,541
4,807
18
Delaware
7.3%
34,659
322
19
South Dakota
7.2%
30,656
385
20
Oregon
6.7%
126,727
1,387
21
Idaho
6.5%
54,080
507
22
Vermont
6.4%
21,891
202
23
Texas
6.2%
776,232
17,458
24
North Dakota
5.7%
21,813
294
25
New Hampshire
5.5%
36,273
308
26
Washington
5.3%
180,785
1,605
27
Nevada
5.2%
71,125
502
28
Michigan
5.0%
234,347
3,555
29
Missouri
5.0%
143,622
1,768
30
Virginia
4.4%
166,299
1,548
31
Indiana
4.2%
127,964
2,028
32
Kansas
4.0%
52,753
467
33
California
3.4%
507,774
3,065
34
Pennsylvania
3.4%
198,970
1,923
35
Alaska
3.3%
10,983
24
36
Colorado
3.3%
86,548
826
37
Ohio
3.3%
176,771
2,127
38
Iowa
3.2%
46,829
507
39
Utah
3.0%
38,395
269
40
Wisconsin
3.0%
84,595
925
41
Minnesota
2.7%
70,336
813
42
Nebraska
2.6%
22,737
279
43
Illinois
2.2%
119,544
1,059
44
New York
2.1%
183,310
1,677
45
Maryland
1.4%
35,248
184
46
Massachusetts
0.9%
26,128
128
47
New Jersey
0.9%
34,792
309
48
Rhode Island
0.8%
3,736
14
49
Connecticut
0.7%
11,510
163
50
Hawaii
0.3%
1,951
4
51
District of Columbia
0.1%
369
0
–
USA
5.4%
7,939,191
102,422
Source: Census Bureau, ACS 2024 one-year estimates, table B25024; Census Manufactured Housing Survey annual shipments.
How much does a manufactured home cost?
The average new manufactured home sold for $134,800 in the newest monthly Census figure: $89,100 for a single-section home and $163,100 for a double. Set that against the average new site-built house sold, $514,600, and the manufactured home comes in at about a quarter of the price.
That gap is the whole reason this market exists. For the price of one average new house, you can buy the home three times over and still have money left for the land, which is why manufactured housing keeps carrying the affordable-ownership load in the South and Southwest.
What a new home costs, factory versus site-built.
$89,100average price of a new single-section manufactured homeCensus MHS, newest monthly average
$163,100average price of a new double-section manufactured homeCensus MHS, newest monthly average
$134,800average across all new manufactured homesCensus MHS, newest monthly average
$514,600average new site-built house sold in the USCensus/HUD ASPUS, newest quarterly
Where are new manufactured homes going?
Texas, overwhelmingly. Factories shipped 102,422 new manufactured homes nationwide last year, and 17,458 of them, 17 percent, went to Texas, more than two and a half times second-place Florida’s 6,804. North Carolina, Alabama, and South Carolina round out the top five.
The shipment map is even more Southern than the stock map. New supply flows to where land is cheap, lots are legal, and the installed base already lives, which means the mobile-home belt keeps deepening rather than spreading.
Where the 102,422 new manufactured homes shipped in the newest full year went: the top 8 states.
Texas17,458
Florida6,804
North Carolina6,269
Alabama5,314
South Carolina5,232
Georgia4,807
Louisiana4,607
Mississippi3,994
Source: Census Bureau, Manufactured Housing Survey, annual shipments to states.
Methodology: where these numbers come from
Stock figures come from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey 2024 one-year estimates, table B25024: mobile homes as a category of units in structure, for the 50 states plus DC. Shipment figures come from the Census Bureau’s Manufactured Housing Survey, which compiles reports of new homes shipped to each state; we use the newest full year, 2025. Prices are the same survey’s average sales price of new manufactured homes, newest monthly reading, set against the average sales price of new houses sold from the Census and HUD series.
One definitional note: the Census category includes both pre-1976 mobile homes and post-1976 manufactured homes, which are built to the federal HUD code. Counts and shares are ACS; shipments are MHS; the two universes are labeled wherever they appear.
Stock and shares: Census ACS 2024 1-year, table B25024
New shipments: Census Manufactured Housing Survey, newest full year (2025)
Prices: Census MHS newest monthly average; site-built comparison from the Census/HUD ASPUS series
Mobile = built before the June 1976 HUD code; manufactured = built after
For the broader housing picture, our US housing statistics page covers the whole stock.
Bottom line
Manufactured housing is America’s quiet affordability program: 7.9 million homes, one in eighteen housing units, at about a quarter of the price of site-built. It’s also intensely regional. New Mexico is at 15 percent of its housing; Connecticut sits at 0.7.
If you’re weighing one, the price math is real but incomplete. The home is cheap; the land under it, and the lot rent if you don’t own that land, is where the deal gets decided.
Frequently asked questions
How many mobile homes are in the US?
America has 7,939,191 mobile and manufactured homes, or 5.4 percent of all housing units, per the newest Census American Community Survey. That’s about 1 in 18 homes nationwide. Florida has the most at 824,425, while New Mexico has the highest share of its housing at 15 percent.
How much does a new manufactured home cost?
A new manufactured home averages $134,800 in the newest monthly Census figure, with single-section homes at $89,100 and double-section homes at $163,100. That’s about a quarter of the $514,600 average for a new site-built house sold. Land and lot rent are separate and vary widely.
What is the difference between a mobile home and a manufactured home?
The dividing line is June 1976, when the federal HUD construction code took effect. Homes built before then are mobile homes; factory-built homes after that date are manufactured homes, built to the national HUD standard. Modular homes are different again: factory-built sections assembled to the same local codes as site-built houses.
What is the cheapest state to buy a mobile home in?
Prices vary more by home size than by state: single-section homes average $89,100 nationally versus $163,100 for double-sections, per the Census Manufactured Housing Survey. States with deep manufactured-home markets like Texas, Alabama, and the Carolinas tend to have the most inventory and competition. The bigger state-level cost difference is usually land and lot rent.
Which states have the fewest mobile homes?
DC effectively has none at 0.1 percent of its housing, followed by Hawaii at 0.3 percent and Connecticut at 0.7, per Census data. Dense, expensive coastal states zone little land for manufactured housing. Rhode Island rounds out the bottom at 0.8 percent.
US Census Bureau and US Department of Housing and Urban Development via FRED. “Average Sales Price of Houses Sold for the United States (ASPUS).” 2026. fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ASPUS
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