
- Air conditioning equipment is more common in single family homes (89%) than in housing units in apartment buildings (82%).
- 18 percent of households below the poverty line do not have any air conditioning equipment at all.
- About a third of households below the poverty line use room air conditioning compared to 15% of households with an income above $100,000.
- In contrast, about 75% of households with incomes above $100,000 use central air conditioning compared to just 44% of households below the poverty line.
via Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) – Analysis & Projections – U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).
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