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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 (Metro) Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD (Metro) Pittsburgh, PA (Metro)
Extremely Low Income Households and Available Rentals
Extremely Low Income Renter Households 447,362 969,671 232,250 86,742
Affordable and Available Rental Homes 181,825 313,213 79,014 42,654
Surplus (Deficit) of Affordable and Available Rental Units
At or below EXTREMELY LOW INCOME -265,537 -656,458 -153,236 -44,088
At or below 50% AMI -224,020 -802,969 -142,974 -21,259
Affordable and Available Rental Units per 100 Households at or below Threshold
At or below Extremely Low Income 41 32 34 49
At or below 50% AMI 69 46 61 84
At or below 80% AMI 97 80 93 105
At or below 100% AMI 101 93 101 106
% of Renter Households with Cost Burden
At Extremely Low Income 85 86 87 82
Extremely Low Income to 50% AMI 71 78 80 58
51% to 80% AMI 38 54 48 25
81 to 100% AMI 13 27 17 11
% of Renter Households with Severe Cost Burden
At Extremely Low Income 72 74 74 67
ELI to 50% AMI 26 41 31 17
51% to 80% AMI 5 13 6 3
81 to 100% AMI 2 5 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].