State or territory · Census 2020–2024
Median rent and rent burden in California
- Median monthly gross rent
- $2,036 ± $5 margin
- Rent burden · 30% or more
- 55.3% ± 0.2 percentage points
- Severe burden · 50% or more
- 28.8% ± 0.2 percentage points
How much income would keep this rent at 30%?
The area’s median gross rent would equal 30% of an annual household income of $81,440. The calculation multiplies monthly rent by 12 and divides by 0.30.
Compare with broader areas
| Area | Median gross rent ± margin | Rent burden | Severe burden |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | $2,036 ± $5 | 55.3% | 28.8% |
| United States | $1,413 ± $2 | 51.1% | 25.9% |
Browse counties in California
- Alameda County$2,357 median gross rent · 50.4% rent burden
- Amador County$1,421 median gross rent · 45.6% rent burden
- Butte County$1,414 median gross rent · 60% rent burden
- Calaveras County$1,625 median gross rent · 59.3% rent burden
- Colusa County$1,157 median gross rent · 54.6% rent burden
- Contra Costa County$2,375 median gross rent · 56.1% rent burden
- Del Norte County$1,233 median gross rent · 58.4% rent burden
- El Dorado County$1,715 median gross rent · 53.5% rent burden
- Fresno County$1,392 median gross rent · 55.5% rent burden
- Glenn County$1,120 median gross rent · 50.5% rent burden
- Humboldt County$1,287 median gross rent · 60.1% rent burden
- Imperial County$1,056 median gross rent · 53% rent burden
- Inyo County$1,189 median gross rent · 35.5% rent burden
- Kern County$1,300 median gross rent · 56.4% rent burden
- Kings County$1,331 median gross rent · 48.7% rent burden
- Lake County$1,368 median gross rent · 61.9% rent burden
- Lassen County$1,000 median gross rent · 42.6% rent burden
- Los Angeles County$1,954 median gross rent · 57.7% rent burden
- Madera County$1,390 median gross rent · 56.8% rent burden
- Marin County$2,668 median gross rent · 55.6% rent burden
- Mariposa County$1,305 median gross rent · 48.5% rent burden
- Mendocino County$1,317 median gross rent · 54.9% rent burden
- Merced County$1,343 median gross rent · 51.9% rent burden
- Modoc County$836 median gross rent · 44.8% rent burden
- Mono County$1,629 median gross rent · 48.7% rent burden
- Monterey County$2,055 median gross rent · 55.6% rent burden
- Napa County$2,237 median gross rent · 54.8% rent burden
- Nevada County$1,677 median gross rent · 57.4% rent burden
- Orange County$2,434 median gross rent · 56.6% rent burden
- Placer County$2,069 median gross rent · 57.9% rent burden
- Plumas County$1,194 median gross rent · 45.2% rent burden
- Riverside County$1,901 median gross rent · 59.4% rent burden
- Sacramento County$1,790 median gross rent · 56.1% rent burden
- San Benito County$1,992 median gross rent · 47.8% rent burden
- San Bernardino County$1,801 median gross rent · 58.5% rent burden
- San Diego County$2,246 median gross rent · 57.8% rent burden
- San Francisco County$2,476 median gross rent · 39.6% rent burden
- San Joaquin County$1,734 median gross rent · 53.9% rent burden
- San Luis Obispo County$1,992 median gross rent · 57.6% rent burden
- San Mateo County$2,922 median gross rent · 48.4% rent burden
- Santa Barbara County$2,131 median gross rent · 57.7% rent burden
- Santa Clara County$2,857 median gross rent · 45% rent burden
- Santa Cruz County$2,264 median gross rent · 51.7% rent burden
- Shasta County$1,317 median gross rent · 53.3% rent burden
- Siskiyou County$1,091 median gross rent · 58.2% rent burden
- Solano County$2,163 median gross rent · 60.2% rent burden
- Sonoma County$2,158 median gross rent · 54.8% rent burden
- Stanislaus County$1,623 median gross rent · 54.1% rent burden
- Sutter County$1,439 median gross rent · 53.2% rent burden
- Tehama County$1,184 median gross rent · 56.1% rent burden
- Trinity County$1,073 median gross rent · 34.5% rent burden
- Tulare County$1,280 median gross rent · 50.5% rent burden
- Tuolumne County$1,302 median gross rent · 59.3% rent burden
- Ventura County$2,317 median gross rent · 58.8% rent burden
- Yolo County$1,857 median gross rent · 59% rent burden
- Yuba County$1,311 median gross rent · 53.7% rent burden
Data and definitions
How to read the estimates
The Census Bureau’s 2020–2024 American Community Survey five-year release provides these survey estimates. America.co matched Census rent tables by geography ID and used the Gazetteer’s representative points to calculate straight-line distance.
- Gross rent includes contract rent and utilities or fuels paid separately. The median describes cash-rent homes surveyed during this period.
- Rent burden means gross rent was at least 30% of household income. Severe rent burden means at least 50%. Both shares use only cash-rent households for which Census could compute the ratio.
- Margins use the Census 90% confidence level. The rent margin is published by Census. The burden margins are approximate and combine the published category margins using the Census sum and proportion formulas. County and ZIP-area pages require at least 100 estimated households with a computed ratio, a rent margin at most 35% of the estimate, and a rent-burden margin of 20 percentage points or less.
- ZIP areas are Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas. A mailing ZIP can differ or have no corresponding Census area. Distances are straight-line distances between representative points.
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