State or territory · Census 2020–2024
Median rent and rent burden in Washington
- Median monthly gross rent
- $1,760 ± $7 margin
- Rent burden · 30% or more
- 49.9% ± 0.4 percentage points
- Severe burden · 50% or more
- 23.5% ± 0.3 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 $70,400. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | $1,760 ± $7 | 49.9% | 23.5% |
| United States | $1,413 ± $2 | 51.1% | 25.9% |
Browse counties in Washington
- Adams County$877 median gross rent · 46.9% rent burden
- Asotin County$1,043 median gross rent · 43.8% rent burden
- Benton County$1,306 median gross rent · 48.2% rent burden
- Chelan County$1,226 median gross rent · 41.5% rent burden
- Clallam County$1,152 median gross rent · 51.7% rent burden
- Clark County$1,748 median gross rent · 50.7% rent burden
- Columbia County$985 median gross rent · 45.8% rent burden
- Cowlitz County$1,206 median gross rent · 49.3% rent burden
- Douglas County$1,305 median gross rent · 45.9% rent burden
- Ferry County$663 median gross rent · 42.3% rent burden
- Franklin County$1,198 median gross rent · 48.1% rent burden
- Grant County$1,116 median gross rent · 43% rent burden
- Grays Harbor County$1,062 median gross rent · 48.9% rent burden
- Island County$1,662 median gross rent · 53.7% rent burden
- Jefferson County$1,522 median gross rent · 48.1% rent burden
- King County$2,092 median gross rent · 46.8% rent burden
- Kitsap County$1,822 median gross rent · 52.8% rent burden
- Kittitas County$1,341 median gross rent · 58% rent burden
- Klickitat County$1,105 median gross rent · 56.4% rent burden
- Lewis County$1,097 median gross rent · 50.1% rent burden
- Lincoln County$883 median gross rent · 30.6% rent burden
- Mason County$1,285 median gross rent · 46.6% rent burden
- Okanogan County$887 median gross rent · 39.2% rent burden
- Pacific County$1,005 median gross rent · 43.5% rent burden
- Pend Oreille County$855 median gross rent · 34.3% rent burden
- Pierce County$1,806 median gross rent · 53% rent burden
- San Juan County$1,512 median gross rent · 44.6% rent burden
- Skagit County$1,536 median gross rent · 54.2% rent burden
- Skamania County$1,068 median gross rent · 44.4% rent burden
- Snohomish County$1,949 median gross rent · 53.7% rent burden
- Spokane County$1,283 median gross rent · 52.1% rent burden
- Stevens County$898 median gross rent · 42.7% rent burden
- Thurston County$1,736 median gross rent · 55.4% rent burden
- Walla Walla County$1,218 median gross rent · 54.1% rent burden
- Whatcom County$1,555 median gross rent · 60.1% rent burden
- Whitman County$1,049 median gross rent · 61.8% rent burden
- Yakima County$1,109 median gross rent · 44.3% 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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