The Surprising Reason Manufactured Homes Are Booming in Texas

It has been a while since we've seen Texas top the rankings in a study. Everything is bigger in Texas, and according to a recent study, that extends to our love of manufactured homes.

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Texas Tops the Nation in Manufactured Homes

With the housing market being the way it has been for a while, and most people looking for something affordable, manufactured houses have seemingly filled that gap in the Lone Star State. Texas is the top spot in the nation for manufactured houses.

You might think that manufactured homes are the same as mobile homes or trailers, but there are some big differences. Trailers are meant to be mobile, while mobile homes and manufactured homes are meant to be more permanent.

From Mobile to Manufactured: A Key Shift

The difference between a mobile home and a manufactured home is when they were made. In 1976, the HUD code went into effect. After that, mobile homes started being referred to as manufactured homes.

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Modern manufactured homes are built to the HUD code, and they're meant to be permanent. They're also considerably cheaper than buying a traditional home.

Price Gap: Manufactured vs Traditional

According to a recent study done by Construction Coverage, the average manufactured home in Texas costs around $122,000. The average single-family home runs almost $312,000. It makes sense that people would be choosing manufactured homes.

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Texas shipped over 18,000 manufactured homes last year, and there were over 158,000 permits issued. Last year, just over 10% of all new single-family homes in Texas were manufactured homes.

If you've been wanting to buy a home, but the cost is holding you back, it looks like Texans are turning to manufactured homes.