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What percentage of American adults have fans to cool their home?

47.4% of American adults have fans to cool their home - about 47 in every 100, or 5 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 COOL_FANS (“Which of the following cooling devices do you have in your home? Select all that apply.”), counting responses 1=Selected, as a share of adults who answered (7.8% 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 housing2. Census labels these estimates experimental; unweighted n = 11,989.

Population

U.S. adults aged 18 and over

Year

2026

95% confidence interval

45% to 49.8% (derived from the published standard error)

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