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Median Contract Rent in the U.S.

TUESDAY, JUL 28, 2020

A potential wave of evictions looms, with 1 in 5 Americans falling behind on their monthly rent, according to the Census Bureau’s July 9-14 Household Pulse Survey. In almost 640 U.S. neighborhoods, the median rent exceeds half the typical income of $63,179  for a U.S. household, according to a Social Explorer analysis of 2014-18 American Community Survey data; in more than 4,800 neighborhoods, the median rent is more than one-third of the typical U.S. household income.

Rents are typically highest in places where income exceeds the median household income. Median rent tops $3,500 in almost 70 Census tracts, mostly concentrated in California, Florida, New York, and the Washington, D.C., metro area.

Check out the median rent in your neighborhood using Social Explorer, an interactive mapping tool that democratizes complex data.

    

Median Contract Rent in 2018. Click here to explore further.


Author: Frank Bass

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