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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 JerseyNew York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA (Metro)Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD (Metro)
Extremely Low Income Households and Available Rentals
Extremely Low Income Renter Households 306,253 969,671 232,250
Affordable and Available Rental Homes 91,778 313,213 79,014
Surplus (Deficit) of Affordable and Available Rental Units
At or below EXTREMELY LOW INCOME -214,475 -656,458 -153,236
At or below 50% AMI -276,687 -802,969 -142,974
Affordable and Available Rental Units per 100 Households at or below Threshold
At or below Extremely Low Income 30 32 34
At or below 50% AMI 46 46 61
At or below 80% AMI 87 80 93
At or below 100% AMI 97 93 101
% of Renter Households with Cost Burden
At Extremely Low Income 86 86 87
Extremely Low Income to 50% AMI 83 78 80
51% to 80% AMI 50 54 48
81 to 100% AMI 23 27 17
% of Renter Households with Severe Cost Burden
At Extremely Low Income 74 74 74
ELI to 50% AMI 40 41 31
51% to 80% AMI 7 13 6
81 to 100% AMI 3 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].