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Homeowners with a housing-cost burden: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Share of homeowners paying 30% or more of income on housing (%, derived). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Housing cost burden for owners and renters by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

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Data last updated
2026-11-11
Download full table CSVSource: U.S. Census Bureau (Table B25106) (opens in a new tab)Source: U.S. Census Bureau (Table B25071) (opens in a new tab)

National value: 24.4 (United States).

Washington: 26.4Idaho: 21.8Montana: 24.3North Dakota: 15.7Minnesota: 21.3Michigan: 21Ohio: 20.1Pennsylvania: 20.6New York: 28.9Vermont: 24.7New Hampshire: 23.7Maine: 23Arizona: 24.6California: 32.6New Mexico: 21Texas: 24.3Louisiana: 22.2Mississippi: 21Alabama: 19.9Florida: 30.3Georgia: 24South Carolina: 21.9North Carolina: 21.8Virginia: 22.1District of Columbia: 24.3Maryland: 24.1Delaware: 23.1New Jersey: 29.2Connecticut: 26.7Rhode Island: 27.8Massachusetts: 28.5Oregon: 27.3Utah: 23.6Wyoming: 24.9Nevada: 26.9Colorado: 28.2South Dakota: 17.6Nebraska: 19.2Kansas: 19.7Oklahoma: 20.3Iowa: 18.6Missouri: 19.6Wisconsin: 19.7Illinois: 24.2Kentucky: 19.4Arkansas: 20Tennessee: 19.5West Virginia: 16.6Indiana: 19.5Alaska: 20.8Hawaii: 28.4

Small states, hard to see on the map:

  • Lowest: 15.7 to 19.7 %
  • Group 2: 19.7 to 21.3 %
  • Group 3: 21.3 to 24 %
  • Group 4: 24 to 26.7 %
  • Highest: 26.7 to 32.6 %
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. The ranked value is itself derived; see the source table for the method. Values are as published in the source table.

1California32.6
2Florida30.3
3New Jersey29.2
4New York28.9
5Massachusetts28.5
6Hawaii28.4
7Colorado28.2
8Rhode Island27.8
9Oregon27.3
10Nevada26.9
11Connecticut26.7
12Washington26.4
13Wyoming24.9
14Vermont24.7
15Arizona24.6
16District of Columbia24.3
16Montana24.3
16Texas24.3
19Illinois24.2
20Maryland24.1
21Georgia24
22New Hampshire23.7
23Utah23.6
24Delaware23.1
25Maine23
26Louisiana22.2
27Virginia22.1
28South Carolina21.9
29Idaho21.8
29North Carolina21.8
31Minnesota21.3
32Michigan21
32Mississippi21
32New Mexico21
35Alaska20.8
36Pennsylvania20.6
37Oklahoma20.3
38Ohio20.1
39Arkansas20
40Alabama19.9
41Kansas19.7
41Wisconsin19.7
43Missouri19.6
44Indiana19.5
44Tennessee19.5
46Kentucky19.4
47Nebraska19.2
48Iowa18.6
49South Dakota17.6
50West Virginia16.6
51North Dakota15.7

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year estimates, Table B25106: Tenure by household income in the past 12 months by selected monthly owner costs or gross rent as a percentage of household income
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year estimates, Table B25071: Median gross rent as a percentage of household income. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by share of homeowners paying 30% or more of income on housing (%, derived) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year estimates, Table B25106 and B25071: Tenure by household income by selected monthly owner costs or gross rent as a percentage of household income; median gross rent as a percentage of household income; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-11. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-share-of-homeowners-paying-30-pct-or-more-of-income-on-housing/

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