Rental Housing Finance Survey (RHFS)
The Rental Housing Finance Survey provides a current and continuous measure of financial, mortgage, and property characteristics of rental housing properties in the United States. The survey focuses on the financing of rental housing properties, with emphasis on new mortgages, refinanced mortgages, or similar devices such as deeds of trust or land contracts, and the characteristics of debt originations. RHFS included single-family residential and multifamily residential properties with at least one housing unit intended for rent. Data collection was conducted from June through November in 2015, 2018, 2021, and 2024.
All queries to the Census Data API now require an API key. Please cut and paste the API Calls, Example Calls, Variables, Examples, and Supported Geography below into your web browser and replace YOUR_KEY_GOES_HERE with your personal API Key.
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2024
- API Call: api.census.gov/data/2024/rhfs?key=YOUR_KEY_GOES_HERE
- Geography: api.census.gov/data/2024/rhfs/geography.html?key=YOUR_KEY_GOES_HERE
- Variables: api.census.gov/data/2024/rhfs/variables.html?key=YOUR_KEY_GOES_HERE
- Example Call: Total Operational Expenses Per Housing Unit in 2024
api.census.gov/data/2024/rhfs?get=TBL_NAME,SUBTABLE_L1,CHARACTERISTIC,FGSZ_NAME,BYGROUP,BYGROUP_VALUE,ESTIMATE_PROPERTIES,MOE_PROPERTIES&TABLE_CODE=4&FGSZ=0&BGR=1&ucgid=0100000US&key=YOUR_KEY_GOES_HERE
For detailed information about the values available, please see Technical Information for RHFS – www.census.gov/programs-surveys/rhfs/technical-documentation.html.