ACS Table for Severe Housing Burden

Check out Table B25070 Gross rent as a percentage of household income. factfinder.census.gov/.../B25070

Thank you. Is there a table for this by poverty level?

There is another data set you might want to look at to supplement the ACS table. This is the Consolidated Planning data set, with is a recompilation of ACS data done for HUD. There are a number of tables that report whether households spend more than 30% and 50% of income on housing costs. Renters vs owners is one of the primary distinctions made in the data. While poverty level is not used as a parameter, percentage of area median income (which differs from ACS median household income) is used. Table 11 reports rent burden for households earning less than 20% of AMI, which gets close to poverty level in my region (Boston) and might even be below in yours.

www.huduser.gov/.../cp.html

There is another data set you might want to look at to supplement the ACS table. This is the Consolidated Planning data set, with is a recompilation of ACS data done for HUD. There are a number of tables that report whether households spend more than 30% and 50% of income on housing costs. Renters vs owners is one of the primary distinctions made in the data. While poverty level is not used as a parameter, percentage of area median income (which differs from ACS median household income) is used. Table 11 reports rent burden for households earning less than 20% of AMI, which gets close to poverty level in my region (Boston) and might even be below in yours.

www.huduser.gov/.../cp.html