Geographical Research

The sustainable housing Indexs as a plan and a necessary tools have prominent role in rural housing planning for explaining the sustainability of various dimensions such as social, economic and physical of housing. Therefore, supplement of a plan in the sector of rural sustainable housing is required to both recognition and analysis of both various dimensions and components of sustainable housing. So, this paper aims to recognize and analyze the effective factors upon rural housing sustainability and for this goal, the rural area of Mamolan in the township of Poldokhtar has been selected. The method of the research is descriptive-analytic, correlation and the approach is integrated. The statistical population of the research is the households of the Mamolan rural area. The sample size for the designed questionnaire is determined 180 residents using Cochran’s formula and the method of sampling is occasional. The obtained coefficient from Cochran’s formula is 0/74 percent which indicates the high reliability of the research tool. The obtained results from analyzes of the SPSS software show that the five factors of facility - and welfare, economic, building strength, efficiency and harmony with the environment are able to explain 82 percent of the indicators variances of the research and consideration to these factors in the rural housing planning are necessary.