B25071. Median Gross Rent as a Percentage of Household Income in the Past 12 Months from the American Community Survey Summary File: 5-Year Estimates, 2015-2019 database shown in Percent Date Type: Year; Country: USA; Demographic Indicator: Median Gross Rent as a Percentage of Household Income Sage Data. Sage Publishing Ltd Sage Data [electronic resource]

Corporate Author: United States Census Bureau
Published: Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, Inc. 2025

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Presents an estimate of the median percentage the gross rent represents of household income in the 12 months prior to when the survey was conducted for renter-occupied housing units paying cash rent in the United States. Estimates are reported for specified geographic areas. Gross rent is the contract rent (rent agreed to or contracted) plus the estimated average monthly cost of utilities (electricity, gas, and water and sewer) and fuels (oil, coal, kerosene, wood, etc.) if these are paid by the renter (or paid for the renter by someone else). Renter units occupied without payment of rent are shown separately as "No rent paid" in the tabulations. The measure is intended to remove differentials resulting from varying practices for including utility and fuel costs in the rental payment, and provides an indication of housing affordability by geographic area. The dollar values presented are inflated to the latest year's dollar values by multiplying by a factor equal to the average annual Consumer Price Index (CPI-U-RS) factor for the current year, divided by the average annual CPI-U-RS factor for the earlier/earliest year. The median divides the total frequency distribution into two equal parts: one-half of the cases falling below the median and one-half above the median. The American Community Survey (ACS) conducted by the US Census Bureau provides estimates of the characteristics of the population over a specific time period. The ACS collects data from the 50 states, Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico, where it is called the Puerto Rico Community Survey. It is a continuous survey, in which each month a sample of housing unit addresses receives a questionnaire, with approximately 3.5 million addresses surveyed each year. Each year the survey produces data pooled to produce 1-year, 3-year, and 5-year estimates for geographic areas in the US and Puerto Rico, ranging from neighborhoods to congressional districts to the entire nation. Data for each release of the 5-year estimates were collected over a 5-year period ending December 31 of the reference year (eg, data in the 2019 5-year estimates were collected January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2019). The statistics reported represent the characteristics of the population for the entire period vs a specific year within that period. The 5-year estimates are published for areas with populations of all sizes and are the most reliable and precise of the ACS period estimates as well as the most comprehensive, albeit the least current. (The 1-year and 3-year estimates provide data on areas with populations of 65,000+ and 20,000+, respectively. Note that the ACS 3-year estimates were discontinued with the 2011-2013 release.) The ACS estimates provide information about the social and economic needs of communities and are used to help determine how billions in federal and state funds are distributed each year. It is conducted under the authority of Title 13, United States Code, Sections 141 and 193.

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9781544332048 Sage Data CORE

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Statistical data with bibliographic citation and abstract.

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