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Segment Information - Narrative (Details) | 3 Months Ended | 12 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2022 Segments Market OperatingDivisions State | Sep. 30, 2022 Market State | Sep. 30, 2021 | Sep. 30, 2020
Home Building |  |  |  |
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items] |  |  |  |
Number of homebuilding operating divisions | OperatingDivisions | 78 |  |  |
Number of homebuilding reporting segments | Segments | 6 |  |  |
Homebuilding percentage of consolidated revenues |  | 95.00% | 96.00% | 97.00%
Number of housing construction markets | Market | 106 | 106 |  |
Number of housing construction states | State | 33 | 33 |  |
Forestar Group [Member] |  |  |  |
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items] |  |  |  |
Number of housing construction markets | Market | 53 | 53 |  |
Number of housing construction states | State | 21 | 21 |  |

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- Definition Number of operating segments. An operating segment is a component of an enterprise: (a) that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses (including revenues and expenses relating to transactions with other components of the same enterprise), (b) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the enterprise's chief operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and (c) for which discrete financial information is available. An operating segment may engage in business activities for which it has yet to earn revenues, for example, start-up operations may be operating segments before earning revenues. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 18 -URI https://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=126901519&loc=d3e8672-108599 + Details
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