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Housing Cost Burden by Income Group

Renter households spending more than 30% of their income on housing costs and utilities are cost burdened; those spending more than half of their income are severely cost burdened.

Affordable and Available Homes per 100 Renter Households

All Gap Data for Texas

TexasAustin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX (Metro)Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX (Metro)Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX (Metro)San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX (Metro)
Extremely Low Income Households and Available Rentals
Extremely Low Income Renter Households 906,885 76,713 215,838 217,572 76,562
Affordable and Available Rental Homes 227,584 16,284 36,730 33,289 21,224
Surplus (Deficit) of Affordable and Available Rental Units
At or below EXTREMELY LOW INCOME -679,301 -60,429 -179,108 -184,283 -55,338
At or below 50% AMI -847,845 -74,883 -244,497 -230,680 -82,623
Affordable and Available Rental Units per 100 Households at or below Threshold
At or below Extremely Low Income 25 21 17 15 28
At or below 50% AMI 45 46 40 40 37
At or below 80% AMI 92 95 91 91 89
At or below 100% AMI 103 101 104 103 104
% of Renter Households with Cost Burden
At Extremely Low Income 91 92 93 93 88
Extremely Low Income to 50% AMI 84 83 87 84 87
51% to 80% AMI 55 51 60 54 59
81 to 100% AMI 26 17 25 29 26
% of Renter Households with Severe Cost Burden
At Extremely Low Income 79 87 86 83 75
ELI to 50% AMI 37 32 41 37 43
51% to 80% AMI 8 6 8 7 12
81 to 100% AMI 2 2 2 3 2

AMI = Area Median Income.
Source: American Community Survey (ACS) and ACS Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS). For more information on the estimates’ margin of error, please contact [email protected].