The median rent paid in Newark — $ 981 a month, continues to rise, with 57 percent of households spending more than 30 percent of their household income on rent.
Not exact matches
In Los Angeles,
rents would rise 4.9 %, or $ 52 monthly, on top of the expected increase of 3 %, or $ 82 monthly, for those
paying the city's
median rent of $ 2,746.
«That means a
median renter would
pay an additional $ 6,600 to $ 10,500 in
rent over ten years.»
In Brooklyn, people on average would spend 67.4 percent of their
pay on
rent, but buying the
median priced home at $ 640,000 would require 110.9 percent of
pay.
With relatively low
median wages, some of the
rent growth in Austin is expected from an increase in high -
paid workers who will
rent more expensive apartments, pulling the
median rent up.
In the last quarter of 2015, Manhattan residents
paid a
median $ 4,374 — the highest average
rent in the nation, according to Marcus & Millichap.
Home buyers who purchase a
median - priced property in these areas could enjoy much lower housing costs than those who
pay rent.
With a
median list price of $ 163,840 and
median rent of $ 1,162, Columbus has the fourth - highest rental yield and takes less than 12 years to
pay off the property.
(1) employment growth, sourced from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Economic Summaries in August 2016, with the percentage representing the employment change from June 2015 to June 2016 in each city; (2) population growth, based on and sourced from the 2014 and 2015 Census, with the percentage representing the change in population from 2014 to 2015; (3) increase in home values, based on Zillow Home Value, with the percentage representing the change in
median home values for single - family homes from June 2015 to June 2016, sourced August 2016; (4) years to
pay off property, which was based using the
median home value for July 2016 and the
median rent for a single - family residence for July 2016, both sourced from Zillow;
median rent was multiplied by 12 to obtain yearly
rent and then home value was divided by yearly
rent to determine how many years it would take for the home to be
paid off from rental income using current home values and
rent prices for each city.
Most recently, in a report published in January by researchers from McGill University, an analysis of New York City, Newark and New Jersey between September 2014 and August 2017 found that the
median tenant within the study's area was
paying $ 380 more in
rent due to a decrease in housing stock caused by Airbnb's operations.
The
median rent is $ 1,849 so it's not a cheap place to
rent, but just like anything else you get what you
pay for.
The
median gross
rent is just $ 941, and if you factor in maintenance, taxes, and homeowners insurance, it's far cheaper to
rent even when you're
paying for Colorado Renters Insurance as well.
Home buyers who purchase a
median - priced property in these areas could enjoy much lower housing costs than those who
pay rent.
With an estimated
median home value of $ 111,000 and a
median gross
rent hovering around $ 900, you can easily settle in without worrying about how you're going to
pay for it.
Net effective
rent, or what tenants
paid after incentives are subtracted, fell 3.8 percent to a
median of $ 3,168.
Yet the
median income in Old West Austin is $ 73,000 and renters may be willing and able to
pay much more
rent for apartments or condos that you choose to upgrade.
Using
median household income data for Phoenix, we can calculate the fraction of income the
median household would use to
pay rent at the
median monthly gross
rent rate.
The fraction of
median Phoenix household income required to
pay median monthly gross
rent peaked in 2012 (relative to the 2005 series origin) at 21.87 %.
Gross rental yield is based on average market
rents paid for a unit with the same number of bedrooms as the
median owner occupied home.
Home buyers who purchase a
median - priced property in these areas could enjoy much lower housing costs than those who
pay rent.
Renters in Western states
pay the most ($ 1,100
median rent), followed by those in the Northeast ($ 1,000
median rent), Southwest ($ 875), Southeast ($ 800) and Midwest ($ 714).
In 2017, the Census Bureau couldn't even locate enough dilapidated apartments to count — but did find a
median asking
rent of $ 1,875, 30 % higher than what a typical existing tenant
pays.
The average
rent of $ 1,569 in Cook County requires about 31.6 percent of the average person's
pay, compared with 32.4 percent for house payments on the
median home priced at $ 207,800.
Tennessee families
pay just under $ 200 less a month than the national
median for
rent, and the state's
median home listing price is $ 30,000 lower than the national
median.
However, it's still $ 146 more expensive to
rent than
pay the monthly mortgage on a home with a
median list price of $ 167,900.
With relatively low
median wages, some of the
rent growth in Austin is expected from an increase in high -
paid workers who will
rent more expensive apartments, pulling the
median rent up.
And statewide, it costs $ 349 more per month to
rent in Maryland than to
pay the monthly mortgage on a home with a
median list price of $ 299,900.
Most of the
rent increase in Detroit would be caused by the influx of Amazon workers with much higher wages than the current area
median and the ability of Amazon workers to
pay more than the metro's current
median rent.
While the state's
median income of $ 49,290 is below the $ 52,047 national
median, families earning this amount and
renting at a typical price could still keep housing costs fairly low at 27 percent of their
pay, which is less than the 30 percent - of - income
rent standard that most rental housing programs and personal finance experts use.