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HOUSING UNITS, 1970–1990, AND THE 2020 PROFILE
The 1990 comparative table carries the town's housing alongside its people, and the two series together date the plateau's building. CPH-2-16, Table 5 gives the town 681 housing units in 1970, 802 in 1980, and 808 in 1990 — the stock grew by a fifth across the two decades in which the population grew by less than three percent, which is the arithmetic of shrinking households, the same shift the 2020 profile shows completed: 747 households in 817 housing units for 2,096 people. The township's units run 950 in 1970, 1,075 in 1980, and 1,074 in 1990 — the farm country's stock flat across the last of those decades while the town's crept. The wartime building that housed the doubling is not in these tables — the series begins in 1970 — and its record is the Wars leg's, from the plant-era press; what the units series settles is that the modern town's housing is a postwar stock, enlarged modestly since, with its occupancy thinning as households shrank: more houses, held by about the same number of people, in smaller households. That is the plateau's physical form.