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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 North Carolina

North Carolina Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC (Metro) Raleigh-Cary, NC (Metro) Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC (Metro)
Extremely Low Income Households and Available Rentals
Extremely Low Income Renter Households 348,518 74,586 47,030 56,385
Affordable and Available Rental Homes 133,436 22,891 13,868 14,748
Surplus (Deficit) of Affordable and Available Rental Units
At or below EXTREMELY LOW INCOME -215,082 -51,695 -33,162 -41,637
At or below 50% AMI -238,947 -67,419 -37,087 -55,832
Affordable and Available Rental Units per 100 Households at or below Threshold
At or below Extremely Low Income 38 31 29 26
At or below 50% AMI 58 49 54 42
At or below 80% AMI 96 93 105 89
At or below 100% AMI 106 107 107 103
% of Renter Households with Cost Burden
At Extremely Low Income 89 91 93 90
Extremely Low Income to 50% AMI 76 81 78 87
51% to 80% AMI 53 61 59 65
81 to 100% AMI 25 24 17 41
% of Renter Households with Severe Cost Burden
At Extremely Low Income 76 83 81 82
ELI to 50% AMI 36 44 32 49
51% to 80% AMI 7 8 2 7
81 to 100% AMI 2 2 2 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].