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What percentage of renter households hand over 35% or more of their income in rent?
42.5% of renter households hand over 35% or more of their income in rent — about 43 in every 100, or 4 in 10. That is the figure published by the American Community Survey for 2023.
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42.5
Where this number comes from
- Survey
- American Community Survey
- What it measured
- American Community Survey 1-year estimate, published under the label “GROSS RENT AS A PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLD INCOME (GRAPI) → Occupied units paying rent (excluding units where GRAPI cannot be computed) → 35.0 percent or more”.
- Population
- American renter households
- Year
- 2023
- 90% confidence interval
- 42.4% to 42.6%
Work of the U.S. federal government - public domain. See the source data
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