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What percentage of American adults couldn't always keep their home at a safe temperature on hot days this summer?

17.3% of American adults couldn't always keep their home at a safe temperature on hot days this summer - about 17 in every 100, or 2 in 10. That is the figure published by the Household Pulse Survey for 2026.

Where this number comes from

Survey

Household Pulse Survey

What it measured

HTOPS HPS 2607 (collected July 15 – August 3, 2026), item TEMP_SAFE (“This summer, have you been able to keep your home at a safe and healthy temperature on hot days?”), counting responses 2=Sometimes, 3=No, as a share of adults who answered (7.9% did not). Computed from the Census Bureau's public-use microdata with the person weight PWEIGHT; the standard error uses its 80 successive-difference replicate weights (4/80 · Σ of squared deviations). The counts and standard errors behind it reproduce the published table housing3. Census labels these estimates experimental; unweighted n = 11,976.

Population

U.S. adults aged 18 and over

Year

2026

95% confidence interval

14.96% to 19.64% (derived from the published standard error)

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