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- One person households are more commonly found in the oldest housing; two person households in the newest. Blacks and Spanish-Americans occupied older housing much more frequently than other households. Husband-wife families, except among the elderly, tend to live in newer housing than other households. Elderly husband-wife households and primary individuals had the greatest tendency to live in the oldest housing. UNITS IN STRUCTURE The single family home is still the dominant housing type in Sant~ Ana and Orange County, but the proportion of multi-unit structures and mobile homesafe both inc- .reasing. In Santa Aha, single family houses represent 59% and mobile homes represent 6% of the housing stock in 1974. Single unit structures are primarily owner-occupied, but the percentage of renters increases as the age of the housing increases. Multi-unit housing is overwhelmingly renter-occupied, regardless of age. One and two person households are overrepresented among multi-unit housing and mobllehomes. Four or more per- son households are overrepresented among single units. Primary individuals and the elderly are much more common among mobilehome and multi-unit structure resid- ents than in single units. Primary individuals were especially dominant among the renters in the largest apartment structures. Mobile home owners had much lower incomes than other homeowners. Owneroccupants of units in multi-unit stru- ctures had higher incomes than mobilehome owners, but much lower incomes than single unit owners. Renters had similar income distributions regardless of the type of structure they occupied. KITCHEN FACILITIES Approximately 628 units lacked complete kitchen facilities in 1970. Another 27 units had access to kitchen facilities only through the living quarters of another household 00001 .!