Mobile homes are shown in Honey Brook, Chester County, in 2020. A Philadelphia Fed report found that about half of Pennsylvania's manufactured home communities are in urban areas, particularly in suburbs outside midsize and large cities. In the five-county Philadelphia area, Chester County has the most at 77 communities.
Trends in lot vacancy suggest that demand for these homes is strongest “on the outskirts of larger urban areas, where they may represent a more attainable option for lower-income home buyers,” according to the report, which looked at the subset of manufactured housing communities in which homeowners rent land.
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