Stucco was the most common principal siding material for new single-family homes started in 2023 at 26.8%, according to the Census Bureau’s Survey of Construction. Stucco was followed by vinyl siding at 25.6%, fiber cement siding (such as Hardiplank) at 21.7% then by brick or brick veneer at 18.5%. Far smaller shares had wood or wood products (5.1%) and stone, rock or other stone materials (1.2%) as the principal exterior wall material. The graph shows the shares of each exterior siding since NAHB began tracking this data in 2000. The strongest trend has been the growing popularity in fiber cement siding. The share of exterior siding material for fiber cement siding has increased by five percentage points in the last ten years and by 14.2 percentage points in the past 20 years. Another major trend is the decline of vinyl siding. Although it has remained steady in recent years, this share has seen a 5.3 percentage point drop in the last ten years.