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Lower-income housing-cost burden: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Share of lower-income households paying 30% or more 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.

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Data last updated: 2026-11-11

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National value: 80.6 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 85.1 %
RI 81.9 %
DE 80.5 %
CT 88.6 %
NJ 89.7 %
MD 88 %
MA 83.5 %
VT 83.6 %
NH 85.6 %

Lowest: 63.2 to 75 %
Group 2: 75 to 77.6 %
Group 3: 77.6 to 81.1 %
Group 4: 81.1 to 85.1 %
Highest: 85.1 to 89.7 %

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	New Jersey	89.7
2	California	89.2
3	Connecticut	88.6
4	Maryland	88
5	Nevada	86.9
6	New York	86.4
7	Colorado	85.7
8	New Hampshire	85.6
9	Oregon	85.5
9	Washington	85.5
11	District of Columbia	85.1
12	Illinois	84.2
13	Vermont	83.6
14	Hawaii	83.5
14	Massachusetts	83.5
16	Florida	83.3
17	Utah	83.2
18	Rhode Island	81.9
18	Texas	81.9
20	Minnesota	81.7
21	Wisconsin	81.1
22	Virginia	80.6
23	Delaware	80.5
24	Nebraska	80.3
25	Arizona	80.1
26	Georgia	79.4
27	Ohio	79.3
28	Pennsylvania	78.5
29	Michigan	78
30	Kansas	77.9
31	Indiana	77.6
32	Iowa	77.4
33	South Dakota	77.2
34	Idaho	76.5
34	North Carolina	76.5
36	Alaska	76.3
37	North Dakota	76.1
38	Missouri	75.8
39	Wyoming	75.7
40	Maine	75.2
41	Montana	75
42	South Carolina	73.6
43	Louisiana	73.3
43	Oklahoma	73.3
45	Tennessee	71.9
46	Arkansas	71.7
47	New Mexico	70.6
48	Alabama	69.8
49	Kentucky	69
50	Mississippi	67.6
51	West Virginia	63.2

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 lower-income households paying 30% or more 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-lower-income-households-paying-30-pct-or-more-on-housing/

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