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US cities with the lowest rent burden

Compare the typical share of renter household income spent on gross rent.

U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-year estimatesPeriod: 2020–2024 ACS 5-yearRetrieved 2026-10-05T08:15:40+00:00

Median gross rent as a percentage of household income: ACS B25071_001E. Uses Census’s direct renter-household measure, not median rent divided by income for all households. ACS places, including census-designated places, with at least 20,000 residents in the same ACS release. ACS 5-year pooled estimates; margins of error are at the 90% confidence level. Ranks do not imply statistically significant differences. Missing, suppressed, and annotated/top-coded estimates are excluded.

Ranks are competition ranks computed across the full filtered set.

RankNameStateRent as share of incomePopulation
248Crofton CDPMaryland26.6% ±2.3 percentage points29,549
248Birmingham cityMichigan26.6% ±3.0 percentage points21,763
248Farmington Hills cityMichigan26.6% ±1.9 percentage points83,515
248North Amityville CDPNew York26.6% ±13.2 percentage points21,138
248West Fargo cityNorth Dakota26.6% ±2.2 percentage points40,094
248Fairborn cityOhio26.6% ±2.1 percentage points34,534
248Lima cityOhio26.6% ±1.5 percentage points35,010
248Mentor cityOhio26.6% ±3.9 percentage points47,171
248Newark cityOhio26.6% ±1.8 percentage points50,783
248Spanish Fork cityUtah26.6% ±6.7 percentage points44,946
248West Haven cityUtah26.6% ±2.5 percentage points21,563
262Eastern Goleta Valley CDPCalifornia26.7% ±3.1 percentage points28,295
262Carmel cityIndiana26.7% ±2.5 percentage points101,651
262Sioux City cityIowa26.7% ±1.9 percentage points86,101
262O'Fallon cityMissouri26.7% ±2.7 percentage points93,801
262Parsippany CDPNew Jersey26.7% ±2.2 percentage points21,345
262Ridgewood villageNew Jersey26.7% ±3.8 percentage points26,308
262Carlsbad cityNew Mexico26.7% ±1.6 percentage points31,746
262Dickinson cityNorth Dakota26.7% ±2.7 percentage points25,357
262Bixby cityOklahoma26.7% ±2.0 percentage points30,155
262Baldwin boroughPennsylvania26.7% ±6.6 percentage points21,057
262Bartlett cityTennessee26.7% ±4.9 percentage points56,876
262Princeton cityTexas26.7% ±3.8 percentage points25,229
262The Colony cityTexas26.7% ±1.9 percentage points45,454
262Oshkosh cityWisconsin26.7% ±2.1 percentage points66,729
276Sherwood cityArkansas26.8% ±5.5 percentage points33,070
276Dublin cityCalifornia26.8% ±1.9 percentage points70,803
276Erie townColorado26.8% ±3.5 percentage points33,808
276Marion cityIndiana26.8% ±2.2 percentage points27,531
276Gardner cityKansas26.8% ±2.4 percentage points24,526
276Plymouth cityMinnesota26.8% ±1.8 percentage points79,220
276Richfield cityMinnesota26.8% ±3.0 percentage points36,642
276Nixa cityMissouri26.8% ±3.5 percentage points24,836
276Papillion cityNebraska26.8% ±2.9 percentage points25,244
276Westfield townNew Jersey26.8% ±2.3 percentage points31,111
276South Burlington cityVermont26.8% ±3.3 percentage points20,756
276Battle Ground cityWashington26.8% ±3.3 percentage points21,886
276Wauwatosa cityWisconsin26.8% ±2.1 percentage points48,529
289Catalina Foothills CDPArizona26.9% ±2.6 percentage points52,593
289Van Buren cityArkansas26.9% ±2.6 percentage points23,763
289Patterson cityCalifornia26.9% ±3.8 percentage points24,693
289Idaho Falls cityIdaho26.9% ±1.8 percentage points67,725
289Westfield cityIndiana26.9% ±7.1 percentage points54,677
289Bettendorf cityIowa26.9% ±1.5 percentage points39,647
289Overland Park cityKansas26.9% ±0.9 percentage points200,306
289Camp Springs CDPMaryland26.9% ±3.7 percentage points22,544
289Eldersburg CDPMaryland26.9% ±3.6 percentage points31,695
289Eden Prairie cityMinnesota26.9% ±1.8 percentage points63,051
289Morristown townNew Jersey26.9% ±1.2 percentage points20,453
289North Ridgeville cityOhio26.9% ±4.0 percentage points36,627

± figures are the published 90% margin of error; small differences between estimates may not be statistically significant.

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