Housing Trends: Top 10 Cities With the Smallest—and Largest—Homes

Living in a home that offers comfort, relaxation, and ease is among the dream of many homeowners out there. Does it really matter if it's big or not, or does it matter on what the location can provide? According to usatoday.com, "Americans usually take into consideration the location and the income, and that is also the reason why their home sizes can vary widely."

• First city to make the mark is Jersey City, NJ. According to realtor.com, "Just across the river from Manhattan, Jersey City is an inexpensive alternative to the Big Apple." It is a dense city and resident's lives in a median square footage of 1,019.
• Second on the list is Honolulu, HI. In this place, real estate is costly. The average home in Honolulu is quite small, and the median takes up only 1,024 square feet as stated in a report by realtor.com. It offers amazing sceneries of the Pacific island.
• The third surprising location is Detroit. The Motor City has home sizes of around 1,026 square feet even though the whole area has plentiful land. According to a report by realtor.com, "The region, together with the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, has some of the oldest housing stock in the country."
• When it comes to providing the best use of limited living space, the homeowners Des Moines, IA has to be resourceful since the home only features a median square footage of 1,096.
• The fifth one is Yonkers, NY. It is often called as the sixth borough of New York. The usual home size in Yonkers is in 1,100 square feet.
• The 6^th city that has the smallest and largest home size is Washington, DC. The median size housing size in the nation's capital presently stands at 1,154 square feet. According to realtor.com, "It happens to host the Micro Showcase which is a tiny-home commune that features high-quality micro structures under 350 square feet."
• Boston qualifies as well. This classic New England city features a housing market with a median age of more than 100 years and the Boston residential homes is 1,233 square feet as stated in a report by realtor.com.

Other cities are Philadelphia, Oakland, and Baltimore. These cities have similar median size housing that ranges from median square footage of 1,240 to 1,280. Regardless of the limited space, these cities offer the ease of comfort and easy access to different locations that any homeowner can get to enjoy.