January 28, 2010
Top 10: Counties with Highest Percent of Cost Burdened Renters in 2000
Posted under: Top 10 — Tags: Cost-Burden, Gross Rent, US Census by Bernie L @ 4:17 pm
The Census Bureau defines cost burdened renters as households for whom gross rent is 30% or more of household income. Gross rent is the contract rent plus the estimated average monthly cost of utilities (electricity, gas, water and sewer) and fuels (oil, coal, kerosene, wood, etc.) if these are paid by the renter (or paid for the renter by someone else). Gross rent is intended to eliminate differentials that result from varying practices with respect to the inclusion of utilities and fuels as part of the rental payment. Percentage calculations were suppressed in cases where the denominator of the calculation was less than 10 of the unit that is being described (e.g., households, people, householders, etc). Such areas are represented as having “Insufficient Data” in the map. Denominators for percentage calculations were created by summing all of the component data items in a particular dataset.