Mobile home community parks are areas where several mobile homes are put up together. The people residing in the homes may be the owners of the homes themselves, or they may be tenants living in the homes on rent. There are about 1,500 to 2,000 mobile home parks in the USA.

In the earlier days, mobile home parks were referred to as trailer parks. The constructions of the homes were often shoddy and of low quality. These parks did not conform to hygienic standards. All these factors led to trailer parks being considered substandard and indicative of a low societal status. However, perspectives have changed in modern times. Mobile homes are today better structured and organized. They have to adhere to guidelines laid down by the Housing and Urban Development Code. Some mobile home parks today sport doublewide homes which are built of almost the same materials and are as beautifully crafted as on-site homes.

The basic purpose of mobile home parks is often to rent them out. Owners offer their homes to people for rent, even sometimes sourcing their livelihoods through them. In rural areas, the tenants have rights over the entire home as well as the pads surrounding them. However, in more desirable areas, tenants can have rights only over the space within the home, and not the home itself. The home remains the possession and the liability of the owner. This explains the higher standards of modern mobile home parks.

Mobile home community parks are considered to be housing solutions in times of disaster. During natural calamities such as floods, hurricanes and earthquakes, the people rendered homeless are often put up in mobile home parks run by governments. Other than that, mobile home parks provide residences to victims of war and refugees. Such mobile home parks are totally maintained by governments and are temporary settlements. People living in them do not have to pay any rent, or perhaps have to pay just a nominal amount for their upkeep.

Today, doublewide homes are becoming much popular in mobile home parks. Mobile home parks look more sophisticated and are better managed than their earlier versions. Singlewide homes are still popular in certain places, but overall their number is slowly dwindling out.