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Housing Cost Burden by Income Group

Renter households spending more than 30% of their income on housing costs and utilities are cost burdened; those spending more than half of their income are severely cost burdened.

Affordable and Available Homes per 100 Renter Households

All Gap Data for Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD Pittsburgh, PA
Extremely Low Income Households and Available Rentals
Extremely Low Income Renter Households 429,829 942,054 223,582 84,398
Affordable and Available Rental Homes 168,769 334,716 66,602 40,812
Surplus (Deficit) of Affordable and Available Rental Units
At or below EXTREMELY LOW INCOME -261,060 -607,338 -156,980 -43,586
At or below 50% AMI -223,454 -771,855 -146,428 -22,795
Affordable and Available Rental Units per 100 Households at or below Threshold
At or below Extremely Low Income 39 36 30 48
At or below 50% AMI 69 47 59 84
At or below 80% AMI 98 83 97 98
At or below 100% AMI 102 95 102 101
% of Renter Households with Cost Burden
At Extremely Low Income 84% 85% 87% 79%
Extremely Low Income to 50% AMI 71% 78% 79% 63%
51% to 80% AMI 35% 50% 41% 28%
81 to 100% AMI 11% 27% 13% 9%
% of Renter Households with Severe Cost Burden
At Extremely Low Income 68% 71% 75% 60%
Extremely Low Income to 50% AMI 24% 39% 28% 19%
51% to 80% AMI 5% 8% 5% 7%
81 to 100% AMI 2% 4% 1% 5%
AMI = Area Median Income.
Source: American Community Survey (ACS) and ACS Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS). For more information on the estimates’ margin of error, please contact [email protected].