2020–2024 American Community Survey

Home values, measured in household incomes.

Median home value ÷ median annual household income, county by county. A ratio of 5× means the county’s median home value is five times its median household income.

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4–<5×

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3,138 counties with ratios; 6 unavailable. Alaska and Hawaii shown as insets at different scales. Includes county equivalents; excludes U.S. territories.

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Sources & how to read this map

The ratio divides B25077: median value of owner-occupied housing units by B19013: median household income. Both come from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020–2024 ACS 5-year estimates. Income covers all households, including renters. These are period estimates expressed in 2024 dollars, not current listing prices or a single-year snapshot.

This is a ratio of two county medians, not the median of individual households’ ratios, a mortgage affordability calculation, or the number of years needed to save for a home. Estimates have sampling uncertainty; the detail panel shows the Census-published 90% margins of error for each input. No margin of error is calculated for the ratio. Missing, suppressed, nonpositive, or otherwise nonnumeric estimates are not used.

Embedded data retrieved September 7, 2026 from the official home value summary file and household income summary file. Joined by five-digit county FIPS to 2024 Census cartographic boundaries (1:5 million), including Connecticut planning regions. Boundaries are simplified for display. This page contains a fixed data snapshot and makes no live data requests.

Natural amenities come from the USDA Economic Research Service’s 1999 Natural Amenities Scale, a composite of climate, topography, and water measures for the lower 48 States. Miami-Dade and Oglala Lakota use their predecessor FIPS records. Connecticut planning-region scores are land-area-weighted from predecessor counties using the Census Bureau’s county-to-county-subdivision crosswalk; Broomfield is estimated from its four parent counties. Alaska and Hawaii have no USDA amenities score. The contrast watchlist ranks counties on opposite sides of the national median by the absolute gap between their economic and amenities percentile scores; it changes only when the selected economic metric changes. The static contrast map subtracts each county’s home-value-to-income percentile from its amenities percentile. Warm colors indicate relatively high amenities and low housing costs; cool colors indicate the reverse.