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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 York

New YorkBuffalo-Cheektowaga, NYNew York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA (Metro)Rochester, NY (Metro)
Extremely Low Income Households and Available Rentals
Extremely Low Income Renter Households 970,882 51,572 949,380 42,494
Affordable and Available Rental Homes 314,942 17,630 296,220 11,279
Surplus (Deficit) of Affordable and Available Rental Units
At or below EXTREMELY LOW INCOME -655,940 -33,942 -653,160 -31,215
At or below 50% AMI -712,820 -18,941 -824,689 -21,330
Affordable and Available Rental Units per 100 Households at or below Threshold
At or below Extremely Low Income 32 34 31 27
At or below 50% AMI 52 76 43 68
At or below 80% AMI 82 97 78 99
At or below 100% AMI 94 99 93 102
% of Renter Households with Cost Burden
At Extremely Low Income 87 86 86 92
Extremely Low Income to 50% AMI 76 73 80 75
51% to 80% AMI 49 28 56 38
81 to 100% AMI 26 12 31 10
% of Renter Households with Severe Cost Burden
At Extremely Low Income 73 69 74 75
ELI to 50% AMI 36 20 41 27
51% to 80% AMI 11 3 12 5
81 to 100% AMI 4 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].