Cohousing-L Mailing List: Community Size: Ratios of Adults to Units

[Sharon Villines (sharonvillines]

Contributions have ended so this is what we have.  Thanks to everyone who
has stopped to count and to figure out ratios.

The original question was what is the better indicator of the size of a
cohousing community -- the number of adults who affect decisions or the
number of units. Units is usually used but it seems not to be the operative
number or even related directly to the operative number.

I would consider the operative number to be how many people have to get on
board with a decision and how many are there to do the work.

Adults per Household Sorted by Number of Units

_ratio_   Adults:Units

_1.36_ 19:14 -- Monterey, Minneapolis, MN
_2.17_ 37:17 -- N Street, Davis, CA
_1.65_ 28:17 -- Village Cohousing, Madison WI
_3.54_ 78:22 -- Sharingwood, ??? Is this number right?
_1.67_ 40:24 -- Rosewind, Port Townsend, WA
_1.83_ 44:24 -- New View, Acton MA
_1.32_ 33:25 -- Wasatch Commons, Salt Lake City, UT
_1.40_ 35:25 -- Southside Park, Sacramento, CA
_1.59_ 43:27 -- Pathways, Northampton, MA
_1.23_ 53:43 -- Takoma Village, DC


Adults per Household Sorted by Number of Adults

_ratio_ Adults:Units

_1.36_ 19:14 -- Monterey, Minneapolis, MN
_1.65_ 28:17 -- Village Cohousing, Madison WI
_1.32_ 33:25 -- Wasatch Commons, Salt Lake City, UT
_1.40_ 35:25 -- Southside Park, Sacramento, CA
_2.17_ 37:17 -- N Street, Davis, CA
_1.67_ 40:24 -- Rosewind, Port Townsend, WA
_1.59_ 43:27 -- Pathways, Northampton, MA
_1.83_ 44:24 -- New View, Acton MA
_1.23_ 53:43 -- Takoma Village, DC
_3.54_ 78:22 ??????-- Sharingwood, ???

Adults per Household Sorted by Ratio of Adults to Units

_ratio_ Adults:Units

_1.23_ 53:43 -- Takoma Village, DC
_1.32_ 33:25 -- Wasatch Commons, Salt Lake City, UT
_1.36_ 19:14 -- Monterey, Minneapolis, MN
_1.40_ 35:25 -- Southside Park, Sacramento, CA
_1.59_ 43:27 -- Pathways, Northampton, MA
_1.65_ 28:17 -- Village Cohousing, Madison WI
_1.67_ 40:24 -- Rosewind, Port Townsend, WA
_1.83_ 44:24 -- New View, Acton MA
_2.17_ 37:17 -- N Street, Davis, CA
_3.54_ 78:22 ??????-- Sharingwood, ???

 While Takoma Village has 43 units, it only has 53 adults to do the work and
make decisions. At N Street, there are only 17 units but 37 adults who need
to agree to decisions.

And sorting by ratios (even though one lister pointed out that ratios at
small numbers mean less if anything), one would see entirely different order
of size.


Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org


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