Scene 9 of 19, Whether rent burden rises with deprivation depends on the comparison. Step 1 of 3, All renter households.
Census tracts, renter households with a computed burden
Whether rent burden rises with deprivation depends on the comparison Renter burden is 44.4% in the least deprived tenth of tracts and 47.6% in the most deprived, while owner burden is 25.5% in the least deprived tenth and 18.3% in the ninth
Share paying more than 30% of income (%)
Renter households Owner households 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Area Deprivation Index tenth of tracts (1 = least deprived, 10 = most deprived) 20 30 40 50 Step 1 of 3 · All renter households
Pooled across the nation, the renter share paying more than 30% 30% percent of household income Estimand HUD's line for a housing cost burden: housing costs above this share of household income Weights none (definition) Population households in the HUD CHAS tabulation Period 2018 to 2022 Source HUD CHAS housing affordability 44.4% (95% CI 41.9% to 46.7%)44.4% percent of renter households with housing costs above 30% of income Estimand pooled share of the tenure's households with the burden over tracts in the tenth, bootstrap over counties Interval 95% CI 41.9% to 46.7% n 8,208 tracts Weights households of the tenure with a computed burden Population renter households in tracts with an Area Deprivation Index (tenths hold near-equal numbers of tracts; tracts with equal ranks stay together), least deprived tenth Period 2018 to 2022; Area Deprivation Index 2023 Source HUD CHAS housing affordability 47.6% (95% CI 46.6% to 48.4%)47.6% percent of renter households with housing costs above 30% of income Estimand pooled share of the tenure's households with the burden over tracts in the tenth, bootstrap over counties Interval 95% CI 46.6% to 48.4% n 8,207 tracts Weights households of the tenure with a computed burden Population renter households in tracts with an Area Deprivation Index (tenths hold near-equal numbers of tracts; tracts with equal ranks stay together), most deprived tenth Period 2018 to 2022; Area Deprivation Index 2023 Source HUD CHAS housing affordability
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Whether rent burden rises with deprivation depends on the comparison Scene 9 of 19, step 1 of 3: All renter households. Census tracts, renter households with a computed burden.
What to say The panels are different comparisons, not a change in the data. The third panel measures each tract against its county, so its axis is in points of deviation. Gross rent and family income are inside the index, so the comparison sorts a ratio partly on its own parts.
About the chart Renter burden is 44.4% in the least deprived tenth of tracts and 47.6% in the most deprived, while owner burden is 25.5% in the least deprived tenth and 18.3% in the ninth
The renter line stays within 3.6 points across the ten tenths with no linear trend, and the owner line is higher in the least deprived tenth than in the ninth and turns up in the most deprived tenth. Points are pooled shares with 95% intervals from a bootstrap over counties.
The Area Deprivation Index is built partly from median home value, median gross rent and median monthly mortgage cost, so it ranks tracts with costly housing as less deprived and a burden gradient against it is partly mechanical. The index also understates deprivation in high-cost cities. Tenths hold near-equal numbers of tracts (tracts with equal ranks stay in one tenth), not equal numbers of households. 82,786 tracts have an index and 1,624 do not and are left out. Each point weights tracts by the households behind the share, and a tract share rests on a few households in a small tract. Across all the tracts with an index, 45.5% of renter households and 20.8% of owner households pay more than 30% of income, and 69.0% of low-income renter households do. In the third tab the county level is the household-weighted mean of the tract shares of the tenure across the county's tracts that have an index, so a county with one such tract adds no deviation. The slope is the within-county slope of the tract share on the index national rank with a separate baseline for each county, per 10 percentile points. Source HUD CHAS (American Community Survey 2018-2022 special tabulation) and Area Deprivation Index 2023 (built on ACS 2019-2023); shares pooled over tracts and weighted by households, bootstrap over counties, survey-based estimates with no margin of error published for the shares
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