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What percentage of American adults call housing costs a major financial concern for their family?
30.3% of American adults call housing costs a major financial concern for their family - about 30 in every 100, or 3 in 10. That is the figure published by the Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking for 2025.
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Where this number comes from
- Survey
- Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking
- What it measured
- SHED 2025 item X12_c (“Housing costs or availability - Are each of the following a financial challenge or concern for you or your family?”), counting responses 2=Major concern, among the randomly assigned half-sample asked X12 (DOV_X11 = 0). Computed from the Federal Reserve's public-use microdata with its post-stratification weight WEIGHT. The public file has no design variables or replicate weights, so the standard error follows the Fed's documented design effect: SE = √(deff · p(1−p)/n), deff = 1.142 (the Fed's 1.14, or the Kish design effect of these weights if larger); unweighted n = 6,467.
- Population
- U.S. adults aged 18 and over
- Year
- 2025
- 95% confidence interval
- 29.1% to 31.5% (derived from the published standard error)
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, public-use data (doi:10.17016/datasets.002). Percentages computed here, with attribution.. See the source data
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