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Show Only Small Change In Housing Vacancies No appreciable change in housing vacancies was reported re-ported for the Salt Lake City area in a recent survey sponsored spon-sored by the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle. AN OVERALL vacancy rate of 1 .9 percent was reported for October 1980 for the area which encompasses Cache. Box Elder. Weber. Davis, Salt Lake, Tooele, and Utah counties. The 1980 vacancy figure compares with 1.6 percent in 1979 and 1.7 percent in 1978. The community of Dugway showed the highest overall vacancy rate at 10.3 percent. SINGLE-FAMILY vacancies vacan-cies remained extremely low in 1980 at I.I percent of 276.451 units, slightly higher than the 0.9 percent in 1979 when there were 254,532 units. The overall apartment vacancy rate was 5.3 percent in 1980 compared to 3.9 percent per-cent in 1979. The number of apartment units increased from 76,358 to 84.802 during the period. COMMUNITIES reporting apartment vacancy rates significantly signi-ficantly higher than the average aver-age were Brigham City with 12.7 percent, Tremonton with 13.1 percent, Hyrum with 8.3 percent, and Magna with 10.7 percent. Ogden reported an overall vacancy rate of 2.8 percent with a 1 .0 percent rate for single-family dwellings and 8.2 percent for apartments. THE OVERALL vacancy rate in Salt Lake City for October Octo-ber 1980 was 2.4 percent. The single-family rate was 1.0 percent per-cent while apartment vacancies vacan-cies were 6.0 percent. Housing vacancy surveys are cofunded by the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle and the Department of Housing Hous-ing and Urban Development. Surveys are conducted by mail carriers as they cover their delivery de-livery routes. COPIES OF the Salt Lake City area survey can be obtained from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle. |