This report presents urban and rural housing characteristics from the 1974 Annual Housing Survey for the United States and each of the four geographic regions. The Annual Housing Survey was designed to provide a current series of information on the size and composition of the housing inventory, the characteristics of its occupants, the changes in the inventory resulting from new construction and from losses, the indicators of housing and neighborhood quality, the characteristics of recent movers, and the characteristics of urban and rural housing units.The survey, performed for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, is authorized under sections 501 and 502(d), 502(e), and 502(f) of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1970, Title 12, United States Code 1701z-1 and 17012-2. The Bureau of the Census is authorized under Title 31,United States Code 686, to perform special work or services for Federal agencies.

This report is part of the collection of scanned historical documents available to the public.