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Rental vacancy rate: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Rental vacancy rate. All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Housing units and vacancy rates by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

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

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National value: 5.9 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 7.8 %
RI 3.7 %
DE 4.9 %
CT 4.4 %
NJ 3.7 %
MD 5.2 %
MA 4.2 %
VT 4.3 %
NH 3.4 %

Lowest: 3.4 to 4.3 %
Group 2: 4.3 to 4.9 %
Group 3: 4.9 to 6 %
Group 4: 6 to 7.2 %
Highest: 7.2 to 9.8 %

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	Florida	9.8
2	Texas	9.1
3	Hawaii	8.5
4	North Carolina	8.1
5	Alabama	8
6	Tennessee	7.9
7	District of Columbia	7.8
7	Nevada	7.8
9	Louisiana	7.7
10	West Virginia	7.5
11	Georgia	7.2
12	North Dakota	6.9
13	Iowa	6.7
13	Mississippi	6.7
13	New Mexico	6.7
13	South Carolina	6.7
17	Michigan	6.5
18	Colorado	6.2
19	South Dakota	6.1
20	Arizona	6
20	Arkansas	6
22	Oregon	5.9
23	Utah	5.8
24	Alaska	5.7
25	Oklahoma	5.4
26	Maryland	5.2
27	Indiana	5.1
27	Minnesota	5.1
29	Ohio	5
29	Washington	5
31	Delaware	4.9
31	Missouri	4.9
33	Pennsylvania	4.8
33	Wyoming	4.8
35	Montana	4.7
36	Nebraska	4.6
37	California	4.5
37	Virginia	4.5
39	Connecticut	4.4
39	Wisconsin	4.4
41	Kansas	4.3
41	Vermont	4.3
43	Massachusetts	4.2
44	Kentucky	4
45	Idaho	3.9
45	Illinois	3.9
47	New Jersey	3.7
47	New York	3.7
47	Rhode Island	3.7
50	Maine	3.6
51	New Hampshire	3.4

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 rental vacancy rate (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table DP04; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-10-29. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-rental-vacancy-rate/

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