Texas Manufactured Home Shipments in April 2022

April Shipments

Manufactured home shipments to Texas retailers expanded in April to their highest seasonally-adjusted total since before the 2008 financial crisis. April had fewer production days than March, but shipments moved up a seasonally adjusted 3.3%.

The raw total of shipments came in +115 homes above the forecast.

The product mix remained close to the 50% mark, with multi-section shipments beating single-section shipments for the second month in a row.

Compared to one year ago shipments were up a solid 12.4%, riding a large expansion in single-section deliveries. The year-over-year gains for both section types were even slightly understated as 2021 had an additional day of production.

ShipmentsSinglesMultisTotal
Total for April: 877 909 1,786
Change from March (Raw %): -12.5% -11.5% -12%
Change from March (Raw Units): -125 -118 -243
Change from March (SA %): 2.3% 0% 3.3%
Change from April of 2021 (%): 21.5% 4.8% 12.4%
Change from April of 2021 (Units): 155 42 197

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April Production

Texas manufactured housing plant production maintained its elevated pace in April with the seasonally-adjusted total of homes ticking slightly higher than March’s series high. The total of 2,332 homes built for the month was +142 homes over the forecast.

The production share shipped out of state grew over last month, and the lack of product mix visibility into those units pulled the minimum floor number lower than would otherwise have been expected.

The increase in production was in line with the Texas Manufactured Housing Survey results from last month.

Texas Plant ProductionTotalShipped Out of TXMin Floors
Total for April: 2,332 608 3,214
Change from March (Raw %): -10% -2.7% -10.5%
Change from March (Raw Units): -258 -17 -378
Change from March (SA %): 0.1% NA -2.5%
Change from April of 2021 (%): 10.1% 2% 8.9%
Change from April of 2021 (Units): 214 12 263

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May Outlook

The forecasting models have May shipments at 1,716 (+/- 337) and Texas plant production at 2,202 (+/- 377) homes.

The Texas Manufactured Housing Survey results for May are not yet available, but based on April’s run rates, take the overs.

Annual Totals

With the inclusion of April’s totals manufactured home shipments to Texas retailers for the year are up 14.7% and Texas manufactured housing plant production is up 15.9%.

The forecast for annual Texas shipments moves up to 20,109 (+/- 2,296) and forecasted Texas plant production moves up to 26,354 (+/- 1,785).

ShipmentsSinglesMultisTotal
Total for 2022 YTD: 3,438 3,475 6,913
Change from 2021 (%): 25.2% 6% 14.7%
Change from 2021 (Units): 692 196 888
Texas Plant ProductionTotalShipped Out of TXMin Floors
Total for 2022 YTD: 9,041 2,350 12,407
Change from 2021 (%): 15.9% 13.6% 13.9%
Change from 2021 (Units): 1,238 282 1,510

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