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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

PennsylvaniaNew 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 436,857 944,118 227,532 83,185
Affordable and Available Rental Homes 170,239 324,373 70,664 40,287
Surplus (Deficit) of Affordable and Available Rental Units
At or below EXTREMELY LOW INCOME -266,618 -619,745 -156,868 -42,898
At or below 50% AMI -221,744 -805,452 -142,102 -27,071
Affordable and Available Rental Units per 100 Households at or below Threshold
At or below Extremely Low Income 39 34 31 48
At or below 50% AMI 69 45 61 80
At or below 80% AMI 99 80 97 100
At or below 100% AMI 102 94 102 103
% of Renter Households with Cost Burden
At Extremely Low Income 85 86 88 80
Extremely Low Income to 50% AMI 72 80 78 67
51% to 80% AMI 35 56 42 26
81 to 100% AMI 12 29 17 10
% of Renter Households with Severe Cost Burden
At Extremely Low Income 70 71 76 63
ELI to 50% AMI 25 43 30 21
51% to 80% AMI 4 11 5 5
81 to 100% AMI 2 4 1 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].