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Severe Rent Burden Indicator

Severe Rent Burden measures the percentage of renter-occupied households in the City of St. Louis that spend more than half of their income on rent

Latest Measure (2016)

Severe Rent Burden Score 40 Indicator scores are represented on a scale from 1 to 100.
Disparity Ratio 2.13 Disparity direction: black-white
Renter-occupied households that spend more than half of their income on rent

Black renters are more than twice as likely as white renters to spend more than 50% of their household income on rent.

Source: American Community Survey 1-year PUMS

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