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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 323,284 949,380 228,669
Affordable and Available Rental Homes 98,753 296,220 65,738
Surplus (Deficit) of Affordable and Available Rental Units
At or below EXTREMELY LOW INCOME -224,531 -653,160 -162,931
At or below 50% AMI -297,635 -824,689 -153,794
Affordable and Available Rental Units per 100 Households at or below Threshold
At or below Extremely Low Income 31 31 29
At or below 50% AMI 43 43 58
At or below 80% AMI 87 78 96
At or below 100% AMI 97 93 101
% of Renter Households with Cost Burden
At Extremely Low Income 85 86 87
Extremely Low Income to 50% AMI 83 80 76
51% to 80% AMI 51 56 42
81 to 100% AMI 22 31 11
% of Renter Households with Severe Cost Burden
At Extremely Low Income 74 74 74
ELI to 50% AMI 38 41 31
51% to 80% AMI 7 12 6
81 to 100% AMI 1 4 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].