These towns mass produced homes of only two or three different designs to created fast and cheap homes for families. Home ownership made a drastic jump from 47.8% in 1940 to 55% in 1950.3 These suburbs were extremely profitable. One of the biggest of its time Levittown, was created by Levitt & Sons. It became so popular and desired that it even made the cover of Time Magazine on July third of 19504.William Levitt, the main created gave deals to returning veterans and their families, selling the homes at a much lower cost to them. These suburbs began to pop up everywhere around cities, it was still close to jobs and still people had there own homes and yards. The suburban boom led to much more than just houses, as they became more and more popular, suburbs began to stretch further out. This led to an increase in demand for many new things which expanded to many new job opportunities in the country.
Due to the large increase in population, demand for products was rising as well. The United State's Gross National Product grew from 200,000 million in 1940 to 300,000 million in 1950. New life outside of the cities called for new amenities and transportation. This introduced the family car the middle class families, as earlier it was more of an upperclass privilege than necessity. Many more businesses were being created in order to accommodate new lifestyles. There was an increase in product production like kitchen and laundry alliances, but also an increase in administrative jobs like salesmen and corporate workers. It even became the case that by 1956 the population of white-collar workers was actually more than blue-collar.
More jobs were being created for people. There was even a big movement of women still wanting to work after the war and a large amount of job opportunities for them because of the baby boom. Many new schools and hospitals were being constructed which led a high demand for teachers and nurses.