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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 New Jersey

New Jersey New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ (Metro) Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD (Metro)
Extremely Low Income Households and Available Rentals
Extremely Low Income Renter Households 296,565 952,817 217,535
Affordable and Available Rental Homes 91,502 325,965 72,130
Surplus (Deficit) of Affordable and Available Rental Units
At or below EXTREMELY LOW INCOME -205,063 -626,852 -145,405
At or below 50% AMI -288,948 -802,460 -152,890
Affordable and Available Rental Units per 100 Households at or below Threshold
At or below Extremely Low Income 31 34 33
At or below 50% AMI 43 45 56
At or below 80% AMI 84 79 92
At or below 100% AMI 94 91 101
% of Renter Households with Cost Burden
At Extremely Low Income 86 85 87
Extremely Low Income to 50% AMI 82 81 83
51% to 80% AMI 54 55 50
81 to 100% AMI 25 31 21
% of Renter Households with Severe Cost Burden
At Extremely Low Income 75 73 73
ELI to 50% AMI 40 42 42
51% to 80% AMI 9 13 8
81 to 100% AMI 4 5 2

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].