I enjoyed this piece and just linked to it on X -- but I feel obligated to point out that there's a correction needed, here: "...about 12,200 square miles, or 0.00032% of US land area..."
The USA is ~3,800,000 sq. miles. So 12,200 sq. = 0.32%. Your decimal ended up in the wrong place. :)
Thank you for compiling this data. One additional thing I was trying to research is commercial building permits annually and, of those, their segmentation by company size. Did your research for this article point to data sources for this? Glad my Googling brought me to Construction Physics!
I enjoyed this piece and just linked to it on X -- but I feel obligated to point out that there's a correction needed, here: "...about 12,200 square miles, or 0.00032% of US land area..."
The USA is ~3,800,000 sq. miles. So 12,200 sq. = 0.32%. Your decimal ended up in the wrong place. :)
Thanks for this study! Its really nice to see the numbers broken down like this.
Thank you for compiling this data. One additional thing I was trying to research is commercial building permits annually and, of those, their segmentation by company size. Did your research for this article point to data sources for this? Glad my Googling brought me to Construction Physics!
You know I knew that most homes in the US are single family, but 67%? Dang.