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Share of renters paying under $500 a month: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Share of renting households with gross rent under $500 a month (%). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Renter homes by monthly gross rent by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-04

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National value: 5.7 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 5.4 %
RI 13 %
DE 4.6 %
CT 6.5 %
NJ 5.6 %
MD 5.7 %
MA 10.3 %
VT 7 %
NH 6.7 %

Lowest: 1.8 to 4.5 %
Group 2: 4.5 to 5.7 %
Group 3: 5.7 to 7 %
Group 4: 7 to 8.2 %
Highest: 8.2 to 13.3 %

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	West Virginia	13.3
2	Rhode Island	13
3	Mississippi	12.6
4	Maine	11.3
5	Massachusetts	10.3
6	Alabama	10.1
7	South Dakota	10
8	Louisiana	9.4
9	Kentucky	9.1
10	Montana	8.2
10	Pennsylvania	8.2
12	Michigan	8
13	Minnesota	7.8
14	Arkansas	7.7
15	New York	7.4
15	Tennessee	7.4
17	Missouri	7.1
17	New Mexico	7.1
17	Ohio	7.1
20	Iowa	7
20	Vermont	7
22	New Hampshire	6.7
23	North Dakota	6.6
23	Oklahoma	6.6
25	Connecticut	6.5
26	Wyoming	6.3
27	Illinois	6.1
28	Nebraska	5.9
29	Indiana	5.7
29	Maryland	5.7
29	North Carolina	5.7
32	New Jersey	5.6
33	District of Columbia	5.4
33	Kansas	5.4
35	Wisconsin	5.3
36	Alaska	5.2
37	South Carolina	5.1
38	Idaho	4.9
39	Georgia	4.7
40	Delaware	4.6
41	Virginia	4.5
42	Washington	4.4
43	Hawaii	4.2
43	Oregon	4.2
45	Colorado	3.9
46	Texas	3.7
47	California	3.6
47	Florida	3.6
49	Utah	3.2
50	Arizona	2.9
51	Nevada	1.8

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 share of renting households with gross rent under $500 a month (%) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table DP04; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-04. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-under-500/

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