California, largest employer of seasonal labor in the United States, employs an average of 119,600 seasonal farmworkers per year. To ease problems of housing this seasonal workforce, the State Department of Housing and Community Development's Office of Migrant Services contracts with local government agencies to provide decent/affordable housing for over 12,000 migrants in 25 centers in 14 agricultural counties. These centers are occupied during the 6-month harvest season from April through November. The 19th annual demographic data on migrant families who occupy these housing units indicates the typical 1985 migrant family consists of five persons, with two parents between 18 and 44 years old, who have completed 4 to 6 years of school. The family has two or three children and possibly another relative living with them. Two household members work in the field and two children attend day/infant care facilities or summer school. Approximately 39% of families migrate annually from as far away as Central Mexico (1,800 miles), 30% migrate from South Texas and northern Mexican states of Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Chihuahua, and 25% come from the Yuma-El Centro-Mexicali area. An estimated 47% of the 2,445 families served stayed at the 25 centers the entire 180-day occupancy period. (NEC)