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Real estate statistics hub.
Current U.S. real estate numbers with their primary sources attached: Census Bureau ACS tables and FRED, rebuilt from the raw data rather than quoted secondhand.
Every page here is free to cite or republish with attribution and a link. Last updated 2026-08-16, on the 2024 5-year American Community Survey release.
- Renter households
- 45.0 million
- The demand side of every U.S. rental (Census ACS)
- Median gross rent
- $1,413/mo
- Contract rent plus utilities, the tenant's real cost
- 30-year fixed rate
- 6.67%
- Freddie Mac weekly average via FRED
- Minimum FHA down
- $11,645
- 3.5% down on the median home, owner-occupied
Three studies
Every figure with its source attached
Computed from the raw tables, not lifted from another article that lifted it from somewhere else. Take any of it, with a link.
- 10 sourced statistics · Updated 2026-08-16U.S. rental property statisticsRenter households, median gross rent, cost burden, vacancy, and the national rent-to-value ratio, computed from Census ACS tables.
- 9 sourced statistics · Updated 2026-08-16House hacking statisticsThe 2-to-4-unit housing stock, the renters already living in it, FHA entry costs, and the cities where the ratios currently work best.
- 11 sourced statistics · Updated 2026-08-16First-time real estate investor statisticsMortgage rates, median home values and incomes, down payments, property taxes, and the honest rental math at national medians.
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