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  • 1.  Low and moderate income counts by masa or md

    Posted 10-25-2023 07:45 PM

    Looking for counts of low income and middle income households by market. Low is less than 50% ami and moderate is 50-75%. AMI being area median income

    I know about tract income based on geography. Thus would be based on income regardless of where someone lives. I can be rich and live in a low income census tract for example.

    Thanks for any thoughts.



  • 2.  RE: Low and moderate income counts by masa or md

    Posted 10-26-2023 11:58 AM

    About 8 weeks back... US HUD released updated CHAS data based on 2016-2020 ACS 5-year surveys. This is your best bet for obtaining socioec data of households by "percent of AMI" level -- and also comparable housing stock by "percent of AMI" level. www.huduser.gov/.../cp.html

    If you wanted something different? more bespoke than the HUD CHAS tables... certainly you could build your own tabulations with PUMS (or IPUMS) -- but you then lose the tract-level detail, and have to work with more highly-summarized geographies (PUMAs, groups of counties, whole states).

    good luck.



  • 3.  RE: Low and moderate income counts by masa or md

    Posted 11-03-2023 07:35 AM

    Suggest looking at IRS income by zip code data. This counts the number of returns into six income categories by zip code. It's the population, not an estimate. Also has breakdowns by kind of income. SOI Tax Stats - Individual Income Tax Statistics - 2020 ZIP Code Data (SOI) | Internal Revenue Service (irs.gov)