Number of cost burdened renters in the U.S. 2019, by state
In 2019, there were 20.3 million cost-burdened renter households in the United States. A household is considered to be housing cost-burdened when the housing costs exceed 30 percent of the family income. California had three million cost-burdened renter households, which accounted for 51.6 percent of all renter households in the state.
