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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 Texas

Texas Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX (Metro) Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX (Metro) Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX (Metro) San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX (Metro)
Extremely Low Income Households and Available Rentals
Extremely Low Income Renter Households 887,927 81,706 210,313 229,774 70,382
Affordable and Available Rental Homes 221,960 12,984 30,417 37,773 18,455
Surplus (Deficit) of Affordable and Available Rental Units
At or below EXTREMELY LOW INCOME -665,967 -68,722 -179,896 -192,001 -51,927
At or below 50% AMI -894,858 -104,459 -269,587 -246,433 -77,399
Affordable and Available Rental Units per 100 Households at or below Threshold
At or below Extremely Low Income 25 16 14 16 26
At or below 50% AMI 41 33 32 37 41
At or below 80% AMI 91 97 87 87 95
At or below 100% AMI 104 104 103 105 109
% of Renter Households with Cost Burden
At Extremely Low Income 91 94 94 94 89
Extremely Low Income to 50% AMI 86 92 89 89 85
51% to 80% AMI 59 59 64 58 60
81 to 100% AMI 28 21 35 27 26
% of Renter Households with Severe Cost Burden
At Extremely Low Income 81 88 87 85 77
ELI to 50% AMI 42 39 46 45 45
51% to 80% AMI 9 4 11 11 6
81 to 100% AMI 2 3 2 1 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].