This series reports changes in housing affordability for families and individuals (both owners and renters) at different price levels, chances of affordability by demographic characteristic, and reasons why people cannot afford a home.

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Housing Affordability Data Tables

Stats displayed in columns and rows with title, ID, notes, sources and release date. Many tables are in downloadable XLS, CVS and PDF file formats.

Housing Affordability Publications

Official publications released by the U.S. Census Bureau have a report number and often list the lead author(s).

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about Housing Affordability

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Publications

Publication

Who Could Afford to Buy a Home in 2009?

May 2013

The seventh in a series attempting to measure changes in homeownership affordability for families and unrelated individuals (current owners & current renters).

Publication

Who Could Afford to Buy a Home in 2004?

May 2009

This publication is from Housing Affordability 2004

Publication

Who Can Afford to Buy a House in 2002?

July 2007

In 2002, about 56 percent (+/–0.7) of American families could afford to purchase a modestly priced home or condominium in the state where they lived.

Tables

Table

Who Could Afford to Buy a Home in 2009?: Detailed Tables

May 2013

These tables are from Housing Affordability 2009.

Table

Who Could Afford to Buy a Home in 2004?: Detailed Tables

May 2009

These tables are from Housing Affordability 2004.

Table

Who Can Afford to Buy a House in 2002?: Detailed Tables

July 2007

These tables are from Housing Affordability 2002.

News

Press Release

American Housing Survey Statistics for Selected Metropolitan Areas

January 05, 2017

Summary tables from the 2015 American Housing Survey for the 15 largest metropolitan areas and 10 additional metropolitan areas.

Other Subtopics Within 'Housing'

Housing Patterns

Data on residential housing pattern measures, includes dissimilarity, isolation, absolute centralization and spatial proximity indexes.

Housing Vacancies

Housing vacancy data from the Decennial Census and American Community Survey (ACS) are available on American FactFinder.

New Housing (Construction)

Construction covers national and regional data on the number of new housing units authorized by building permits.

Rental Housing

Housing inventory estimates and characteristics of renter occupied housing units are available for all levels all geography down to the Census tract level.

Residential Financing

Mortgage data includes: financial characteristics of housing units with and without a mortgage, mortgage status by age of householder, and more.