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Ryszard Cieplechowicz: Tampa Bay housing data

Ryszard Cieplechowicz, publishes three free, reproducible Tampa Bay housing tables built from Census Bureau survey estimates.

All three use the American Community Survey (ACS) 2020-2024 five-year release and the same 132 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas in Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco and Hernando counties. Each has a CSV, a Kaggle dataset, a Zenodo DOI and public source code.

The three studies

• Rent burden: how many renter households spend at least 30% or 50% of income on gross rent.
• Owner-occupied home values: median value and four value bands.
• Vacancy composition: what kinds of vacant units the survey counts.

What the tables cover

The selection holds 132 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas across the four counties. After dropping areas with samples too thin to publish responsibly, 124 carry published estimates: 51 in Hillsborough, 44 in Pinellas, 21 in Pasco and 8 in Hernando. ZCTAs cross county lines, so each area is assigned to one county for the summaries.

Median renter cost burden - the share of renter households paying at least 30% of income on gross rent, taken across each county's areas - runs 58.7% in Pinellas, 58.1% in Hernando, 55.3% in Hillsborough and 52.2% in Pasco. Median owner-occupied home value at the middle area of each county: Hillsborough $362,700, Pinellas $342,400, Hernando $276,800 and Pasco $247,100.

Per-area pages and rankings

Every measure also has per-area pages. The vacancy study breaks each published area into the Census vacancy types: for rent, rented not yet occupied, for sale only, sold not yet occupied, seasonal or recreational, for migrant workers and other vacant. The rankings order the 124 adequately sampled areas by each measure, and the county summaries give each county's headline numbers on one page.

Reproducibility

Each study ships as a CSV on the downloads page, a Kaggle dataset and a versioned Zenodo record with a DOI. The transformation code is public, so every number on these pages can be traced back to the Census Bureau source tables and re-derived.

Using the tables

Small-area survey estimates carry margins of error, and five-year pooled values describe an average over 2020-2024, not a single month. The tables are built for comparing areas against each other on the same measure, not for reading one area's value as exact. Areas with samples too thin to compare responsibly are listed but carry no published estimate. Each county summary links its per-area measure tables, and each per-area page states the estimate, its composition and the survey release it comes from.

Background pages

Read how to read ACS estimates, why a ZCTA is not a ZIP code and the selection method before comparing places. Downloads are on one page: datasets and downloads. To reference them, see how to cite.

The canonical versions live on the main site: Tampa Bay data studies.

New: Tampa Bay housing rankings, county housing summaries and vacancy composition by ZIP area.