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Renters paying 50%+ of income on rent: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Median gross rent and rent burden: Paying 50%+ 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: 26.2 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 23.1 %
RI 23.1 %
DE 25.9 %
CT 28.5 %
NJ 27.5 %
MD 27.4 %
MA 26.8 %
VT 23 %
NH 21.7 %

Lowest: 15.4 to 22.3 %
Group 2: 22.3 to 23.6 %
Group 3: 23.6 to 25.6 %
Group 4: 25.6 to 27.4 %
Highest: 27.4 to 31.4 %

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	31.4
2	California	29
2	Hawaii	29
4	New York	28.9
5	Connecticut	28.5
6	Mississippi	28.4
7	Louisiana	28.2
8	Michigan	27.8
9	Oregon	27.6
10	New Jersey	27.5
11	Maryland	27.4
12	Massachusetts	26.8
12	South Carolina	26.8
14	Nevada	26.6
15	Illinois	26.5
16	West Virginia	26.4
17	Arizona	26.3
18	Georgia	26.1
19	Delaware	25.9
20	Alabama	25.6
20	Texas	25.6
22	Colorado	25.4
23	Pennsylvania	25.1
24	Indiana	24.7
25	Washington	24.5
26	Minnesota	24
27	New Mexico	23.9
27	Ohio	23.9
29	Idaho	23.7
29	Maine	23.7
31	Tennessee	23.6
31	Virginia	23.6
33	Utah	23.4
34	North Carolina	23.2
35	District of Columbia	23.1
35	Rhode Island	23.1
37	Vermont	23
38	Kentucky	22.9
39	Iowa	22.8
40	Wisconsin	22.4
41	Nebraska	22.3
42	Arkansas	22.1
43	Oklahoma	22
44	New Hampshire	21.7
45	Missouri	21.2
46	Kansas	20.5
47	Montana	19.6
48	South Dakota	19.2
49	Wyoming	18.1
50	Alaska	17.3
51	North Dakota	15.4

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 50%+ 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-50-pct-plus-of-income-on-rent/

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