Standard suburban detached-house above-grade bedroom count in the US since at least the 80s is 3br in normal neighborhoods, sometimes 4 in the more expensive on

Standard suburban detached-house above-grade bedroom count in the US since at least the 80s is 3br in normal neighborhoods, sometimes 4 in the more expensive ones. If for some reason you want a 2br house you're probably gonna have to look at neighborhoods 35+ years old, or attached (duplex, say) housing. Lots of the 3br houses in places where basements are the norm have been upgraded with a fourth, basement bedroom—sometimes "nonconforming" (no emergency exit window) especially if it was finished 20+ years ago, but that hasn't stopped people from sleeping in them.