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Share of renters paying $500–999 a month: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Share of renting households with gross rent of $500–999 a month (%). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Renter homes by monthly gross rent by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

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Data last updated: 2026-11-04

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National value: 16 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 6.1 %
RI 12.2 %
DE 7.8 %
CT 10 %
NJ 6.9 %
MD 7.5 %
MA 10.5 %
VT 16.8 %
NH 9.9 %

Lowest: 6.1 to 9.9 %
Group 2: 9.9 to 15 %
Group 3: 15 to 21 %
Group 4: 21 to 31.9 %
Highest: 31.9 to 44.8 %

The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. Values are as published in the source table.


1	West Virginia	44.8
2	Iowa	40.7
3	Arkansas	37.7
4	Wyoming	37.6
5	North Dakota	37.2
6	Kentucky	35
7	Mississippi	34.9
8	Oklahoma	33.5
9	Kansas	33.4
10	South Dakota	32.7
11	Missouri	31.9
11	New Mexico	31.9
13	Louisiana	31.1
14	Alabama	30
14	Ohio	30
16	Montana	29.5
17	Indiana	27.7
18	Nebraska	26.7
19	Wisconsin	25.6
20	Michigan	24.1
21	Pennsylvania	21
22	South Carolina	20.9
23	Illinois	20.2
24	Tennessee	19.8
25	North Carolina	19.4
26	Maine	19.1
27	Idaho	18.1
28	Minnesota	17.9
29	Vermont	16.8
30	Georgia	15.9
31	Alaska	15
32	New York	13
33	Texas	12.7
34	Virginia	12.5
35	Rhode Island	12.2
36	Oregon	11.5
37	Arizona	11
38	Massachusetts	10.5
39	Connecticut	10
40	New Hampshire	9.9
40	Utah	9.9
42	Hawaii	8.6
43	Nevada	8.4
44	Washington	8
45	Delaware	7.8
46	Colorado	7.7
47	Maryland	7.5
48	Florida	7.2
49	New Jersey	6.9
50	California	6.3
51	District of Columbia	6.1

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table DP04: Selected Housing Characteristics. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by share of renting households with gross rent of $500–999 a month (%) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table DP04; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-04. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-500-to-999/

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