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Households with a housing-cost burden: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Share of households paying 30% or more of income on housing (%, derived). 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

Download full table CSV Source: U.S. Census Bureau (Table B25106) (opens in a new tab)Source: U.S. Census Bureau (Table B25071) (opens in a new tab)

National value: 33.6 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 39.3 %
RI 35.1 %
DE 29.8 %
CT 36 %
NJ 37.5 %
MD 32.9 %
MA 37.2 %
VT 31.2 %
NH 30.4 %

Lowest: 22.7 to 27.7 %
Group 2: 27.7 to 29.2 %
Group 3: 29.2 to 31.3 %
Group 4: 31.3 to 36 %
Highest: 36 to 42.5 %

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


1	California	42.5
2	Florida	39.9
3	District of Columbia	39.3
3	New York	39.3
5	Hawaii	38
6	New Jersey	37.5
7	Massachusetts	37.2
8	Nevada	36.8
9	Oregon	36.5
10	Colorado	36.2
11	Connecticut	36
12	Washington	35.2
13	Rhode Island	35.1
14	Arizona	34.1
14	Texas	34.1
16	Georgia	33.3
17	Maryland	32.9
18	Illinois	32.1
19	Utah	31.7
20	Louisiana	31.5
21	Montana	31.3
22	Vermont	31.2
23	Virginia	30.8
24	North Carolina	30.7
25	New Hampshire	30.4
26	South Carolina	29.9
27	Delaware	29.8
28	Wyoming	29.7
29	Maine	29.4
30	Idaho	29.3
31	Mississippi	29.2
32	Ohio	28.9
32	Pennsylvania	28.9
32	Tennessee	28.9
35	Minnesota	28.7
35	New Mexico	28.7
37	Michigan	28.6
37	Oklahoma	28.6
39	Alaska	27.9
40	Alabama	27.8
41	Wisconsin	27.7
42	Arkansas	27.6
43	Indiana	27.5
43	Nebraska	27.5
45	Kentucky	27.3
46	Missouri	27.2
47	Kansas	26.9
48	South Dakota	26.4
49	Iowa	26.2
50	West Virginia	23.8
51	North Dakota	22.7

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 share of households paying 30% or more of income on housing (%, derived) (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-share-of-households-paying-30-pct-or-more-of-income-on-housing/

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