Dive Brief:
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Boulder, CO, has the most toilets per capita—101.7 per 100 residents, an analysis by the brokerage firm Redfin reveals.
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Washington, DC, missed being the toilet capital by just a few seats per citizen, weighing in with 98.2 toilets per 100 residents. Rounding out Redfin’s Top 5 list of toilet-rich housing markets are Raleigh/Durham, NC; Tucson, AZ; and Phoenix.
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Communities with fewer bathrooms per home tend to have large inventories of older houses or small condos, the report says.
Dive Insight:
Builders who are suffering from sluggish home sales might want to add more bathrooms to their floor plans: Buyers who opt for new homes could be shying away from existing dwellings because they don’t have enough toilets, according to the brokerage firm Redfin.
"For sellers, if everyone around you [has] five bathrooms and you don't, you're going to have to price your home accordingly," says Leslie White of Redfin. "For buyers, if you find an older row house that has just one bathroom and you can tolerate that, you'll have a lot less competition to buy it."