US states by rent-burdened renter households (rent 30 percent or more of income)

Florida had the highest rent-burdened renter households (rent 30 percent or more of income) of 51 states in 2023, at 58.7%. North Dakota had the lowest, at 38.4%. The median was 48% and the figure for the United States was 50.4%. Source: the U.S. Census Bureau.

Highest58.7Florida

Lowest38.4North Dakota

Median4851 states

United States50.4History

Map of states, 2023

Under 45
45 to 47
47 to 48
48 to 50
50 to 51
51 and over

%, 2023. Source: Invokely calculation with data from U.S. Census Bureau. Boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau cartographic boundary files.

All states, 2023

%. Source: Invokely calculation with data from U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	States	2023 (%)	Change on 2022
1	Florida	58.7	+1.1 pts
2	Hawaii	56.3	+0.5 pts
3	California	54.8	+0.4 pts
4	Nevada	54.3	+1.5 pts
5	Louisiana	53.9	-0.1 pts
6	Colorado	52.2	+0.3 pts
7	Oregon	51.8	+0.9 pts
8	New York	51.5	-0.1 pts
9	Georgia	51.4	+1 pts
10	Connecticut	51.3	0 pts
11	Maryland	51.1	+0.8 pts
12	Massachusetts	51	+0.8 pts
13	South Carolina	51	+0.7 pts
14	New Jersey	50.8	+0.1 pts
15	Texas	50.7	+1 pts
16	Vermont	50.5	-0 pts
17	Mississippi	50.5	+0.2 pts
18	Arizona	50.3	+1.3 pts
19	Michigan	49.6	+0.6 pts
20	New Mexico	49.5	+0.3 pts
21	Washington	49.3	+0.5 pts
22	Delaware	49.1	-0 pts
23	Alabama	48.6	+0.4 pts
24	West Virginia	48.5	-0.4 pts
25	Tennessee	48.1	+0.2 pts
26	Virginia	48	+0.2 pts
27	North Carolina	47.8	+0.2 pts
28	New Hampshire	47.6	+0.8 pts
29	Rhode Island	47.6	0 pts
30	Pennsylvania	47.6	+0.2 pts
31	Indiana	47.4	+0.5 pts
32	Illinois	47.2	-0.1 pts
33	Minnesota	47.2	+0.5 pts
34	Maine	46.9	+0.3 pts
35	District of Columbia	46.4	-0.1 pts
36	Utah	46.3	+0.3 pts
37	Idaho	46.1	+0.6 pts
38	Alaska	45.9	+0.8 pts
39	Oklahoma	45.8	+0.8 pts
40	Montana	45.4	+0.7 pts
41	Missouri	45.2	-0 pts
42	Ohio	45.1	+0.6 pts
43	Kentucky	44.8	+0.5 pts
44	Arkansas	44.7	+0.2 pts
45	Nebraska	43.9	+0.4 pts
46	Iowa	43.5	+0.2 pts
47	Wyoming	43.5	+0.1 pts
48	Kansas	43.4	-0.3 pts
49	Wisconsin	43	-0.1 pts
50	South Dakota	38.8	0 pts
51	North Dakota	38.4	-0.3 pts

Other periods

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2023
2022
2021

About this ranking

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.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the states are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

U.S. Census Bureau. American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25070: renter-occupied units with gross rent of 30 percent or more of household income, as a percentage of units where it is computed, calculated with stored inputs. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2023/table-based-SF/data/5YRData/acsdt5y2023-b25070.dat. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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U.S. Census Bureau. (2026). American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25070: renter-occupied units with gross rent of 30 percent or more of household income, as a percentage of units where it is computed, calculated with stored inputs (US states by rent-burdened renter households (rent 30 percent or more of income), 2023) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2023/table-based-SF/data/5YRData/acsdt5y2023-b25070.dat

MLA 9

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25070: renter-occupied units with gross rent of 30 percent or more of household income, as a percentage of units where it is computed, calculated with stored inputs, US states by rent-burdened renter households (rent 30 percent or more of income), 2023. U.S. Census Bureau, 29 Jan. 2026, https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2023/table-based-SF/data/5YRData/acsdt5y2023-b25070.dat. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/rent-burdened-households/us-states?period=2023. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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U.S. Census Bureau. 2026. American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25070: renter-occupied units with gross rent of 30 percent or more of household income, as a percentage of units where it is computed, calculated with stored inputs. US states by rent-burdened renter households (rent 30 percent or more of income), 2023. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2023/table-based-SF/data/5YRData/acsdt5y2023-b25070.dat. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/rent-burdened-households/us-states?period=2023.

Harvard

U.S. Census Bureau (2026) American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25070: renter-occupied units with gross rent of 30 percent or more of household income, as a percentage of units where it is computed, calculated with stored inputs, US states by rent-burdened renter households (rent 30 percent or more of income), 2023 [Dataset]. Available at: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2023/table-based-SF/data/5YRData/acsdt5y2023-b25070.dat, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/rent-burdened-households/us-states?period=2023 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{census_us_states_by_rent_2023,
  author = {{U.S. Census Bureau}},
  title = {{American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25070: renter-occupied units with gross rent of 30 percent or more of household income, as a percentage of units where it is computed, calculated with stored inputs: US states by rent-burdened renter households (rent 30 percent or more of income), 2023}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {Data set},
  url = {https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2023/table-based-SF/data/5YRData/acsdt5y2023-b25070.dat},
  urldate = {2026-10-12},
  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/rent-burdened-households/us-states?period=2023. Publisher attribution: U.S. Census Bureau. American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25070: renter-occupied units with gross rent of 30 percent or more of household income, as a percentage of units where it is computed, calculated with stored inputs. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary\_file/2023/table-based-SF/data/5YRData/acsdt5y2023-b25070.dat. Retrieved 2026-10-12.},
}

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Which state has the highest rent-burdened renter households (rent 30 percent or more of income)?

Florida, with 58.7% in 2023, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

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North Dakota, with 38.4% in 2023.

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Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25070: renter-occupied units with gross rent of 30 percent or more of household income, as a percentage of units where it is computed, calculated with stored inputs. Retrieved 2026-10-12.