Know RV or campers association...
...with strong environmental and public land protection voice? Camper numbers are now 42 million or 12% of the population. There are threats to public lands and wildlife that are integral part o...
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agesilaus wrote:
The 40+ million number cannot be RVers. The industry makes about 500,000 units a year (from RVIA) even if you assume that the average RV lasts 15 years that's only 7.5 million units in the US. I could not find an estimate of the total number of RV's in the US.
Some of those units, a lot of them probably, are permanently parked in RV/mobile home parks too and I don't call that camping.
My guess is something like 4 to 5 million RVers actively traveling in their units. I've seen estimates of 500,000 full timers.
As the link indicate, those are all campers.
I don't know the numbers for our subset of RVers but you may be right on the estimate. I just think we have more clout as we would be camping longer and got taxed for our RV, accessories, gas and equipment.
