You wouldn’t buy a haunted house. But would you buy a smart home?
In both places, things move about by themselves. Everything you say and do is silently observed. Lights flick on and off without you even needing to clap.
Until now, the digital ghosts of the average smart home have been so busy spooking each other that they’ve not achieved much for their human roomies. Domestic smart devices have literally been on their own wavelength, unable to coordinate due to conflicting connectivity standards. Your fridge may want to talk to your doorbell, but it struggles to get a direct line.
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Pre-Fitted Smart Homes
But don’t let this spook you. Leading smart home players, including Amazon, Google Nest, and Samsung, are co-operating to develop ‘Matter,’ a standard to standardize all standards. Developments like Matter and our rekindled love for cozying-in post-pandemic have boosted the desirability of buying a ready-fitted smart home. North America is leading the way, and the market is forecast to grow from $84.5 billion to $138.9 billion by 2026.
So, American Home Shield decided to find where all the pre-fitted smart homes are. We analyzed Zillow listings for every American state and the 100 most populous cities to reveal which places have the most smart homes for sale, and which have the highest density of smart homes on the market.
Here are the states with the most smart home listings.
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Alaska
Number of smart home listings: 8
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Vermont
Number of smart home listings: 12
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South Dakota
Number of smart home listings: 14
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Rhode Island
Number of smart home listings: 15
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Maine
Number of smart home listings: 15
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Montana
Number of smart home listings: 22
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New Hampshire
Number of smart home listings: 23
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Wyoming
Number of smart home listings: 24
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West Virginia
Number of smart home listings: 31
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Arizona
Number of smart home listings: 40
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North Dakota
Number of smart home listings: 43
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New Mexico
Number of smart home listings: 53
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Kansas
Number of smart home listings: 54
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Delaware
Number of smart home listings: 56
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Nebraska
Number of smart home listings: 69
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Missouri
Number of smart home listings: 89
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Connecticut
Number of smart home listings: 92
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Hawaii
Number of smart home listings: 96
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Massachusetts
Number of smart home listings: 125
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Oregon
Number of smart home listings: 130
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Mississippi
Number of smart home listings: 139
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Utah
Number of smart home listings: 152
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Minnesota
Number of smart home listings: 158
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Kentucky
Number of smart home listings: 172
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Idaho
Number of smart home listings: 173
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Oklahoma
Number of smart home listings: 193
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Tennessee
Number of smart home listings: 199
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Maryland
Number of smart home listings: 201
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Nevada
Number of smart home listings: 220
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Washington
Number of smart home listings: 275
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Virginia
Number of smart home listings: 279
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Pennsylvania
Number of smart home listings: 289
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Michigan
Number of smart home listings: 322
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Colorado
Number of smart home listings: 327
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New Jersey
Number of smart home listings: 328
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Ohio
Number of smart home listings: 440
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Alabama
Number of smart home listings: 535
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Georgia
Number of smart home listings: 637
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Indiana
Number of smart home listings: 655
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Louisiana
Number of smart home listings: 716
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Wisconsin
Number of smart home listings: 734
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Arizona
Number of smart home listings: 736
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Illinois
Number of smart home listings: 844
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New York
Number of smart home listings: 856
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Iowa
Number of smart home listings: 1018
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California
Number of smart home listings: 1120
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North Carolina
Number of smart home listings: 1454
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South Carolina
Number of smart home listings: 1714
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Texas
Number of smart home listings: 2090
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Florida
Number of smart home listings: 2242
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Iowa is the State with the Most Smart Homes Per 1,000 Listings
Everyone knows boomers love gadgets. After all, this is the generation raised on The Jetsons. It turns out that retiring boomers are also happy to live in a gadget: there are 2,242 smart homes for sale in Florida, one of just six states to boast >1000 smart homes on the market.
One typical Florida property promises the following: Security Cameras, Network Video Recording, Whole Home Mesh Wi-Fi, SMART: Thermostat, Lighting System, Fans, Security System, Watering System, Locks, Night Lights, Timed Landscape lights, Networked Security Cameras.
Part of Florida’s good showing is because it has more listings in total than any other state. But the smartest state per 1,000 listings is Iowa. In fact, Iowa has more than twice the density of smart homes found in any other state except for South Carolina. Ames, Iowa, is the site of a prototypical smart home running on 10G broadband. It features “everything from home security technology to a holographic television and a little robotic dog.”
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Is Buying Smart the Smart Choice?
It costs upwards of $3k to smartify a new home, not accounting for the stress, so buying smart certainly has appeal. But buyers need to do the math before figuring out if a home is worth the premium. In particular, the security of a home’s network and its connectivity protocols can compromise the economic and use-value of a networked home.
From the opposite point of view, you can boost your own home’s value by fitting it with smart infrastructure before putting it on the market – as long as you know what you’re doing. Because no potential buyer wants to be ghosted by a smart toilet that 404’s them instead of flushing.
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Methodology
We built a list of the 100 most populous cities in the U.S. as well as all states.
We then used the keyword search function on Zillow‘s real estate listings database to record the total number of homes with “smart” in the description for the 100 cities and every U.S. state.
Using the search function, we found the number of listings that contained the word “smart” in the description. Having recorded the total number of normal listings and smart home listings in each region, we calculated the proportion of smart homes per 1,000 listings for every city and state.
We found no guidelines for using trademark symbols when mentioning the individual products or brands. Property remains that of the companies mentioned.
The data was collected in Dec 2021.
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