Texas reigns supreme for having the greatest share of its homes built within the past 15 years, new data show.
Nearly a quarter of properties in the Lone Star State — 22.5 percent — were built after 2010, according to an analysis from The Steamboat Group, a Colorado-based real estate firm. That’s about 2.5 million homes.
Second place went to North Dakota, where about 21 percent of that state’s homes, or roughly 233,000, date to after 2010.
Texas and North Dakota’s share of new homes are almost double the 11.9 percent national figure of homes built since 2010.
Texas has been among the fastest-growing states in the country, and on the receiving end of a population and construction boom. North Dakota’s population also has surged, by 18 percent, from 2010 to 2024 to a record nearly 800,000 residents, according to U.S. census data. It too is among the fastest-growing states in the U.S..
Texas and North Dakota ranked 20th and 15th, respectively, among the cheapest states in the country to buy a house, according to a March analysis from listings platform Redfin.
Only one coastal state, Delaware, cracked the top 10 of the ranking of states with the newest housing stock. Shore-hugging states in general, like California and New York, have some of the least affordable housing markets — with the least amount of available land — in the country.
About 66,000 properties in Delaware, or 16.5 percent of them, were constructed after 2010 — good for eighth place on the list. Delaware’s population grew by 1.5 percent in 2024 from the year before, making it the ninth-fastest growing state in the U.S., according to census data.
Among the states with the lowest share of new builds were Rhode Island and Connecticut, according to The Steamboat Group. In Rhode Island, about 4.6 percent of houses were built after 2010, and in Connecticut the figure is about 5.7 percent. Other highly populated states like New York and Illinois also had low shares of newly built properties in their housing inventories.
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