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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 479,358 933,449 266,955 86,053
Affordable and Available Rental Homes 200,349 329,613 91,591 44,115
Surplus (Deficit) of Affordable and Available Rental Units
At or below EXTREMELY LOW INCOME -279,009 -603,836 -175,364 -41,938
At or below 50% AMI -206,695 -809,788 -131,138 -22,840
Affordable and Available Rental Units per 100 Households at or below Threshold
At or below Extremely Low Income 42 35 34 51
At or below 50% AMI 73 45 67 83
At or below 80% AMI 100 80 99 101
At or below 100% AMI 103 95 103 105
% of Renter Households with Cost Burden
At Extremely Low Income 85% 85% 88% 79%
Extremely Low Income to 50% AMI 71% 81% 79% 67%
51% to 80% AMI 32% 57% 34% 22%
81 to 100% AMI 11% 27% 16% 8%
% of Renter Households with Severe Cost Burden
At Extremely Low Income 71% 71% 78% 63%
Extremely Low Income to 50% AMI 24% 42% 27% 23%
51% to 80% AMI 4% 10% 4% 5%
81 to 100% AMI 1% 4% 2% 1%
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 aaurand@nlihc.org.