The Big Get Bigger

The average size of a new home completed in 2011 was 2,480 square feet, up from 2,392 square feet in 2010, a new census report shows. In 1973, the earliest year represented in the report, the average new home just had 1,660 square feet. That number increased steadily, to 2,521 in 2007, then had fallen each year until 2011.