Daily Maps · October 8, 2026 · Archive
Where the median income goes furthest against the median rent
1,127 of the 3,201 counties with data match: Median Household Income above $60,000; Median Gross Rent under $1,100. The states with the most: IA (83), TX (83), MN (71), NE (60). The largest by population: Cuyahoga County, OH (1,256,620); Allegheny County, PA (1,245,310); Pima County, AZ (1,042,393); Erie County, NY (951,232). Sources: Census ACS 2022; Census ACS.
How to read this map
The map sets 2 ranges on the county data: Median Household Income (county) from $60K to $1000K; Median Gross Rent from $0/mo to $1,100/mo. A county is drawn solid navy when it falls inside every range, dotted when it misses one, and hatched when it reports no figure for one of the measures, so a hatched county is neither a match nor a miss. Recounted today from the county database, 1,128 of the 3,203 counties with a figure for every range fall inside all of them, and Iowa has the most with 83. The count in the title is the count on the day the map ran; the two can differ when a source is refreshed.
The figures are the same ones behind every county page on this site: Census population and household income, Zillow home values, HUD fair market rents, County Health Rankings measures of crime and health, NOAA temperatures and USDA amenity scores, each stored with its publication year and listed below for this map. "Play with this map" opens the live county map with these ranges already set, so you can move a handle and watch the count change; "Make your own" starts from a blank map.
Sources
- Census ACS 2022
- Census ACS
Solid navy marks counties inside every range on this map, dotted counties miss one or all of them, and hatched counties have no figure for that measure. On a heatmap, darker means higher and faded counties fall outside the range.