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Renters paying 30%+ of income on rent: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Median gross rent and rent burden: Paying 30%+ of income on rent. All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Median gross rent and rent burden by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-10-29

Download full table CSV Source: U.S. Census Bureau (Table B25064) (opens in a new tab)Source: U.S. Census Bureau (Table B25070) (opens in a new tab)

National value: 51.8 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 49.2 %
RI 49.6 %
DE 50.6 %
CT 55.6 %
NJ 52.9 %
MD 51.8 %
MA 52.5 %
VT 49.7 %
NH 48.4 %

Lowest: 34.7 to 46.5 %
Group 2: 46.5 to 48.8 %
Group 3: 48.8 to 50.4 %
Group 4: 50.4 to 52.8 %
Highest: 52.8 to 61.3 %

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. The ranked value is itself derived; see the source table for the method. Values are as published in the source table.


1	Florida	61.3
2	Connecticut	55.6
3	California	55.5
4	Hawaii	55.1
5	Arizona	54.4
6	Louisiana	53.4
7	Mississippi	53.3
8	Nevada	53.1
8	Oregon	53.1
10	New Jersey	52.9
11	Georgia	52.8
12	Massachusetts	52.5
13	South Carolina	52.4
14	New York	52.1
15	Colorado	51.8
15	Maryland	51.8
17	Michigan	51.7
18	Texas	51.4
19	Delaware	50.6
19	Washington	50.6
21	Virginia	50.4
22	Tennessee	50.3
22	Utah	50.3
24	North Carolina	50
25	Illinois	49.7
25	Vermont	49.7
27	Rhode Island	49.6
28	Alabama	49.5
29	Maine	49.3
30	District of Columbia	49.2
31	Idaho	48.8
31	Pennsylvania	48.8
31	West Virginia	48.8
34	Minnesota	48.7
34	Montana	48.7
36	Ohio	48.5
37	Indiana	48.4
37	New Hampshire	48.4
39	New Mexico	47.8
40	Kentucky	46.6
41	Iowa	46.5
42	Oklahoma	45.7
42	Wisconsin	45.7
44	Missouri	45.4
45	Arkansas	45
46	South Dakota	44.9
47	Nebraska	44.7
48	Alaska	43.2
49	Kansas	42.7
50	Wyoming	41.8
51	North Dakota	34.7

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table B25064: Median Gross Rent (Dollars)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table B25070: Gross Rent as a Percentage of Household Income in the Past 12 Months. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by median gross rent and rent burden: Paying 30%+ of income on rent (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Tables B25064 and B25070; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-10-29. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-median-gross-rent-and-rent-burden-paying-30-pct-plus-of-income-on-rent/

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