To a student fresh out of college, San Francisco's
median rent rate of $ 3,200 per month (three times higher than the national average!)
Not exact matches
«We also included population, income and poverty data from the U.S. Census Bureau, unemployment
rates from various sources,
median home listing prices from Zillow, and
median monthly
rent costs from Trulia,» the study says.
It is no secret that San Francisco currently has the highest
rent in the country with a
median monthly
rate of $ 3,500 per month.
In other words, the
median asking
rent is $ 184 higher today than it would be if rental
rates had risen only as fast as inflation over the past two decades.
With an extremely favorable
rent to
median home price ratio it is possible for buy and hold investors to achieve superior
rates of return.
With the unemployment
rate as low as it is, a
median home value of about $ 276,000, and a
median gross
rent of about $ 1,100, living in Toms River can be good for your financial stability, especially as opposed to living in a city like Hoboken, where those costs are nearly twice as high.
A typical borrower with excellent credit (750 +), who
rents a home, and has an annual income around the national
median income of $ 52,000, can expect interest
rates ranging from 8.52 % to 13.48 % APR..
With the unemployment
rate as low as it is, a
median home value of about $ 276,000, and a
median gross
rent of about $ 1,100, living in Toms River can be good for your financial stability, especially as opposed to living in a city like Hoboken, where those costs are nearly twice as high.
The main drivers in our model include current
median home prices and effective
rents, mortgage
rates, insurance costs, maintenance costs, taxes, and opportunity costs of committed capital such as down payment and closing costs.
For the report, RealtyTrac analyzed
median sales prices for single family homes and condos and average fair market
rents for three bedroom properties, along with unemployment
rates and demographic trends in 516 U.S. counties with a combined population of 236 million people — 76 percent of the total U.S. population.
Monthly mortgage
rates were calculated based on the
median listed homes on realtor.com (assuming a 20 percent down payment) and the
median rent for the county.
The
median rent more accurately depicts rental
rates in the middle of the distribution of
rents and is thus preferred in the analysis below.
Data is also available below for Phoenix rental vacancy
rates, Phoenix
rent as a percent of
median income and the fraction of renters in Phoenix.
Miami is the metro where market -
rate apartment renters struggle the most to cover housing costs, as the
median rent - to - income ratio reaches 28.8 %.
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.
This
median rent - to - income ratio for households living in market -
rate properties has held remarkably steady throughout this economic cycle.
Americans making the national
median income ($ 53,216) should currently expect to spend nearly 30 percent of their monthly income on
rent, the highest
rate ever.
Memphis, Tenn — The
median home value is 46 percent below the national
median (see mortgage
rates in this area), and the average apartment
rent of $ 709 per month is 21 percent below the U.S. average.
The
median home value is 46 % below the national
median (see mortgage
rates in this area), and the average apartment
rent of $ 709 per month is 21 % below the U.S. average.
To do this, we start with reliable
median rent statistics from the Census Bureau, then extrapolate them forward to the current month using a growth
rate calculated from our listing data.
To pinpoint these promising places, we started with the nation's 75 largest metropolitan areas and ranked them based on average monthly
rent,
median household income for renters, residential rental vacancy
rate and overall cost of living.