Manufactured Housing Production, Shipment and Sales Growth Continues in April 2022
Manufactured housing is offering American consumers a path to quality affordable home ownership, as manufactured home production and sales growth continue to advance despite multiple headwinds, including inflationary pressures, supply chain interruptions and workforce issues.
The following official statistical shipment/production reports, courtesy of the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) and the Manufactured Association of Regulatory Reform (MHARR)) clearly validates the continuing role of manufactured homes in addressing America’s deepening affordable housing crisis.
The first report is the Monthly Economic Report provided by MHI comparing manufactured home shipments through April 2022 with the previous month and year.
10,168 New HUD-Code Homes Shipped In April
(MHI) — In April 2022, 10,168 new manufactured homes were shipped, a decrease of 1,100 homes or 9.8 percent compared to March 2022, and an increase of 909 homes or 9.8 percent compared to April 2021. Compared with the same month last year, shipments of single-section homes were up 26.1 percent, while shipments of multi-section homes were down 0.9 percent. Total floors shipped in April 2022 were 15,790. An increase of 5.9 percent compared with the same month last year.
The seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) of shipments was 124,424 in April 2022, up 3.9 percent compared to the adjusted rate of 119,810 in March 2022. The SAAR corrects for normal seasonal variations and projects annual shipments based on the current monthly total.
The number of plants reporting production in April 2022 was 141 and the number of active corporations was 33, the same number of plants and corporations as in the prior month.
Top Ten Manufactured Home Shipment States
(MHARR) – An analysis of the official statistics shows that the top ten states from the beginning of the production rebound in August 2911 through April 2022 and prior year (2021) shipments per category as indicated – are:
State Cumulative April 2022 2022 2021
Homes Current Month
- Texas 144,705 1,877 7,245 6,217
- Florida 53,759 761 2,998 2,441
- Louisiana 48,317 464 1,949 1,927
- N.C. 38,193 652 2,346 2,058
- Alabama 36,611 559 2,024 1,767
- Mississippi 30,435 365 1,528 1,487
- Michigan 29,470 447 1,466 1,313
- California 29,972 348 1,303 1,113
- Kentucky 27,356 340 1,407 1,358
- Tennessee 24,085 329 1.313 1,143
The April 2022 data results in no changes to the cumulative top-ten shipment list.
Note: The shipment/production statistics do not include a significant number of non-HUD Code modular homes produced by HUD Code manufactured home builders.
