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Renters paying $1,500–1,999 a month: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Share of renting households with gross rent of $1,500–1,999 a month (%). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Renter homes by monthly gross rent by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-04

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National value: 22.9 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 19.9 %
RI 25.6 %
DE 32.4 %
CT 25.7 %
NJ 25.9 %
MD 28.7 %
MA 17.6 %
VT 19.4 %
NH 28.2 %

Lowest: 10.4 to 16.1 %
Group 2: 16.1 to 19.6 %
Group 3: 19.6 to 23.7 %
Group 4: 23.7 to 28.5 %
Highest: 28.5 to 32.4 %

The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. Values are as published in the source table.


1	Delaware	32.4
2	Nevada	31.6
3	Utah	31.4
4	Oregon	31.1
5	Alaska	30.7
6	Arizona	30.1
7	Colorado	29.1
8	Florida	28.7
8	Maryland	28.7
8	Texas	28.7
11	Georgia	28.5
12	New Hampshire	28.2
13	Idaho	28.1
14	New Jersey	25.9
15	North Carolina	25.8
16	Connecticut	25.7
16	Washington	25.7
18	Rhode Island	25.6
19	South Carolina	24.9
20	Virginia	24.6
21	Tennessee	23.7
22	Minnesota	23.4
23	Pennsylvania	22.6
24	Illinois	21.8
25	Hawaii	21.5
25	Maine	21.5
27	Michigan	20.3
28	Wisconsin	20.2
29	New York	20.1
30	District of Columbia	19.9
31	California	19.6
32	Vermont	19.4
33	Montana	18.9
34	Missouri	18.1
34	Ohio	18.1
36	Indiana	17.9
37	Nebraska	17.7
38	Massachusetts	17.6
39	New Mexico	17.4
40	South Dakota	17.2
41	Kansas	16.1
42	Wyoming	15.3
43	Oklahoma	15.1
44	Alabama	15
44	Arkansas	15
44	Louisiana	15
47	Kentucky	14
48	Mississippi	13.3
49	Iowa	12
50	North Dakota	11.4
51	West Virginia	10.4

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table DP04: Selected Housing Characteristics. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by share of renting households with gross rent of $1,500–1,999 a month (%) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table DP04; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-04. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-1500-to-1999/

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