Full annual data record
U.S. Housing Market Data Table, 1963–2024
Every annual figure in the Almanac's master table — new home sales (Census), existing-home sales (NAR), median prices for both, and the 30-year fixed mortgage rate (Freddie Mac PMMS). Recession years marked with the rust dot.
— Data through full-year 2024.
| Year | New Sales (K) | Existing Sales (M) | Total (M) | New Median ($) | Existing Median ($) | 30Y Mortgage |
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Notable Cycles
Four genuine peaks, four wholly different recoveries.
The cleanest summary lives in the rightmost columns: the median existing home cost 5.4× median U.S. household income in 2024, the highest stretch in the 56-year series. Mortgage rates near 7% have made monthly payments larger than at any prior moment in the record.Definitions
- Sales
units, K or M - Price
median, current $ - Rate
30-yr fixed, % APR - SAAR
Census - EHS
NAR - PMMS
Freddie Mac - Recession
NBER monthly
What's in the Table
The master table on this page is the single source of truth for The Housing Almanac. Every year archive, every Q&A page, and every dashboard view on this site is built from these numbers. Six annual columns span 1963–2024: new home sales (thousands of units, Census), existing home sales (millions of closed transactions, NAR), median sale prices for both new and existing (current dollars, Census & NAR), and the 30-year fixed conventional mortgage rate (annual average, Freddie Mac PMMS). Recession years are flagged with the rust dot per the NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee.
How to Use It
Click any year in the leftmost column to open the full archive page for that year — Macroeconomic Context, Mortgage & Credit, Cycle Position, Long-View Comparison, and Sources & Methodology sections. The toggle at the top of the page switches between the table view and the chart view of the same data. For sub-national breakdowns, the 100 metro pages and 51 state pages extend the master series with FHFA House Price Index data back to 1975. The Almanac re-fetches the underlying Census, NAR, and Freddie Mac releases each year; for pull dates and methodology notes, see the About page.
Reuse and Citation
The Almanac's master annual table is open-licensed under Creative Commons BY 4.0. The underlying federal series themselves are public domain. If you cite the table in research, journalism, or analysis, please attribute as "Housing Almanac, compiled from U.S. Census Bureau, National Association of Realtors, and Freddie Mac PMMS". Embeddable chart code is on the roadmap. For data corrections or methodology questions, the About page lists contact details.