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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 Texas

TexasAustin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TXDallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX (Metro)Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX (Metro)San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX (Metro)
Extremely Low Income Households and Available Rentals
Extremely Low Income Renter Households 904,814 83,965 216,751 214,758 76,837
Affordable and Available Rental Homes 230,166 13,601 34,567 39,931 25,006
Surplus (Deficit) of Affordable and Available Rental Units
At or below EXTREMELY LOW INCOME -674,648 -70,364 -182,184 -174,827 -51,831
At or below 50% AMI -864,338 -87,953 -256,485 -231,780 -77,618
Affordable and Available Rental Units per 100 Households at or below Threshold
At or below Extremely Low Income 25 16 16 19 33
At or below 50% AMI 44 42 37 40 41
At or below 80% AMI 95 97 94 95 98
At or below 100% AMI 104 101 105 106 107
% of Renter Households with Cost Burden
At Extremely Low Income 90 93 93 92 87
Extremely Low Income to 50% AMI 84 85 89 85 86
51% to 80% AMI 49 42 56 51 46
81 to 100% AMI 19 13 21 17 18
% of Renter Households with Severe Cost Burden
At Extremely Low Income 79 87 85 82 74
ELI to 50% AMI 36 30 37 37 40
51% to 80% AMI 5 4 5 6 5
81 to 100% AMI 1 1 1 2 0

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].