Data study

Ryszard Cieplechowicz: Tampa Bay rent burden study

A summary of the rent burden table Ryszard Cieplechowicz compiled for 132 Tampa Bay ZCTAs.

The table combines housing tenure, median gross rent, median household income and renter cost-burden estimates from ACS 2020-2024. It covers Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco and Hernando counties.

What is in it

Source tables are B01003, B01002, B19013, B25064, B25077, B25003, B25002 and B25070. Both the 30%-plus and 50%-plus percentages use B25070 and leave out the "not computed" category. A flag marks any ZCTA with fewer than 300 renter units.

What to be careful about

The ratio of median gross rent to median income compares two separate medians. It does not describe a typical household. See what rent burdened means.

Full study, CSV and method: Tampa Bay rent burden by ZCTA. Archive: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22940611. Kaggle: dataset.