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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 443,205 950,673 223,063 85,294
Affordable and Available Rental Homes 166,955 321,001 65,303 43,168
Surplus (Deficit) of Affordable and Available Rental Units
At or below EXTREMELY LOW INCOME -276,250 -629,672 -157,760 -42,126
At or below 50% AMI -229,455 -825,207 -147,574 -28,361
Affordable and Available Rental Units per 100 Households at or below Threshold
At or below Extremely Low Income 38 34 29 51
At or below 50% AMI 68 44 59 80
At or below 80% AMI 99 79 98 100
At or below 100% AMI 102 93 102 103
% of Renter Households with Cost Burden
At Extremely Low Income 84% 85% 86% 78%
Extremely Low Income to 50% AMI 72% 79% 78% 69%
51% to 80% AMI 34% 55% 42% 26%
81 to 100% AMI 11% 28% 18% 5%
% of Renter Households with Severe Cost Burden
At Extremely Low Income 70% 71% 75% 62%
Extremely Low Income to 50% AMI 26% 43% 33% 20%
51% to 80% AMI 4% 11% 5% 3%
81 to 100% AMI 1% 3% 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 [email protected].