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 III. Land and Capital Resources and Their Utilization


 Nonfarm households.--The 362 nonfarm households consisted of 226

house-and-lot-units and 136 houses with 3 or more acres of land. These latter

nonfarm units are sometimes referred to as acreagee" or "acreage tracts."

 The 226 house-and-lot-units constituted approximately 31 percent of

total households. Among these households, the proportion of nonwhite families

was substantially higher than it was among households. Whereas 32 percent of

all families were nonwhite, 43 percent of the families occupying house-and-lot-

units were nonwhite. Considerable variation in the tenure status existed

between white and nonwhite families (Table 34). A majority of the house-and-

lot-units occupied by nonwhite families were provided either by employers or

others such as relatives. Ownership was more prevalent among the white fami-

lies as was rental of rural residences. Among the white families, 70 percent

either owned or rented their homes compared with 42 percent of the nonwhite

families,


TABIE 34.-Number and percentage distribution of nonfarm house-and-lot-units by
tenure status of family and race, 226 rural households, North and West Florida,
 1956


 Race

 Tenure status
 : White : Nonwhite


 : Number Percent Number Percent

 Owned 58 45.3 30 30.6
 Rented 32 25.0 11 11.2
 Provided by employer :15 11,7 33 33.7
 Provided by others 23 18.0 17 17.4
 Not ascertained .. 7 7.1

 Total 128 100.0 98 100.0
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