Century Communities Inc

1. BUSINESS.

Overview

Century Communities, Inc., a Delaware corporation (which we refer to as “we,” “us,” “our,” “CCS,” or the “Company”), together with its subsidiaries, is engagedin the development, design, construction, marketing and sale of single-family attached and detached homes in 17 states. In many of our projects, in addition to building homes, weentitle anddevelop the underlying land. We build and sell homes under our Century Communities and Century Complete brands.

Our Century Communities brand has an emphasis on serving the affordable homebuilding market but offers a wide range of buyer profiles including: entry-level, first and second time move-up, and lifestyle homebuyers, and provides our homebuyers with the ability to personalize their homes through certain option and upgrade opportunities. Our Century Complete brand targets entry-level homebuyers, primarily sells homes through retail studios and the internet, and generally provides no option or upgrade opportunities.

Our homebuilding operations are organized into the following five reportable segments: West, Mountain, Texas, Southeast, and Century Complete. Our indirect wholly-owned subsidiaries, Inspire Home Loans Inc., Parkway Title, LLC, IHL Home Insurance Agency, LLC, and IHL Escrow Inc., which provide mortgage, title, insurance brokerage and escrow services, respectively, primarily to our homebuyers, have been identified as our Financial Services segment. Additionally, our wholly owned subsidiary, Century Living, LLC, is engaged in the development, construction and management of multi-family rental properties, currently all located in Colorado. Century Living, LLC is included in our Corporate segment.

While we offer homes that appeal to a broad range of entry-level, move-up, and lifestyle homebuyers, our offerings are heavily weighted towards providing affordable housing options in each of our homebuyer segments. Additionally, we prefer building move-in-ready homes over built-to-order homes, which we believe allows for a faster construction process, advantageous pricing with subcontractors, and shortened time period from home sale to home delivery, thus allowing our customers greater certainty on their financing and allowing us to more appropriately price the homes and deploy our capital. Of the 11,007 homes delivered during 2024, approximately 93% of our deliveries were made to entry-level homebuyers that were below the Federal Housing Administration-insured mortgage limitsand approximately 99% of homes delivered were built as move-in ready homes.

We are one of the largest homebuilders in the United States and our common shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “CCS.” Since our initial public offering in 2014, we have expanded geographically through the acquisitions of other homebuilders and organic entrance into new markets.

As of December 31, 2024, we operated in the 17 states and over 45 markets depicted below:

We operate within the following reportable segments:

West (California and Washington)

Mountain (Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and Utah)

Texas

Southeast (Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee)

Century Complete (Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, North Carolina, and South Carolina)

Financial Services (which provide mortgage, title, insurance brokerage, and escrow services to our homebuyers)

Our Corporate operations are a non-operating segment, as it serves to support our homebuilding operations, and to a lesser extent our Financial Services operations, through various functions, such as our executive, finance, treasury, human resources, accounting and legal departments. Additionally, our wholly owned subsidiary, Century Living, LLC, is engaged in the development, construction and management of multi-family rental properties, currently all located in Colorado. Century Living, LLC is included in our Corporate segment. See Note 2 – Reporting Segments in the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for further detail on our reportable segments.

Macro-economic conditions, along with our operating efficiencies, business strategy and geographic expansion through the acquisition of other homebuilders and organic entrance into new markets, has resulted in significant increases in total revenue, net income, and total stockholders’ equity as outlined below:

Homebuilding Operations

Strategy

Our strategy is focused on increasing the returns on our stockholders’ equity and inventory, and continuing to generate growth and strong profitability. In general, we are focused on the following:

Maintaining a strong balance sheet and prudent use of leverage;

Offering homes that appeal to a broad range of entry-level, move-up, and lifestyle homebuyers, while heavily weighting our offerings towards providing affordable housing options in each of our homebuyer segments;

Preferring building move-in-ready homes over built-to-order homes, which we believe allows for a faster construction process, advantageous pricing with subcontractors, and a shortened time period from home sale to home delivery, thus allowing our customers greater certainty on their financing and allowing us to more appropriately price the homes and deploy our capital;

Maintaining a strong pipeline of future land holdings, including favoring lot option contracts to manage our risk to land holdings;

Increasing our market share within our existing markets through organic growth and/or acquisitions of other homebuilders already operating in the market; and

Controlling costs, including costs of home sales revenue and selling, general and administrative expenses, and generating further efficiencies, including continued reliance on digital marketing and the ability to buy a home on our website, and cost efficiencies in our direct costs of construction through continued value engineering of our home plans.

Our operating strategy has resulted in significant growth in revenue and net income since 2019. We anticipate the homebuilding markets in each of our operating segments will continue to be tied to both the macro-economic environment and the local economy, andwe expect our operating strategy will continue to adapt to market changes, though we cannot provide any assurance that our strategies will continue to be successful or change over time.

The core of our business plan is to acquire land strategically, based on our understanding of population growth patterns, local markets, entitlement restrictions and infrastructure development. We focus on locations within our markets that are generally characterized by diverse economic and employment bases and demographics and increasing populations. We believe these conditions create strong demand for new housing, and these locations represent what we believe to be attractive opportunities for long-term growth. We also seek assets that have desirable characteristics, such as good access to major job centers, schools, shopping, recreation and transportation facilities. Location, product, price point and customer service are key components of the connection we seek to establish with each individual homebuyer. Our construction expertise across an extensive product offering allows us flexibility to pursue a wide array of land acquisition opportunities and appeal to a broad range of potential homebuyers, from entry-level to first- and second-time move-up buyers and lifestyle homebuyers. Additionally, we believe our diversified product strategy enables us to adapt quickly to changing market conditions and to optimize returns while strategically reducing portfolio risk.

We continue to actively seek opportunities to increase our market share within our existing markets through acquisitions of other homebuilders already operating in the market. During 2024, we completed two acquisitions. On July 31, 2024, we closed on the acquisition of substantially all the assets and operations and assumed certain liabilities of Anglia Homes LP (“Anglia”), a homebuilder with operations in the greater Houston, Texas area, for approximately $127.0 million in cash, inclusive of customary holdbacks. On January 22, 2024, we closed on the acquisition of substantially all the assets and operations and assumed certain liabilities of Landmark Homes of Tennessee, Inc. (“Landmark”), a homebuilder with operations, including six active communities, in Nashville, Tennessee, for approximately $33.4 million in cash, inclusive of customary holdbacks.

We believe we are well-positioned to benefit from the ongoing shortage of both new and resale homes available for purchase in our key markets, and the favorable demographics that support the need for new affordable housing. We believe our operations are prepared to withstand volatility in future market conditions as a result of our product offerings which both span the home buying segment and focus on affordable price points, and our current and future inventories of attractive land positions. We have continued to focus on maintaining an appropriate balance of home and land inventories in relation to anticipated future demand, as well as prudent leverage, and, as a result, we believe we are well positioned to continue to execute on our strategy to optimize stockholder returns.

Land acquisition process

We acquire land for our homebuilding operations with the primary intent to construct single-family detached or attached homes for sale on the acquired land. From time to time, we may sell land to other developers and homebuilders where we have excess land positions. We generally acquire land for cash, either through bulk acquisitions of land or through option contracts. Option contracts are generally structured where we have the right, but not the obligation, to buy land at predetermined prices on a defined schedule. Potential land acquisitions are normally identified by our local management within the markets in which we operate. We typically purchase lots for our Century Communities brand which range in status at acquisition from entitled for residential construction but requiring installation of streets, common areas, and wet and dry utilities to lots which are fully developed and immediately available for permitting and construction of the residence. For lots requiring development work, we negotiate, contract for, and oversee the work performed by subcontractors internally, and in some limited cases, we may hire a third-party general contractor for these services. For our Century Complete brand, we typically purchase lots which are immediately available for permitting and construction of the residence. Our land acquisition process typically includes soil tests, independent environmental studies, other engineering work and financial analysis which includes an evaluation of expected returns, projected gross margins, estimated sales pace and pricing. Potential land acquisitions are approved by our corporate office above established limits to ensure appropriate capital allocations taking into consideration current and projected inventory levels and risk adjusted returns.

We have continued to strategically manage our lot pipeline, including both organically and through acquisitions, in order tomaintain a balance between the number of owned lots as compared to lots we control through option and other contracts. This balance allows us flexibility to adjust to market conditions as they develop and the ability to exit positions at a reasonable cost in the event of a market downturn, without adversely impacting near term lot pipelines on which to start homes. This strategy has resulted in an owned and under control lot position of 80,632 as of December 31, 2024, of which 44.3% were owned and 55.7% were controlled through purchase and option contracts. Our owned and controlled lot position and our owned and controlled lot position by reportable segment as of December 31, 2024 is outlined below.

Design and construction

We engage architects, engineers and other professionals in connection with the home design process who are familiar with local market preferences, constraints, conditions and requirements, and we generally own the architectural design rights to our home plans. We serve as the general contractor, with all construction work typically performed by subcontractors. While we maintain long-standing relationships with many of our subcontractors and design professionals, we typically do not enter into long-term contractual commitments with them and as a result may be subject to shortages of qualified and skilled labor. Our personnel, along with subcontracted marketing and design consultants, carefully design the exterior and interior of our home plans to coincide with the needs oftargeted homebuyers.

When constructing homes, we use various construction materials and components including lumber, steel and concrete. It typically takes us four to five months, or more in some instances, to construct a home. While we attempt to contract for all input costs of the home at the start of construction, it is not always possible to do so. In those instances, labor and materials are subject to price fluctuations during the construction period. Such price fluctuations are caused by several factors, including seasonal variation in availability and demand for labor and materials. We may experience shortages in the availability of materials and/or labor in each of our markets and these shortages and delays may result in delays in the delivery of homes under construction, and/or reduced gross margins from home sales. During the year ended December 31, 2024, cycle times remained in the four- to five-month timeframe.

We are dependent upon building material suppliers for a continuous flow of certain materials. Whenever possible, we utilize standard products available from multiple national and international sources and utilize our buying power and relationships throughout the supply chain to ensure availability of products. We may also contract on a national level, directly with suppliers in many instances, to ensure availability and competitive prices of key materials. Further, we design and engineer our homes for energy efficiency to reduce the impact on the environment and lower energy costs to our homeowners.

Homebuilding marketing and sales process – Century Communities brand

Our Century Communities brand has a focus on affordable housing options in each market but builds an extensive range of home types across a variety of price points. Our Century Communities brand strives to provide our customers with “A Home for Every Dream®.”

In many of our communities, we provide our customers with certain customization options to suit their lifestyle needs and have developed a number of home designs with features such as outdoor living spaces, one-story living and first floor primary bedroom suites to appeal to broad design needs. At times, we offer homebuyers environmentally friendly alternatives, such as solar power to supplement a home’s energy needs.

We sell our homes through our own sales representatives often with the assistance of independent real estate brokers. Our in-house sales force typically works from sales offices located in model homes close to or in each community. Additionally, we provide the ability for our customers to purchase homes directly on our website. Sales representatives assist potential buyers by providing them with basic floor plans, price information, development and construction timetables, and tours of model homes where available. Sales personnel are trained by us and generally have had prior experience selling new or resale homes in the local market.

We advertise directly to potential homebuyers through the internet and digital marketing, marketing brochures, and to a lesser extent, newspapers. We may also use billboards, radio and television advertising, along with our website, to market the location, price range and availability of our homes. We also attempt to operate in conspicuously located areas that permit us to take advantage of local traffic patterns. Model homes play a significant role in our marketing efforts by creating an attractive atmosphere and assisting the customer in visualizing the livability of our floor plans.

Homebuilding marketing and sales process – Century Complete brand

Our Century Complete brand primarily sells affordable homes to entry-level buyers through our own sales representatives located in retail locations which we refer to as studios, as opposed to model homes; however, model and vignetted homes are used in certain instances. We lease our studios within strip malls or other high traffic retail centers, located centrally to our homes under construction. Our studios are generally leased for a period of three years and average approximately 1,750 square feet. We also sell homes directly through our Century Complete website and utilize the services of independent real estate brokers in many cases. Our Century Complete brand aims to provide our customers with “More Home, Less Money®.”

Our Century Complete brand often competes with resales as well as other new home builders within the submarkets in which we operate. We are often able to offer a new home offering to our customers at prices that are lower than other new home offerings. Our goal is to be the price leader through, among other factors, providing a limited number of floor plans, with no options or upgrades offered. Our advertising and marketing efforts are focused on cost effective means of reaching potential customers including centralized digital marketing, and direct outreach to independent real estate brokers. We leverage our studios, advertising and marketing efforts to generate homebuyer leads, which are then actively pursued by our sales associates.

Customer experience

Our goal is to provide a positive experience for our homeowners by engaging them in the homebuying and homeowning processes. We pay particular attention to product design and carefully consider choice of materials in order to provide features that homebuyers today are seeking. We maintain customer service staff whose role includes providing a positive experience for each customer throughout the pre-closing process, home closing process and beyond. This group is also responsible for providing after sales customer service. Our customer service initiatives include using customer survey results to improve our standards of customer satisfaction. Generally, we provide each homeowner with product warranties covering workmanship and materials for one year from the time of closing, and warranties covering structural systems from the time of closing through the statute of repose with the states we operate in, or ten years, whichever is shorter. The subcontractors who perform most of the actual construction also provide to us customary warranties on workmanship.

Seasonality

Historically, the homebuilding industry experiences seasonal fluctuations in quarterly operating results and capital requirements. We typically experience the highest new home order activity during the spring, although this activity is also highly dependent on the number of active selling communities, timing of new community openings and other market factors. Since it typically takes us four to five months to construct a new home, we deliver more homes in the second half of the year as spring and summer home starts convert to home deliveries. Because of this seasonality, home starts, construction costs and related cash outflows have historically been highest in the second and third quarters, and the majority of cash receipts from home deliveries occurs during the second half of the year. This seasonality pattern may be affected by volatility in the homebuilding industry, supply chain challenges, subcontractor and labor shortages, and changes in demand for our homes.

Financial Services Operations

We offer home financing primarily for our customers through our wholly owned subsidiary, Inspire Home Loans Inc. (which we refer to as “Inspire”). Inspire is authorized to originate Federal National Mortgage Association (“Fannie Mae”), Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (“Freddie Mac”), Government National Mortgage Association (“Ginnie Mae”), FHA, Department of Veterans Affairs-guaranteed (“VA”), and U.S. Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) mortgages (which we refer to collectively as the “government sponsored entities”). We also offer title, homeowners insurance, and escrow services through our wholly owned subsidiaries, Parkway

Title, LLC (which we refer to as “Parkway”), IHL Home Insurance Agency, LLC (which we refer to as “IHL Insurance”), and IHL Escrow Inc. (which we refer to as “IHL Escrow”) respectively. These operations, along with Inspire, collectively comprise our Financial Services operating segment. We believe that our customers’ use of Inspire, Parkway, IHL Insurance, and IHL Escrow provides us with a competitive advantage by enabling more control over the quality of the overall home buying process for our customers, while also helping us align the timing of the house construction process with our customers’ financing, title, insurance, and escrow needs.

The results of operations of our Financial Services operating segment are primarily driven by the results of Inspire. Because Inspire originates mortgage loans primarily for our homebuilding customers, Inspire is dependent on our homebuilding operations and its results of operations are highly correlated with our homebuilding operations, and to a lesser degree the overall market demand for mortgages.

Inspire sells substantially all of the loans it originates, either as loans with servicing rights released, or with servicing rights retained, in the secondary mortgage market within a short period of time after origination, generally within 30 days. Inspire primarily finances these loans using its mortgage repurchase facilities. This strategy results in owning the loans for only a short period of time. After the loans are sold, Inspire may be responsible for potential losses associated with mortgage loans originated and sold in the event of errors or omissions relating to customary industry-standard representations and warranties made by Inspire that the loans met certain requirements. Representations include underwriting standards, the existence of primary mortgage insurance, and the validity of certain borrower representations in connection with the loans.

Governmental Regulation and Environmental Matters

We are subject to numerous local, state, federal and other statutes, ordinances, rules and regulations concerning zoning, development, building design, construction and similar matters which impose restrictive zoning and density requirements in order to limit the number of homes that can eventually be built within the boundaries of a particular area. In the normal course of business, we incur the costs associated with these laws and regulations, which are included in our homebuilding cost of revenues. Projects that are not entitled may be subjected to periodic delays, changes in use, less intensive development or elimination of development in certain specific areas due to government regulations. We may also be subject to periodic delays or may be precluded entirely from developing in certain communities due to building moratoriums or “slow-growth” or “no-growth” initiatives that could be implemented in the future. Local and state governments also have broad discretion regarding the imposition of development fees for projects in their jurisdiction. Projects for which we have received land use and development entitlements or approvals may still require a variety of other governmental approvals and permits during the development process and can also be impacted adversely by unforeseen municipal, regulatory, health, safety and welfare issues, which can further delay these projects or prevent their development.

We are also subject to a variety of local, state, federal and other statutes, ordinances, rules and regulations concerning the environment. The particular environmental laws which apply to any given homebuilding site vary according to the site’s location, its environmental conditions, and the present and former uses of the site, as well as adjoining properties. Environmental laws and conditions may result in delays, may cause us to incur substantial compliance and other costs, which are difficult or impossible to estimate, and can prohibit or severely restrict homebuilding activity in environmentally sensitive regions or areas. From time to time, the Environmental Protection Agency and similar federal or state agencies review homebuilders’ compliance with environmental laws and may levy fines and penalties for failure to strictly comply with applicable environmental laws or impose additional requirements for future compliance as a result of past failures. Any such actions taken with respect to us may increase our costs. Further, we expect that increasingly stringent requirements will be imposed on homebuilders in the future. Environmental regulations can also have an adverse impact on the availability and price of certain raw materials such as lumber. Any delays and costs associated with our compliance with environmental laws and conditions have not materially impacted our results of operations.

Under various environmental laws, current or former owners of real estate, as well as certain other categories of parties, may be required to investigate and clean up hazardous or toxic substances or petroleum product releases, and may be held liable to a governmental entity or to third parties for property damage and for investigation and cleanup costs incurred by such parties in connection with the contamination. In addition, in those cases where an endangered species is involved, environmental rules and regulations can result in the elimination of development in identified environmentally sensitive areas.

Our mortgage, title, insurance, and escrow subsidiaries must comply with applicable real estate, lending and insurance laws and regulations. The subsidiaries are licensed in the states in which they do business and must comply with laws and regulations in those states. These laws and regulations include provisions regarding capitalization, operating procedures, investments, lending and privacy disclosures, forms of policies and premiums. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act contains a number of requirements relating to mortgage lending and securitizations. These include, among others, minimum standards for lender practices, limitations on certain fees and a requirement that the originator of loans that are securitized retain a portion of the risk, either directly or by holding interests in the securitizations. The impact of those statutes, rules, and regulations can be to increase our homebuyers’ cost of financing, increase our cost of doing business, and restrict our homebuyers’ access to some types of loans.

Several federal, state and local laws, rules, regulations and ordinances, including, but not limited to, the Federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (“FDCPA”) and the Federal Trade Commission Act and comparable state statutes, regulate consumer debt collection activity. Although, for a variety of reasons, we may not be specifically subject to the FDCPA or to some state statutes that govern debt collectors, it is our policy to comply with applicable laws in our collection activities. To the extent that some or all of these laws apply to our collection activities, our failure to comply with such laws could have a material adverse effect on us. We are also subject to regulations promulgated by the Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau regarding residential mortgage loans.

Competition

We face competition in the homebuilding industry, which is characterized by relatively low barriers to entry. Homebuilders compete for, among other things, home buying customers, desirable land parcels, employees, financing, raw materials and skilled labor. Increased competition may prevent us from acquiring attractive land parcels on which to build homes or make such acquisitions more expensive, hinder our market share expansion or lead to pricing pressures on our homes that may adversely impact our margins and revenues. Our competitors may independently develop land and construct housing units that are superior or substantially similar to our products, or may be significantly larger, have a longer operating history and have greater resources or lower cost of capital than us; accordingly, they may be able to compete more effectively in one or more of the markets in which we operate or plan to operate. We also compete with other homebuilders that have long-standing relationships with subcontractors and suppliers in the markets in which we operate or plan to operate and we compete for sales with individual resales of existing homes and with available rental housing.

Our Financial Services operations compete with other mortgage lenders, including national, regional and local mortgage bankers and brokers, banks, savings and loan associations and other financial institutions, in the origination and sale of residential mortgage loans. Principal competitive factors include interest rates and other features of mortgage loan products available to the consumer. We compete with other title insurance agencies and underwriters for closing services and title insurance. We also compete with other insurance agencies, with principal competitive factors including service and price.

Human Capital Resources

Our mission is to build attractive, high-quality homes at affordable prices as we provide our valued customers “A Home for Every Dream®.” Our team is dedicated to building new homes with lasting livability and creating enduring neighborhoods.

We recognize that our employees are key to our ability to achieve our mission and believe our employees have and will continue to be a primary reason for our growth and success. We place a focus on attracting and retaining talented and experienced individuals to manage and support our operations.

Recognizing the importance of our human capital, our Board of Directors, through the Compensation Committee, retains direct oversight of our human capital and oversees and reviews our culture and policies and strategies related to human capital management, including with respect to diversity and inclusion initiatives, pay equity, talent, recruitment and development, performance management and employee engagement.

In 2024, we were named to Newsweek’s list of World’s Most Trustworthy Companies, and we were named to Newsweek’s list of Most Trustworthy Companies in America for the second year in a row.

Employees

The total number of employees as of December 31, 2024 was 1,873, which includes 251 employees related to our Financial Services segment and 1,622 employees related to our corporate and homebuilding operations. Our headcount increased by approximately 13.5% compared to December 31, 2023 as a result of increased active community count during 2024. Within our homebuilding operations, the majority of our employees are related to our construction and sales functions, which totaled 462 and 471 employees, respectively, as of December 31, 2024. We do not have collective bargaining agreements relating to any of our employees, and we have not experienced any strikes or work stoppages. However, we subcontract many phases of our homebuilding operations and some of the subcontractors we use may have employees who are represented by labor unions.

Our Executive Chairman, our Chief Executive Officer, and our Chief Financial Officer, who, along with our Board of Directors, are responsible for setting our overall strategy, average approximately 20 years with us, and have extensive experience in the homebuilding industry. Our Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer are also the founders of the company. Our leadership team’s long service history provides consistency in managing our business and helps reinforce and sustain our company culture through all levels of the organization.

Employee compensation and benefits

Our employees are critical to our continued success and execution of our strategic priorities. We understand that our ultimate success and ability to compete are significantly dependent on how well we attract, promote, retain qualified employees with the expertise needed to manage and support our operations. To attract and retain top talent in the industry, we offer our employees pay and benefits packages, which we believe are competitive with others throughout our industry, as well as within the local markets in which we operate. Compensation packages for our employees generally include competitive base pay and the opportunity to receive periodic bonus payments which are tied to individual employee performance and often times the achievement of operational performance targets. These operational performance targets vary by year and may vary based on local market conditions. Additionally, for certain employees critical to the management of our operations, we provide long-term incentive compensation, in the form of restricted stock units, which typically vest over a three-year period. We believe this compensation structure provides our employees with competitive pay and aligns individual performance with our success.

Employee training

In accordance with our Commitment to Training and Professional Development, we train new and existing employees in a variety of areas, including company policies, anti-harassment, anti-discrimination, sales, information technology including cybersecurity risks, retirement and financial wellness planning, and safety. On an individual level, we are committed to providing employees with the feedback necessary to improve their performance, reviewing expectations of their position, and fostering growth in their current role. As part of our commitment to the ongoing training and development of our employees, we established Century University, providing a broad range of training opportunities. Century University includes (i) playbooks that document Century’s best practices, (ii) a learning management system that includes training videos and quizzes covering topics such as construction, customer relations, purchasing, and land development and architecture, and safety, (iii) field training for our construction and sales personnel taught by internal and external subject matter experts, and (iv) periodic leadership seminars for our executives and much more.

Diversity, inclusion, and ethics

As set forth in our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion, our commitment to equal opportunity does not begin with employment; it begins at the time a position becomes open. We and any recruiting agencies that we use commit to equal opportunity recruiting. We are committed to hiring and supporting a diverse and inclusive workforce. We define diversity as the range of human differences, including but not limited to race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, social class, physical ability or attributes, religious or ethical values system, national origin, and political beliefs. We aim to create an inclusive organization where all employees are treated with dignity and respect and are empowered to reach their full potential. Among other programs, all new employees are required to take trainings related to anti-harassment and anti-discrimination. Further, all employees are trained on anti-harassment and anti-discrimination every two years or more often if required by state law. We are committed to equal opportunity from the time a position becomes open, and are committed to pay equity, a core element of our pay-for-performance strategy.

As of December 31, 2024, our overall workforce was comprised of approximately 42% women and 25% identified as racially or ethnically diverse. Our manager level employees, including those at our corporate office, our on-site sales, sales support and construction workforce, was comprised of approximately 38% women and 18% identified as racially or ethnically diverse. Of our U.S. workforce, 3% are veterans. Of the seven members of our Board of Directors, nearly 30% are female and nearly 30% are racially or ethnically diverse.

Additionally, all our employees are expected to display and encourage honest, ethical, and respectful conduct in the workplace. Our employees must adhere to our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics that sets standards for appropriate behavior and includes periodic training on preventing, identifying, reporting, and stopping discrimination of any kind. Employees may anonymously report any suspected violations to our web-based reporting system or Corporate Compliance Line. We also maintain an anti-retaliation policy such that any employee who reports a concern in good faith is protected from harassment, retaliation, or adverse employment consequences.

Vendors and Suppliers

At Century, we aim to conduct our business operations at the highest level of ethical standards. We expect our vendors – including business partners, suppliers and trade partners – to understand and act in accordance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, as well as to abide by our workplace policy standards. This includes our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics Policy Statement, our Human Rights Policy Statement, our Commitment to Workplace Health & Safety Statement and our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion Policy Statement.

Our goal is to partner with vendors that conduct their businesses with a set of ethical standards comparable to our own and who share our same commitment to workplace health and safety, labor rights and the environment.

We expect that all our vendor business partners commit to providing a safe workplace and standards for employment that respect the rights of their employees under federal, state and local laws. In addition, we have developed a Vendor Code of Conduct to establish principles, guidelines and standards with respect to the conduct of our vendor business partners. These principles, guidelines and standards build on those contained within our own Ethics Policy and are intended to help us address certain risks. Through their vendor agreements with us, we expect our vendor business providers will respect the principles, guidelines and standards reflected in this Code. We also expect our vendor business partners to follow best industry practices.

Health and safety

The philosophy at Century that we pursue each and every day is that “No one gets hurt. Everyone goes home to build another day.” We are committed to workplace health and safety, as outlined in our Labor Rights Policy. In our corporate structure, we have a Senior Director of National Safety as well as an Assistant Safety Manager, who provide centralized administrative support and set guidelines for audit frequency and conduct internal audits. Each division designates Division Safety Officers, who are extensively trained in on-site hazard identification, abatement protocols and safety incident reporting in order to promote and maintain Occupational Safety and Health Administration compliance. Additionally, we conduct bi-monthly safety audits, as well as third-party safety inspections, to ensure our construction operations are safe. We also provide safety training through webinars, classroom settings, field onsite forums, trade toolbox talks, and one-on-one mentoring with third-party safety auditors. Finally, we request that all our subcontractors have active safety programs before they are hired. During 2024, the recordable injury rate of our direct employees was 0.57%, which decreased from the prior year.

Community support and engagement

As a leading homebuilder with a presence in 17 states and over 45 markets, we play an important role in helping to solve the shortage of housing, especially affordable housing, that exists today in the United States. We are not only dedicated to building sustainable and affordable new homes, but we also believe it is important to support the communities in which we live and operate by donating both our time and additional resources. In 2021, we established Century Communities Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, to support our local teams at the corporate level with their initiatives and to make contributions at both national and local levels. To further expand on our community engagement, we utilize an online system where our employees can identify volunteer opportunities, track hours spent volunteering, and make donations.

Century ESG report

More information regarding our human capital programs and initiatives can be found in our Environmental, Social and Governance Report. Our Environmental, Social and Governance Report is available under the “Investors-ESG” section of our website located at www.centurycommunities.com. Information on our website, including the Environmental, Social and Governance Report, is not incorporated by reference in or otherwise considered a part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Available Information

We are a U.S. public reporting company under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (which we refer to as the “Exchange Act”), and file reports, proxy statements, and other information with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (which we refer to as the “SEC”). Copies of these reports, proxy statements, and other information can be accessed from the SEC's home page on the Internet at http://www.sec.gov. Our Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and Current Reports on Form 8-K are available free of charge on our website at www.centurycommunities.com as soon as reasonably practicable after such materials are electronically filed with, or furnished to, the SEC. The information contained on our website or connected to our website is not incorporated by reference into this Form 10-K and should not be considered part of this report.

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