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Renters paying $3,000 or more a month: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Share of renting households with gross rent $3,000 or more 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: 8.4 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 18.9 %
RI 5.4 %
DE 2.5 %
CT 8.8 %
NJ 12.2 %
MD 7.9 %
MA 17.8 %
VT 5.7 %
NH 5.8 %

Lowest: 0.8 to 1.3 %
Group 2: 1.3 to 2.5 %
Group 3: 2.5 to 3.9 %
Group 4: 3.9 to 8.8 %
Highest: 8.8 to 23.2 %

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	Hawaii	23.2
2	California	21.6
3	District of Columbia	18.9
4	Massachusetts	17.8
5	New York	15.9
6	New Jersey	12.2
7	Washington	11.9
8	Colorado	9.9
9	Virginia	9.6
10	Florida	9
11	Connecticut	8.8
12	Maryland	7.9
13	Illinois	6.4
14	New Hampshire	5.8
15	Vermont	5.7
16	Rhode Island	5.4
17	Arizona	5.2
18	Oregon	4.6
19	Nevada	4
19	Utah	4
21	Georgia	3.9
21	Texas	3.9
23	Maine	3.8
24	Minnesota	3.6
24	Pennsylvania	3.6
24	Wyoming	3.6
27	South Carolina	3.2
28	North Carolina	3
29	Montana	2.9
30	Tennessee	2.6
31	Delaware	2.5
32	Idaho	2.4
33	Michigan	2.1
34	Wisconsin	2
35	Alaska	1.8
35	Missouri	1.8
35	New Mexico	1.8
38	Nebraska	1.6
38	Ohio	1.6
40	Kansas	1.5
41	Oklahoma	1.3
42	Arkansas	1.2
42	Indiana	1.2
42	Iowa	1.2
42	Kentucky	1.2
42	West Virginia	1.2
47	Alabama	1.1
47	Louisiana	1.1
47	North Dakota	1.1
50	South Dakota	0.9
51	Mississippi	0.8

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 $3,000 or more 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-3000-or-more/

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