Burden and exclusions
See the shares paying at least 30% or 50% of income on gross rent, alongside the population with no computed ratio. Not-computed cases stay separate from zero burden.
Housing decisions / renter context
Understand the numbers behind renting.
For renters, families and the people helping them plan. Compare cost burden, the rentals excluded from that ratio, tenure and occupied building types.
5,000 native Census places across all 50 states. ACS 2020-2024 five-year estimates, with 2024 place boundaries.
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The occupied stock
Compare rental tenure and one-unit, smaller multifamily, larger multifamily, mobile-home and other published categories. Occupied stock does not establish current availability or property condition.
Evidence before a commitment
Keep the source populations, original rows and margins. Then check current leases, total costs, accessibility, local conditions and the details relevant to your decision.
Find renter context for your community
Search a city, town or Census-designated place, or a topic such as burden or apartments. These are native place estimates, not ZIP areas or neighborhoods.
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$1 / Tables and sources
27 place/state/national observations, CSV and JSON, original relevant source rows, source definitions, field dictionary, citations, methods and a readable finding.
$5 / Cited charts
Everything in the $1 edition, plus nine charts on consistent zero-to-100 percent scales with their source populations and citations.
$10 / Contextual report
Everything in the $5 edition, plus alternative interpretations, next local checks, a decision worksheet and isolated, reproducible calculations.
What these estimates can and cannot establish
Original government data remains free. The paid layers save preparation time and add context. State and national benchmarks include the focal place. Separate aggregates do not describe one linked household.
Each cohort starts with up to five remaining qualified places per state, then adds places by estimated occupied rental units. The second cohort excludes every place in the first cohort. It is coverage selection, not a best-place ranking. The smallest selected source denominator is 548 estimated units. These are not respondent counts or a statistical precision rating. Original component margins are retained; no derived confidence interval, significance, causal effect, individual outcome or forecast is claimed.
Not computed does not necessarily mean a missing answer. The rent table alone does not identify why a ratio was not computed. Structure categories are not inspections, current listings or counts of unhoused people.
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