An estimate on the number of Full Time Rvers?

Francesca Knowles wrote:

Bill.Satellite wrote:
As of today, there is one less full-timer. My job was just eliminated and yesterday I was told I was done!
I guess I will be living full-time in my RV for awhile while I try to pick up the pieces but I would no longer consider myself a full-timer. Just a guy living in an RV.

Isn't living in an RV the very definition of "fulltimer"?

I believe it is to some but living in an RV and not moving is about the same as buying a trailer or park model and parking it. The only thing living in an RV does is cost way too much money! I think you have to move, at least occasionally, to be considered a fulltimer. I would not even consider myself an RVer if I plan to park this thing. I'm just a guy who can't afford a house!

If you follow the Full Timers group on Facebook it seems that every other person in America is getting ready to fulltime. So many seem to mistakenly believe that living in an RV will solve all their personal, work, and financial issues. Hope they build more RV parks.

Bill.Satellite wrote:
As of today, there is one less full-timer. My job was just eliminated and yesterday I was told I was done!
I guess I will be living full-time in my RV for awhile while I try to pick up the pieces but I would no longer consider myself a full-timer. Just a guy living in an RV.

Sorry to hear that Bill. Hope you come up with something quickly.

Bill.Satellite wrote:
As of today, there is one less full-timer. My job was just eliminated and yesterday I was told I was done!
I guess I will be living full-time in my RV for awhile while I try to pick up the pieces but I would no longer consider myself a full-timer. Just a guy living in an RV.

Isn't living in an RV the very definition of "fulltimer"?

As of today, there is one less full-timer. My job was just eliminated and yesterday I was told I was done!
I guess I will be living full-time in my RV for awhile while I try to pick up the pieces but I would no longer consider myself a full-timer. Just a guy living in an RV.

You also need to add in the amount of people who live in RVs that do not consider themselves to be RVers and simply do not bother to join RV forums or clubs. Unless you refuse to count those people. I think a more accurate count could be derived from the campgrounds themselves. I visit a private campground near one of the NM oil fields. It stays packed with monthly oil field workers. So much that they are expanding the park. If you add in those people, I think the number of people who live fulltime in RVs is much higher than usually estimated. I also think that those people are who is driving the RV sales. My friends in the park near the oil fields says that these people will pull into the park with a smaller RV and after a couple of weeks or months, they are pulling that one out and pulling a new larger RV in but it's still the same people living in the site.

The estimates I've seen for US fulltime RV living is 200,000 - 250,000, depending on if you include folks who live in an RV but never move. If you break that total up between SD, TX, FL and "all others", I would guess the SD component is about 50,000. I know my SD mail service serves about 10,000 folks and its one of 4 major mail services in SD. Now that SD is requiring fulltimers to fill out the Fulltimer Affidavit at DL renewal, the state should have some accurate numbers once a complete 5 yr renewal period passes.

There is also a significant addition to that fulltimer total from our neighbors to the north.

There's obviously no way to know how many folks live in RVs but as to hazarding a guess, at least for the U.S.A. :

If one is wiling to begin from the presumption that nearly all fulltime RVers likely park their rigs on property rented from or otherwise belonging to others, the closest estimate might be derived from the U.S. Census Bureau's "other" category as to type of structure renters occupy.

That figure as of the last census was 206,000. Table 4 here. The term "other" probably includes such nonstandard housing as boats etc. but it seems likely that a majority of those folks would be using an RV of one kind or another.

Here is a link that will partially give you an answer.

http://sangeo-travels.blogspot.com/2011/04/how-many-people-live-full-time-in-rv.html