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Median rent as a share of household income: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Median rent as a share of household income (%). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Housing cost burden for owners and renters by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-11

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National value: 30.9 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 29.6
RI 29.8
DE 30.3
CT 32.7
NJ 31.6
MD 31
MA 31.2
VT 29.9
NH 29.4

Lowest: 23.8 to 28.5
Group 2: 28.5 to 29.6
Group 3: 29.6 to 30.2
Group 4: 30.2 to 31.4
Highest: 31.4 to 35.5

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	Florida	35.5
2	California	32.9
3	Hawaii	32.8
4	Connecticut	32.7
5	Arizona	32.2
6	Louisiana	31.7
6	Mississippi	31.7
6	Nevada	31.7
9	New Jersey	31.6
9	Oregon	31.6
11	Georgia	31.4
12	South Carolina	31.3
13	Massachusetts	31.2
13	New York	31.2
15	Maryland	31
16	Colorado	30.9
16	Michigan	30.9
18	Texas	30.8
19	Delaware	30.3
19	Washington	30.3
21	Virginia	30.2
22	Tennessee	30.1
22	Utah	30.1
24	North Carolina	30
25	Illinois	29.9
25	Vermont	29.9
27	Alabama	29.8
27	Rhode Island	29.8
29	Maine	29.7
30	District of Columbia	29.6
30	Idaho	29.6
32	Minnesota	29.5
32	Pennsylvania	29.5
32	West Virginia	29.5
35	Montana	29.4
35	New Hampshire	29.4
37	Indiana	29.3
37	Ohio	29.3
39	New Mexico	29
40	Iowa	28.5
40	Kentucky	28.5
42	Oklahoma	28.2
42	Wisconsin	28.2
44	Missouri	28
44	South Dakota	28
46	Arkansas	27.8
47	Nebraska	27.6
48	Alaska	27.2
49	Kansas	27.1
50	Wyoming	25.5
51	North Dakota	23.8

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year estimates, Table B25106: Tenure by household income in the past 12 months by selected monthly owner costs or gross rent as a percentage of household income
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year estimates, Table B25071: Median gross rent as a percentage of household income. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by median rent as a share of household income (%) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year estimates, Table B25106 and B25071: Tenure by household income by selected monthly owner costs or gross rent as a percentage of household income; median gross rent as a percentage of household income; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-11. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-median-rent-as-a-share-of-household-income/

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