Three Tampa Bay housing datasets: rent burden, home values, vacancy
This first episode covers the three free Tampa Bay datasets built from the Census Bureau's 2020-2024 American Community Survey five-year estimates: rent burden by ZIP area, owner-occupied home values, and vacancy composition. All three cover 132 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas across Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco and Hernando counties, carry permanent DOIs, and are free to reuse with attribution.
In this episode
- Rent burden: gross rent as a share of household income, and why gross rent includes utilities
- Owner home values: why owned-home values read differently from listing prices
- Vacancy composition: for-rent vs seasonal vacancy tell different stories
Episode resources
- This episode at the Internet Archive (downloadable MP3)
- The three datasets, methods and CSV downloads
- How to cite the datasets
- County-by-county comparisons on the Ryszard name site
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