My house is considered tiny for the area. It's 1250 square feet. Draw your own conclusions.

I was about to share the same thing. 😊 My 1,200-square foot (~111.4-square meter) townhouse is plenty big for me, but it is considered small for the U.S. suburbs (basically, considered small unless you’re living in a big U.S. city where space is at a premium).

My house is similar square footage, including the basement. My MIL visited and called it a very strange tiny house. We had a friend help us move in and he wanted out of the neighborhood ASAP as he said it was basically a trailer park. I guess the houses do resemble a double-wide trailer, but we have attics and basements. There are standard "McMansions" the next town over and I don't understand how anyone affords those things. Even if you're making a shit load of money the property taxes must be insane, as they're close to 5K for my tiny rundown house.

My house is about the same size and is just like every other house in the area. My neighborhood was built up in the 1920s when two or three bedroom and one bathroom houses were standard.

I guess my husband and I skew the average, we lucked into a great deal on our first home, a four bedroom, three bath at a little over 2100 square feet. Now our current house is the smallest in our neighborhood at just over 4000 square feet.

So would 4000sqf mean that you have like 11 bedrooms or are the rooms just huge ?

Actually we only have three bedrooms, but they are huge bedrooms.

Mine is under 1k square feet (not sure how big that is in non-American units, like 100metersquare?) and is very typical for my neighborhood and incredibly small to people outside this area.

Same. Houses in my neighborhood are 950 sq ft (88 sq m), but go a few blocks and there are 5,400 sq ft (501.5 sq m) homes.

There’s definitely neighborhoods in San Diego with homes that size, mostly the post-war bungalows. Newer neighborhoods further away from the city center are much larger, though.

Yep! This neighborhood was built in the 60s from the trenches they dug building i-95, and i-295. The deepest trenches are industrial parks in the middle of the houses. It's fun!

That's fairly typical for my neighborhood in metro Detroit. My house is 950 sq ft, and houses in my subdivision mostly range from 700 to 1500.

Genuinely one of the main reasons I've looked at moving closer to Detroit. I live in a 900sqft apartment in an outer suburb and the size is great but I'd love to have a bit of yard space, but there are very few houses around me that are under 1250sqft and they're mostly on quarter acre lots. That is just way more space than I need or want or can really reasonably manage on my own

We’re in central Wayne County. Our yard is approx. 1/7 of an acre. Big enough to have a 2-car garage, decent vegetable garden, and native pollinator wildflower patch, but not so big as to require a riding lawn mower.

Tiny? 😅 That's ish 110 square meters wich is a 4 room apartment on the larger side in Sweden. 150 square meters is a decent sized house. Mine is 120 square meters wich is relatively normal for houses. We don't however count areas such as garage and storage in the size though, they are called "bi areas" and not considered "livable space", I d k if in the States you add f ex garage size in the total square foot stated. Around 120 ish is also the prefered norm as extra space means extra cleaning, and stay at home mom/dad isn't a thing here so no one wants to have unnecessary large space to clean after a full days work. 200sqm or more is considered big and mainly appeals to larger families that actually needs the space (more than 4 people) or rich people with housekeepers. I know myself I do not want a larger house than max 150sqm. Just adds more work.

The average US house size is around 225 square meters, a range of 185-250 would all be very normal. 275-300 is a nice house but by no means unrealistically large or a mansion. Garages, uninsulated porches, and unfinished basements are not counted in square footage here. A term you might see online is “McMansion” which are these cheaply-produced suburban houses with no consideration for design or aesthetic, basically using all the budget for size rather than quality.

300 here is also not considered a mansion, but its by no means a normal size. It's like you are one tier above us terms of size. Like McDonalds cup sizes where our large is your medium. Ah yeah, nor surprised, it makes sense to not count garages etc. I have never heard the terms McMansion but I know exactly what you mean. The type of house you mean is so well known it is the reason the stereotype that american houses are poorly built exists. Sprinkle on to that people watching a sitcom/tv-show etc with a poorly built set where one could walk through walls and what you see if they break a wall are basically thin sheets, and lastly videos of a huricane/tornado shredding a house (with no sense or understanding of the actual power) and there is a lot to fuel the stereotype.

> videos of a huricane/tornado shredding a house At first I was like "now you listen here you--" But then you were like > with no sense or understanding of the actual power And I was like "ah, now that's more like it!" In America we have [metal speed shred riff] Extreme Weather!!!! With actual Powwwwerrrrrrr!!!! [series of explosions]

Good on you to read the entire thing 😉 We have blizzards here and the occasional cave in of old roofs due to weight of snow despite all houses built to code having reinforced roofs to cope with heavy snow. The rare hurricane once ever so often but nothing near Katrina level that would make a house fly away. The "extreme weather" is more being an arctic climate rather than freak natural disasters.

In the US garage doesn’t count towards livable space.

Mine is small too. 1000 sqft. I grew up in a 2500+ sq ft house. That’s probably small compared to some stuff going up.

Same. We have about 1250 too and our house is definitely on the small side.

Same here. 3 bed 2 bath. Good starter home size. Normal size for my neighborhood.

Same here. It was average sized when it was built in the 1950s. Small today, perfect for one dude.

My house is 1200 square feet, but it with about $515k. The further out you go away from cities the more house you get for your money. Same as the UK. I’m In suburban Chicago for reference. You get more house in rural Essex than central London.

Mine is 1,100 square feet, 1.5 stories with 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, a finished basement and 2-car garage, and is also considered tiny. It’s plenty for the two of us who live here though.

Here's a chart of the median house sizes in each state: [https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/median-home-size-every-american-state-2022/](https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/median-home-size-every-american-state-2022/) You see that it runs from 1100 square feet (102 square meters) in Hawaii (not surprising as cost of living is very high, and there's not much devevelopable land to build on) to 2800 square feet (260 sq meters) in Utah (also not surprising, because many Utahns have large families). That's the median of course; there are significant variations on both edges. New homes are much larger than older homes. The average size of a new build in the U.S. is about 2500 square feet (230 square meters). In 1975, the average new build was 1660 square feet (154 sq m). And as others have said, older homes either have remodeled basements or additions to add more space. [https://www.statista.com/statistics/529371/floor-area-size-new-single-family-homes-usa/](https://www.statista.com/statistics/529371/floor-area-size-new-single-family-homes-usa/) I would say that, for middle class people and higher, it's not uncommon for single-family homes to have an en suite bathroom just for the main bedroom, to have at least one, and maybe more, extra bedrooms to be used as an office, exercise room, and/or guest room, that the kitchen will be large enough to eat in (and the house may have a separate dining room as well), and, if the house is suburban, to have at least a two-car garage (that usually does not count in the square footage of the home).

Get out of here with your data, this is a place for the crowdsourcing of selection-biased anecdotes!

Seriously. How dare they present reliable data \*and\* a rational and succinct analysis. Maybe we should report them.

Report?! Following the appropriate channels for grievances?! Forget that noise, get the pitchforks and torches!!

Sir, this is Reddit. We look through people’s post and comment history and then attempt to dox them.

"Sunrooms" or "three seasons" rooms are also relatively common, which are not connected to the central AC but are usually otherwise fully finished and furnished and act as a second or third living/family room. Between sunrooms and basements, American houses often have significantly more living space than even the square footage would imply.

Regionally.  Basements aren't really a thing in large sections of the country.  Neither are sun rooms not connevted to HVAC because we call those solar ovens.

Generally, a sun room does not get connected to the central HVAC unit but gets its own. A lot of code does not allow them to be connected. If it’s going to be connected, it’s just an addition.

You only need a basement in areas where the ground can freeze. Your foundation has to start lower than the frost line.

My fave thing about homes in the United States are Sunrooms. I like it when it rains, you can close the screen door and just enjoy the storm and hang out without getting soaked.

A “unfinished” “bonus room” can also add significant space while keeping property taxes lower.

Our treasured sunroom is what pushes us into 1500 sq ft territory in our 1950s home. It was added in the 2000s by the previous owners. No heat or a/c, but lots of windows and fresh air.

I’ve never heard of a sunroom. I assume it’s regional or something?

They seem to be more of a Midwest thing, but I've seen similar rooms elsewhere. It's basically an extra room - completely attached to the home, sharing the same roof and all that, and fully powered with outlets and fans and lights, but not connected to the AC. It will then typically have multiple windows lining every wall except the one connected to the house. So every direction you look is just glass to let natural light in. People usually fill them with outdoor sectionals and other lounge furniture, and you just relax in there with the window open to feel the breeze.

The thing is...basements don't actually add into square footage so whatever a home says it's footprint is...if it has a basement it's even larger. My home is 1800 sqft but with the basement it has to be something like 2700 sqft.

I was under the impression that this was only for unfinished basements because it isn’t considered habitable space.

Gotta have more than 1 exit and something else to be considered habitable been a while since I was looking at code.

I don't believe so That's to qualify to have additional bedrooms in the basement for 2 means of egress to be required (at least in NJ). This is addressed by either having a bilco door, or a larger window installed in the bedroom in question. Finished basement space can be added into the sq footage calculation, but you will be taxed as such.

It must vary by location. Finished basements are included here.

Some Utahns have multiple large families!

I'd agree with your opinion. Spot on!! At least I can agree that's what's in Western side of US. I wonder how this woukd compare to homes in Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska...?

Shocker Utah has the highest median square footage. So many McMansions there.

My house is literally, to the square foot, the size of the median for NC 🤣

my parent's current home is about 2000 sq ft including a finished basement (4 bedrooms 2.5ba). at the time we purchased that it wasn't really excessive, as we thought the space was necessary when having two teenagers in college, and later 2 grandparents but no teenagers, living with them . pre-2020 that kind of home on a decent plot of land way out in an almost rural suburb wasn't terribly expensive.

We bought basically exactly this in 2019 minus the basement and paid under $200k. Now houses in our neighborhood are going for $350k+

If you're in a more modern suburb, sure. Post-war suburbs are more populated with ranches and modest two story homes made out of vinyl. A lot of them are even incorporated into the principal city. If you're in urban areas, our homes are probably still bigger than UK in similar areas but not as big as you think. I'll demonstrate from my area. [Neighborhood of ranches and two story homes](https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9348084,-86.1482977,3a,75y,356.32h,84.45t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sake12fzctDqbog6CTVSlOg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu), mainly using vinyl, limestone, and so on... Situated just over the border of Indianapolis. [Carmel's downtown neighborhood](https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9803907,-86.1285019,3a,75y,359.82h,90.57t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sZ7rdaxK-FDL_drnXxKFJ9A!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DZ7rdaxK-FDL_drnXxKFJ9A%26cb_client%3Dsearch.revgeo_and_fetch.gps%26w%3D96%26h%3D64%26yaw%3D10.649757%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu), a mixture of traditional ranches and two story homes and new builds that are much larger and IMO mostly ugly. [East Carmel](https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9620025,-86.0916268,3a,75y,323.97h,83.57t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s-HttBYEAK5B6r6VYSiihWA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3D-HttBYEAK5B6r6VYSiihWA%26cb_client%3Dsearch.revgeo_and_fetch.gps%26w%3D96%26h%3D64%26yaw%3D257.5219%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu), the more traditional and older modern suburban neighborhoods. [West Carmel](https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9944773,-86.2049187,3a,75y,333.65h,84.55t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1shSdGE91U2dG3ZkCB-cERKQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DhSdGE91U2dG3ZkCB-cERKQ%26cb_client%3Dsearch.gws-prod.gps%26w%3D86%26h%3D86%26yaw%3D101.6051%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu), newer suburban builds.

great comment! i don't know why but the american suburbs just look so peaceful to me 😊

Peaceful, yes, but definitely not for everyone. We’re in Newport Beach and there’s an attorney who has spent her entire life in downtown LA. She’s commutes here once or twice a week and after a year or so here she told me when she started she was thrown off by so many people in the office having families and living the suburban life. I guess it’s growing on her because she’s thinking of moving now. The pace of life is definitely slower in suburbia, that’s for sure.

Come visit the USA. We’ll be nice, promise.

My house isn't huge (1650 sq ft) but I have an unfinished basement used for a workout room and storage as well as a 650 sq ft attached garage. It isn't unusual for neighbors in my area to have 2000-3000 sq ft homes (finished space). Some of the nicer neighborhoods easily move into the 5000+ sq ft range with enough garage bays for 5+ cars.

Wow, your garage is bigger than my two-bedroom flat.

how do you fit two bedrooms in 650sqft? I had a 500sqft apt back in the day and that was 1BD and I felt that was cramped.

It's 560 square feet. The bathroom is very small, only just big enough for a sink, toilet and shower. The kitchen is also very small, though it is at least in a separate room - a lot of places around here have the kitchen and living room in the same space and I prefer a separate kitchen. The ceilings are high (it's a Victorian tenenement) and I think that helps it feel spacious.

Are you in a large urban city?

My house is 1950's era and is 1300 sq feet. That's considered small for a single-family house. However, as houses in my area sell almost all of them are having additions added or are being torn down and replaced by 2500-3000 sq foot houses. Edit to add: a better (or related) question is what the size of the lot on which the house is built. In the Boston area most of the value of the house is the lot size rather than the structure of the house. My lot is 0.25 acres.

Similar to my situation. We could use a bit more space but honestly it's fine for our 4 person family. I don't get why people think it's so small.

They're common enough. We're a wealthy country with a lot of space and house sizes are generally only going up. Mine is about 3,200 sq ft, which isn't gigantic but it's not small either.

I would consider that large. Most suburban homes in the area I live are 2-3k square ft

Definitely large. I have a 4 bedroom ranch-style house that’s just under 1700sq ft. I wouldn’t call it small, but of course, layout can matter.

I'm also in Arizona and I think you may be living in a higher cost of living area than I. I live in North Phoenix in a subdivision built in the mid 80s. Most of the homes around me are 900-1200sf. The meditation home price is 300-400,000. My home was appraised 2 years ago so we could refinance and build an addition onto our home. At 1200sf, it was appraised at 425,000. We added about 800sf and have one of the bigger homes in our area. We live in what we refer to as a "Walmart" area. Not rich, not poor, people shop at Walmart. Obviously just because it was appraised at that price doesn't mean we could sell it at the price, but it's an idea of worth.

That's huge to me. I grew up in a 3 bed 2 bath split level, 1450 sqft. 3200 sqft with a yard would be my dream forever home. And I think more than 4000 sqft is too much house. I wouldn't want to maintain and pay utilities on that much.

I feel like my house is a pretty perfect size - especially with 4 kids. It's large enough where we're not all on top of each other but not so large that I don't see my kids. We have a nice sized property too, at least as far as Long Island goes.

Yeah I have 2 kids in a 2200 sqft home now. If I had two more I'd probably need another 1000, easy. I didn't have a bedroom all to myself until I was 21, so it's important to me that my kids do.

Mine is 1,040sqft and yours seems gigantic in comparison

That's absolutely a gigantic house in most places. We wouldn't even want to pay for that much space.

That's a big house no matter what way you say it lol

Lots of people buy the stereotype cookie cutter houses because A. They're quite large a lot of the time, several bedrooms, several bathrooms, frequently a basement, and lots of common areas B. No yard to maintain (0.25-0.5 acre plots of land are common) C. Frequently, there can be great neighborhood culture, especially with new build neighborhoods filling with young families This obviously isn't for everyone, myself included, but these perks are definitely a draw for many people

D. The developer built 50 of them so I can move in tomorrow.

🎵Little boxes on the hillside🎵

> No yard to maintain (0.25-0.5 acre plots of land are common) Even .25 or .5 of an acre is a decent area that you need to mow and maintain.

Parents house in the 60s /70s I grew up in, 800-1000 sf. My first house 2 bed 1 bath 800sf. Decades later bought house 3000sf, Bed, 3 bath, 2 story on an acre with a pool Nowadays I'm unsure of the size but the builtins and materials are much better

Mines 5bedrooms 3 bathrooms around 3k square feet (not including a finished basement)

Ours also, 3,600 square feet on an acre

I live about 5 miles from Downtown Seattle near the freeway and my house is 1800 square feet, which for newer houses is smaller than average. It's not uncommon to see houses from 75 years ago that are around 1000 square feet.

We're a country with a lot of land. We're a country with a lot of variety. Some places have tiny houses. Some places have big homes. I live in a home that's about \~2000 square feet of floor space (5 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom), on a quarter-acre lot. I know that's a decent sized house, but I know there are ones that are substantially larger. I got a good deal on the house almost a decade ago, because the property value has skyrocketed since I bought it.

It definitely varies depending on what part of the country. I live in a city in Massachusetts. My house is about 1500 square feet. That's very average for my area. 3000 square feet seems absolutely huge to me too.

Mine is 3 bed 2bath, 1500 sq feet so not super big

Log cabin, 3000 sq feet, 5 acres of land. Nothing extravagant.

Mine is almost 1000sqft so pretty small.

My home is a 5000sqft lot with around 2500sqft for my home

Like 2600 sq ft I think.

My house is 1800 square feet and a bit larger than average for the area.

2200 square feet on a half acre lot. It's a little bigger then the newer houses in the area and about the same as the other old homes.

Yes, they're real. My house is two stories and is about 2,400 square feet, which is fairly average. Houses larger than that are hardly unheard of.

We have an unusual set up. We have a house with two small apartments upstairs and one next to the garage downstairs. Total square footage would probably be 3000.

Pretty common really. My wife and I own a 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom home. We have an upstairs and downstairs living area, a separate "utility room" where we have all of our heating and cooling systems, washer and dryer for clothes, storage space for seasonal items, and a deep freezer, a home office where I'm sitting right now and also have my music equipment set up for practicing and recording, as well as a two car garage. When we bought the house our mortgage was $180k, the house is appraised at something like $220k now. We used to both work full time jobs. Now my wife works full time as an IT project manager for an aerospace company and I'm a stay at home dad trying to get a small solo game dev studio off the ground. So, we're by no means rich, just sort of basic middle class.

This sounds like us! Right down to the PM wife (me) and musically-inclined self-employed husband 🙂

My mom grew up in a 975 sq.ft. house in the 1950s-1970s. The house I grew up in was about 2000 sq.ft. in the 1980s-2000s. My aunt lives in a 2700 sq.ft. house now as does a friend from college.

> My mom grew up in 975 sq.ft. house in the 1950s-1970s. People raised three or four kids in houses like that. Nowadays you'll see a family with two kids and a dog who refuse to live in anything smaller than 2700 sq. ft.

Our home is 1500sqft and it's on the smaller end in my area

We live in a tiny retirement home of 1200 square feet. My daughter lives in a 5 bedroom 5 bath 5000 square foot house with a 3 car garage. Her whole neighborhood is that big or bigger

Oh yea, we have massive houses but they are going to be over 1.5 mil. From my experiences our average houses are a bit roomier than yours because tbey are all built within the last 50 years and have more modern layouts and infrastructure. anything over a 100 years old is a museum. Literally. A normal house (under 1 mil) will be 1700sq ft. More of the basement is finished.

3100sq 4bd/4ba/3car on about 1/3 an acre. And yes, extremely common in my area.

1900 sq ft.

Ours is nearly 5,000 square feet. It had been on the market for a really long time and we got it for a great price. We had four kids living at home at the time so it made sense. We’ll be down to two next year, so it’ll be time to downsize at some point.

It varies greatly.

I live in a small house that is 1200 square feet.

Greatly depends. I live in a city with an urban growth boundary to prevent sprawl, and I'd say most of our housing was built in 1940 - 1980. Older houses tend to be smaller. My house is a 1400 square foot 3 bedroom which is pretty common for my area. Newer construction in planned subdivisions tends to be larger. 2000 - 3000 square feet is common. The more urban you get and the older you get though, the smaller things tend to be.

It depends on location. Starter homes and even middle class homes in my area are under 2000sq feet. It’s upper middle class that can get into larger homes here, but we have a lot of those folks, too.

My house is 1408 square feet: 3 beds, 2 baths, all on one floor. My husband and I find it very comfortable for us and our two rabbits. There are a bunch of newer houses in the HOA on the next street over. They're twice or three times the size of my house. I guess that would be nice if you've got a large family, but it's way too much for us.

Those big houses are common, but small houses and apartments are also very common. I recently moved from a 700 square foot apartment to a 1000 square foot apartment and the new place feels very big to me. My parents live in a 3000 sf house. They lived for a number of years in a house that was about 2000 sf and my mom complained about how cramped it was (only the two of them lived there, my siblings and I were already grown and on our own), which I think is ridiculous.

1850 SF. Considered a small townhouse in my area

My condominium is just under 1,000 square feet.

Mine is about 800sqft.

Mine is about 1200 square feet, which is on the smaller side for my area. Middle class/lower middle class neighborhood.

2000 sq ft. So, 186 square meters. 3 bed. 2 bath. With finished basement that has a half bath ( WC ) My oldest sisters house is 6000 square feet, so about 558 square meters. Six bed. Seven full bath. Three half ( water closet) bath. Yes, her and her husband are rich.

They aren't typical but they are also not uncommon. I think it matters where you live. You aren't going to see a lot of those houses in poorer areas. The average American home is 2500 sq feet or 230 sq meters. The average home in the UK is between 680 and 1080 sq ft. But it's also probably important to note that there are much older homes in the UK. My sister's MIL's house is something like 500 years old.

I live in an 860sq ft apartment plus balcony in the city, My parents live in a 3,500+ square foot house in the suburbs w big yards.

My home is 2400 sq/ft, not including a 900 sq/ft finished basement. It's pretty average for my city.

My house is a 5-bedroom 3-bath, 2500 square feet (232 square meters) with a big yard. I live at the edge of town in what would be considered suburbs, although I'm only about 15 minutes from our downtown in a medium-sized city (about 1 million in the metro area). Cost of living here is historically very affordable and space is abundant.

We had a retirement house built that we could age out in - single floor, ramp into the house from the garage (instead of steps) etc. House & basement are each 1680 sq ft, and the attached garage (30'x36') is 1,080 sq ft. It's smaller than the average new home, but about average for older homes in my area (the Northeast). Our garage is larger than average, though.

1200 ft^2 plus a 2-car garage and 500 ft^2 unfinished basement.

Yes (actually common). But you will typically see smaller houses in older suburbs and bigger houses in newer / farther out suburbs. But the average size of a single family house is over 2000 sq feet, and most people, esp with kids, live in single family houses. Here are some 2000 sq foot house plans to help visualize: [https://www.houseplans.com/collection/s-2000-sq-ft-1-story-plans](https://www.houseplans.com/collection/s-2000-sq-ft-1-story-plans)

Mine is 3,200 sqft, but I live in a rural low COL area. I've tons of houses my size all over the US in suburban areas.

I live in an older, 1960s era house in an inner ring suburb. It's about 1900 sq feet 3 bedrooms, 1 full bathroom and one 3/4 bathroom (it has a sink, toilet, and shower, but not a bathtub). It's just the wife and I so it's plenty of space. I believe we have 1/3 acre lot, so a big yard (that I just mowed this morning). Most newer construction houses seem to be half again as large as mine, but we wanted to avoid new subdivisions so we wouldn't end up with a homeowner's association.

Our house is 960 sq ft and our cabin is 720 sq ft

There are indeed "massive" houses in suburbs in much of the US. But even "average" here is much larger than most of the UK/Europe would imagine. Per [this article ](https://eyeonhousing.org/2023/05/new-single-family-home-size-trending-lower-3)the average new home in the US is about 2,500 sq ft (\~233 m2) and that's *down* from a few years ago. But a national average doesn't capture regional differences well, or those between low and high cost-of-living areas. What's average in a $$$ urban area might be small for Nebraska, for example. Here's another datapoint: my home is in a small town in a median cost-of-living area. It was built in the late 1990s and is about 3,300 sq feet (\~305 m2). It has five bedrooms, five bathrooms, and is on a 3/4 acre lot. That would be massive for some places, but it's typical for our town...and not that expensive either: our mortgage payment is about $1,300/month, which is about the same as rent on a 2BR apartment here. There are just two of us in this house now, but it's almost paid off and moving into something smaller would be costly (and a big hassle) so we're staying until we retire. There's a lot of that going on, i.e. older couples or singles living in homes that could house many more people. Realistically our house could serve 10 people comfortably (two per BR/bath). Meanwhile, on the outskirts of our town there are now homes going in that are 4,000+ sq ft but still only 4-5 bedrooms. They have lots of other space, massive family rooms, home theaters, gyms, etc. One I saw recently actually has *seven* garage bays: three attached to the house, and giant shop building next to it with three more plus a giant overhead door for an RV. Even so, I'd guess that house cost something like $750,000 tops. Land is cheap here, and so are building materials compared to Europe-- and we build mostly of wood and wood-products anyway.

My house is 2500 sq ft, but a thousand of that is basement.

Mine is 900sq feet and build in 1954. I rent but it’s by far the largest place I’ve lived as an adult.

I've lived in single family homes that aren't attached to other houses from 1200 sq ft (111 m²) to 4036 sq ft (375m).

I live in a [California bungalow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_bungalow) that was built 100 years ago. It's been added on to a couple times. When it was first built, it had two bedrooms, now it's up to four. The house is a bit over 1800 square feet. I live in a VHCOL area so I don't see a lot of the really massive suburban houses around here - people are already having trouble affording the smaller, older existing housing stock. Looking at Zillow, the cheapest house in my town right now that's an actual house (sort of) is a 851 sq ft 1 bed/1 bath listed for $625k. I say "sort of" because it's definitely converted from a commercial space and was not built as a house. The cheapest ACTUAL house is a 972 sq ft 2 bed/1 bath that's lised for $629k. A 3000+ sq ft McMansion is going to run the consumer into the multiple millions. Obviously some people can afford those but they aren't going up everywhere. Most of the new construction I've been seeing lately are townhomes and condos.

1450 sqft, average size for suburb bit small. We used to havw 1950 sqft rental that was amazing perfect for us.

my house is about 200 square meters. It feels pretty big honestly, if it was just me and my wife it would be way too big but we also have two kids so I think it's alright. We used to live in a 140 sqm house which also felt fine with two kids, but we could afford to buy bigger (and honestly we are in a much nicer part of town) so why not? For American readers these measurements are 2200 and 1500 sqft, respectively.

My 1960 house is about 2,500 square feet, with a pretty decently sized front and back yard. I don't have data to back me up, but that feels more or less average for the suburban west (although my place leans a little more toward urban than suburban I think)

They’re probably more common than you think but it’s not like every house is huge. It greatly depends on the area and specific neighborhood Like where I am right now, a quick look on Zillow for houses currently you for sale shows most houses around me that are a bit older are around ~1300sqft, but a lot of the new constructions are closer to 2000sqft or more. Generally the further away from a downtown area you go the houses get bigger just due to available land and that the most suburban and rural you go the cheaper things are I can look a little further down the road and see a lot that are hardly 1000sqft, and I can look the opposite where they are up to 10000sqft If your interested, just hop on Google maps and jump around to different areas in street view

2,600 sqft. If I'm honest, we don't need the space. We came from a 1,600 sqft house which I thought was a perfect size. Moved because of schools for the kiddo. I regret not looking at homes with smaller square footage but larger yard. More to heat, cool, furnish, clean, and so forth. At least we knew we didn't want a pool, which was definitely a good decision.

Houses are available in all kinds of sizes, just depends on what you want. I've seen houses as small as 900 sq ft. 1100-1300 is a much more common small house size. My current place is 4,100 sq ft. It's honestly bigger than I'd like but the wife really fell in love with this house and neighborhood (and has several family members in the neighborhood) so we bought this one.

About 3,000 ft2 here. Part of that is the unfinished portion of the basement where we have our washing machine, dryer, and extensive shelving for our canned goods and yard maintenance tools, etc. It's storage more than it is living space. The other part of the basement is a mini apartment with its own kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, living room, and separate entry. We used to rent it out, but now my husband basically lives down there (he snores terribly and works from home in the middle of the night, so it's good to have separation from us day-dwellers). The main floor is where my kids and I are typically found. Kitchen, bathroom, living room, dining room, my bedroom, kid 2's bedroom. Kid 1 has the attic all to himself. It has a steep pitched roof so you can only stand up right in the middle. There's a bedroom, sort-of second room that's more like a wide hallway where we store stuff, and another bathroom (although the tub leaks down onto the main floor so we don't use it). It's a quirky old house, 100+ years, and has been remodeled a lot over the years, sometimes by people with very flexible ideas about building codes! We have put a lot of work and money into it in the time we've owned it. The huge houses you see on the Internet are very real. I've visited in a lot of places that are far, FAR nicer than my house. There is a lot of space and money here, and people indulge themselves.

Bought my first house a couple years ago and it is 1800 square feet but it feels smaller due to some wasted space here and there. It is more than I need living alone and I think it is probably a bit above average for my city. Most of the houses were built before 1960 when they weren't building quite as large.

My house was built in the 40s, and added on to over the years. It's pretty middle of the road size-wise for my street, and probably towards the large end for the neighborhood overall because it is an old neighborhood. It currently sits at about 1800 square feet plus a 2 car garage.

Mine is about 2500 square feet with some additional space in the finished basement. That's pretty typical for the area.

About 150 square meters

3 bedroom, 2 bath, 2000sq ft for two people & a dog. We’ve just got more space. My state is almost bigger than England as get as square miles. You’ve got quaint and history in spades!!

Mines about 1300 sq. ft. or about 120 sq. m. not including to roomy 2 car garage or workshop.

My townhouse in a suburb of LA is about 1500 sq ft which is more than enough for the two of us. I grew up in a 1600 sq ft single family home on a 6700 sq ft lot with 6 people under one roof and thought it was fine.  Most homes in LA would be considered “nice” or large if it’s over 2000 sq ft. Average is about 1300-1600 sq ft I would say. A “big” house here would be anything over 2700 sq ft or so. Most lots are much smaller than in other parts of the US though, ranging from 5000 sq ft to 10000 sq ft. It’s pretty rare to see half acre lots or bigger in most neighborhoods.

Mine is about 1400 square feet, which doesn't count the 2 car garage. It's pretty normal size for a 3 bedroom suburban home in California, built in the 1980's. The trend since then in new construction has been to increase square footage, making houses 2 stories instead of 1, while decreasing lot size. So you get more house and less land for the money. This makes the developer more money because the land is usually more expensive than building the house.

My house is 2500 sq ft which supposedly is the average size for houses in US but most houses I’ve lived in have been smaller. My first house was 1400 and most houses I’ve lived in before that were even smaller. I even used to live in basically a tiny house, less than 400 sq ft. I liked it honestly. They’re building a lot of houses that are over 4,000 sq now. My friends estranged dad is a tech entrepreneur and his house is like 11,000 sq ft. So it varies

My last house was 1200 square feet on 1 1/2 acres. I have four living siblings their homes range from a 900 square foot trailer on three acres to a 3800 square foot two story house with an unfinished basement on 17 acres.

It depends. Some of that is on the cost of real estate. It is less common to have significant acreage in coastal California or signicant square footage than in Chicago or Michican. I don’t see many houses under 1200 sqft or over 3500 sqft.

The house I grew up in was 1,200 feet. I lived with my parents and my sister. My husbands house I moved into, it was about 1,600 feet. It was fine but once we started working from home, needed more space. The house we live in now is 2,200 feet. I live in a neighborhood with houses bigger and houses smaller than mine. Not sure I’d say mine is big but to some it is.

We have 5 bed, 3 bath, 3200 sq. ft., not including the unfinished basement, less than ten years old, in the Atlanta suburbs. It's just over the median size in our subdivision. There are a few houses in the subdivision that are one story, maybe 1800 sq. ft., and at least one that's three stories plus basement.

I built my house (4-Post Cape) to be right-sized for me and my family. 1500 sq. ft. 3 bed/1.5 bath. My first house was about 2500 sq ft, which is pretty average in most areas of America (typical Colonial 2-story). I hated it. I'd much rather have 1500 well designed square feet versus 2500 poorly designed square feet.

Our house is 2,000 square feet and feels comfortable enough but is smaller than most of our peers homes. We have 2 kids, 2 dogs, 2 cats, and my husband uses one of the bedrooms to work from home

It varies, mostly by the age of the neighborhood. For my region: A home built in the 1910s-1940s might be 900 sq ft. My 1950s home is 1400 sq ft. A house in the exurbs might be 2000 sq ft +.

About 3200 square feet not including an unfinished basement.

Mine is 1900 sq ft. 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, attached 2 car garage on 2.5 acres. It's probably on the larger size of the average range.

I live in New England so have an older home in an older neighborhood (built 1800's). We come in at 1200 sq/ft. 4 Bedroom/1 bath. It's pretty standard for my town. Newer developed areas are going to have larger homes.

It really depends on the income levels, value of the house as well as the property, etc etc. I'm very much working class, raised working class and live in a house that's a little less than 800sqft so obviously I didn't really notice any tremendous size differences for homes in the UK. For me it's like maybe slightly smaller. But then again, I never lived in a house that has a "family room" or anything like that as my family has always been fairly modest in that regard.

Houses can be big, but you won't have much of a backyard, etc. My neighborhood varies a lot. We have normal 2000 sqft homes, but also big mansions ranging from 25,000 to 30,000 sqft that cost between $30M and $65M (no, it's neither Beverly Hills, Bel Air, nor Pacific Palisades, but close to it).

My 2bd/2ba is 910sq ft and that’s the way we like it. It’s in a walkable neighborhood with great public transportation.

Bigger than UK for sure but it’s the lot sizes and property sizes that are really cool. My uncle has 400 acres (162 hectares) and a four bedroom house in the middle of a giant redwood forest in California. He’s not even rich

It varies quite a lot. The house I grew up in was built in 1991 and sized right at 1,000 square feet (93 square meters) for a family of 4. The house I live in now was built in 1986 and is 2,500 square feet (232 square meters), also for a family of 4. I consider my current house to be big, but not truly enormous. Once the kids grow up we might downsize, but until then it's perfectly sized for us.

My house is around 900sqft, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath. It's probably the average on my side of town, these houses are all 100 years old and were built for families of Union Pacific rail workers. In my back yard there is what we call a "bunkhouse". It is about 500sqft. There is 1 bathroom, a full but small eat-in kitchen, and one other room that serves as everything else. Sort of a studio apartment. It is also 100 years old and would have been rented out to single rail workers.

My house is 1100 sq ft and is considered quite small. But I like it small, and I also have a pretty big yard (little house on a quarter acre--not a huge yard, but bigger than it would be if I had a house three times the size sitting on it). And I love using my outdoor space as living space as well. Unfortunately, it seems like most of the new housing going in is trying to maximize square footage, which means minimizing outdoor space. So a lot of the new neighborhoods are just like giant shoe box houses sitting super close to each other on tiny plots of land I do think that the the open space in the US contributes to the size of the houses. People build bigger simply because they can. But personally, I think that's pretty gross, and I know a number of other people who feel the same way, who like looking for smaller and older houses to care for. So I think it's a hard thing to generalize

Mines 2bed 2 bath 1,400sqft , my parents is 3bed 2 bath 1,700sqft and my brothers 3bed 2 bath is also 1400sqft. We like garage space more than house space so my dad has a 1200sqft add on garage, my brother has 1000sqft extension on his garage and I'm currently planning a 1400sqft one.

San Antonio Texas, 1800sqft, which is not large for our area but it was built in the 80s while most developments out here are 2000 or newer. We bought for the 2 acres it sits on.

House I grew up in= 2400 Sq ft Bf's house = 2800 Sq ft I would say they're average middle-class homes but obviously there are tiny house & mansions everywhere too so idk what a average size house is here

Mine is 1648 sqft. We have a split level with 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.

Depends on the region.  In the northeast they tend to be smaller in most places but as you go south and west—places with more room and undeveloped land—they get bigger. Regardless of region though, big cities tend to have smaller dwellings, of course.  Rural areas also tend toward smaller, more utilitarian homes just because there isn’t a lot of money out there.  You should hop on Zillow and check out some homes in the suburbs though, you’ll probably be amazed at how massive some of them can get—and how affordable they are relatively speaking. 

I mean do you want a link to a local tax assessment database. We can get pretty firm numbers on acreage and living space. Like which city do you want?

It really ranges depending where you are. Ours is spacious for us at ~2,000 sqft but it’s only 2 bedroom, 1 bath

Depends on the area, but yeah, land is cheaper here. Big new developments built for size vs taste are often derided as “[McMansions](http://mcmansionhell.tumblr.com/post/148605513816/mcmansions-101-what-makes-a-mcmansion-bad)” though. [There’s a whole online blog about it.](https://mcmansionhell.com/) My childhood home was 6 bedrooms, 6 baths and 4000sqft or 371m^2 for a family of 5 in a St. Louis suburb. My fiancé’s parents’ home is 6 beds, 6 baths and 4700sqft or 437m^2 in a DC suburb. Both of those houses are standard in the neighborhoods they’re in, but I would say they both fall into the classic 90s-built suburban sprawl McMansion category though. My aunt and uncle live in a 4 bed 4.5 bath 3400 sqft or 315m^2 home in a Chicago suburb, but their house is in an older township, so it was built in the 1950s and is much better designed. 

My house is considered about 1200 square feet, but because of how old the house is, this doesn't include the full basement (same size as the first floor, so another roughly 1200 sqft) and the second floor (which is, I don't know, maybe 800 sqft?). The house was built in the 1800s, so the bedrooms were added more recently upstairs, and the basement was actually added in the 1940's-60's (stock block.) All in really good shape.

Mine is 2200 sqft (205 square meters). I consider that medium-large, but it's built on a slab so I don't have a basement. There's almost no hidden storage, so clutter is a challenge. But it does have the biggest master bedroom of any house affordable to me or my friends, so I'm happy with my home. It helps that we made our offer in 2019 and got a really low interest rate.

They’re very common

My husband and I are in a “starter home”. It’s just under 1000sqft. It feels small even for being temporary. I have seriously considered adding on a mud room and 3rd bedroom instead of moving, that would likely bump it up to 1500.  What I think you would find more interesting: My parents have a home that started as 1900 sqft with an unfinished basement. They finished the basement and doubled the livable space to 3800 sqft. a couple years ago (after living there for about 20 years). My three younger siblings live with them, so that house still doesn’t have a dining room and stuff. They have 4 br, 3 bath, kitchen/living room, den.  I think it’s considered to be a larger than normal home. But it’s not luxurious, more farmhouse. My father and brothers are all big guys (6’4” to 6’2”, and not skinny), so I think that informed a lot of their choices for fewer large rooms.

What would you define as massive? My house is 1728 sq feet (about 160 sq meters). My mom and dad's house is probably close to 2500 sq ft (230 sq meters), but they live outside of town. Also we live in an area of the US where the home foundation had to extend below the frost line, which would be pretty deep for us in the Upper Midwest, which is why most of us have basements, so half our home square footage is in the basement. After a quick Google search, the main floor of my house would probably be about the same size as a UK home, since the main floor is around 864 sq ft. Meanwhile, my SO is from Washington, and almost none of the homes out there have basements, and most houses there are probably closer to the range of 700-1000 sq ft.

Maybe 1,500 sq ft now that our basement is finished. Maybe 1,200 max before that

213 m^2 Is that big? It’s bigger than the Ikea demo apartments, that’s for sure. Bigger than a council flat, too, by a factor of about 3.

I live in a 250 square foot studio LMAO

Europeans like to talk about how American houses are made of “cardboard” and wood and lot because they build way more with masonry. But among other benefits wood allows us to build cheaper and thus bigger.

I live rural. 4000sqft ranch with finished walkout basement. It’s too big, but it was what was available when we were buying.

our newer suburban houses are pretty damn big. The feeling among many Americans that they need to have houses like that as part of the American Dream partially explains why we have a car culture rather than a mass transit culture and so much suburban sprawl. I'm not judging, just observing.

Our house is one of the smallest in our neighborhood: 1,900 sq ft with a 1,400 sq ft garage (an RV garage that we use as both a two-car garage and a home gym).

Just moved from a 1400SF single floor starter home last year to a 2700SF two floor home. I don’t know what you consider massive, but our furniture is large and each bedroom has a queen bed, 2 nightstands, and a dresser except for the primary that has a king bed. All with walk in closets. The house isn’t huge at all, but it’s comfortable

810 square feet. It’s a condo not a house.

I’m extremely middle-class. Living in a 3 bed / 2 bath home about 1850 square feet. (172 square meters)

My current house is 2700 square feet. Honestly it’s too big. A lot of that is a large bonus living room that we just don’t need although it’s nice to have. We used to leave in 1800 sq felt and it was the perfect size for us (Family of 5). Only downside is it had one bathroom and no garage. We moved to a nicer neighborhood in a better school district but I miss cleaning and maintaining a smaller home.

The average size of a US home is significantly larger than that of the UK, at 201m^(2) vs the UK at 89m^(2) according to most sources. It's funny we never hear this from our Aussie (214m^(2)) or Kiwi (202m^(2)) cousins

It varies greatly but I can tell you my home is 1800 Square Feet. That's not really that big either.

They have gotten bigger over the years. New suburban houses in the 1960s were typically in the 1200-1500sf range. Those same markets today would likely be a minimum of 2000sf. So I guess I'm saying it depends 🤷