Rent-burdened renter households (rent 30 percent or more of income)
Renter households whose gross rent (contract rent plus utilities and fuels the renter pays) was 30 percent or more of household income in the past 12 months, as a percentage of renter households for which that ratio can be computed. United States: American Community Survey five-year estimate, where the period shown is the last year of the five-year span.
Renters who pay no cash rent and households with no or negative income are left out of both the count and the base. 30 percent is the usual US threshold for rent burden. The EU housing cost overburden rate (housing_cost_overburden_rate) uses 40 percent of disposable income, all housing costs and people instead of households, so the two cannot be compared.
Key facts
- Rent-burdened renter households (rent 30 percent or more of income) in the United States was 51.1% in 2024, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
- Florida had the highest rent-burdened renter households (rent 30 percent or more of income) of 51 states in 2024, at 60.1%, and North Dakota the lowest, at 38.9%. Source: the U.S. Census Bureau.
- Published for 6,415 places, with figures from 2021 to 2024.
Rankings
- US states
- US counties
- US cities
- Counties in Texas
- Counties in Georgia
- Counties in Virginia
- Counties in Kentucky
- Counties in Missouri
- Counties in Kansas
- Counties in Illinois
- Counties in North Carolina
- Counties in Iowa
US states by rent-burdened renter households (rent 30 percent or more of income), 2024
Places with data
Countries
Regions and states
- California
- Texas
- Florida
- New York
- Pennsylvania
- Illinois
- Ohio
- Georgia
- North Carolina
- Michigan
- Delaware
- District of Columbia
- Arkansas
- Idaho
- Arizona
- Hawaii
Provinces and counties
- Los Angeles County
- Cook County
- Harris County
- Maricopa County
- San Diego County
- Orange County
- Miami-Dade County
- Dallas County
- Kings County
- Riverside County
- Harford County
- Montgomery County
- Howard County
- Wake County
- Rutherford County
- Jefferson County
Use this data in your AI agent
Invokely serves this figure to AI assistants through MCP and to code through a REST API, with the source and citation attached. Ask your assistant:
Which places have the highest rent-burdened renter households (rent 30 percent or more of income)? Use official data and cite it.
rank_places {"indicator":"rent_burden_30_plus_share","level":"region","within":"United States"}
GET https://invokely.ai/api/v1/rank?indicator=rent_burden_30_plus_share&level=region&within=United%20States