In a broad-ranging article on RVing, a Baltimore Sun journalist suggests the number of fulltime RVers in the United States is around one million. While the writer doesn't say where his information comes from, it's an interesting thought. That would mean that a little over 3/10ths of 1% of the US population calls an RV home. As an interesting excercise, we started tallying up the folks that we know who are fulltimers to compare to those who weren't. We had to finally give it up, because we know too many people to keep it all straight.If our experiences with readers of various blogs and articles that we publish is any indicator, there are a whole lot of folks who want to mushroom out that one million fulltimers estimate. Just take a look at any Internet forum directed to the fulltime lifestyle. Yes, there's a lot of fulltimers who participate, and lots more who have intelligent, meaningful questions about the lifestyle, those who want to get out and do it. Almost universally the advice that's given by fulltimers boils down to: "Don't let the grass grow under your feet--get out there!"
Other statistics from the Balty story: Averaging it all out, the typical RVer is married, 49-years old, owns a home (we presume landlocked), and lives in a household with a $68,000 annual income. In terms of age groups, if you own an RV and you're between 35 and 54, you're in the biggest group of RV owners. Across the US, over 7% of households have at least one RV--8 million homes with RVs.
Check out the full story in the Baltimore Sun.
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3 comments:
That would mean that a little over 3/10ths of the US population calls an RV home
That's like saying a nearly a third of the US population uses RVs.
Perhaps you mean 3/10ths of 1 percent?
Bless our readers for their careful scrutiny. Correction made! And with apologies to Billy Shakespear, "Out! Out! Darned printer's devil!"
Could the reporter be including the Katrina victims who are living in trailers?
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