Co-op facts & stats

Question 1

About how many families live in housing cooperatives in the U.S.?

Accepted Answer

more than 1 million. Housing co-ops let residents jointly own and manage their building rather than renting from a landlord.

Question 2

Rural electric cooperatives serve about how many consumers across the U.S.?

Accepted Answer

more than 42 million. About 900 electric co-ops power over 18 million homes, schools and businesses across 47 states.

Question 3

The National Co+op Grocers network of food co-ops does about how much in combined annual sales?

Accepted Answer

nearly $2 billion. That's across 148 member food co-ops running over 200 stores in 38 states.

Question 4

At a well-known worker-owned home care co-op, switching to a cooperative model reportedly cut employee turnover from 60% to about what?

Accepted Answer

about 15%. Giving workers an ownership stake is credited with making them far more likely to stay in the job.

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