Richard Cieplechowicz · Tampa Bay data studies
Tampa Bay rent burden by ZIP: video summary and transcript
A short video summary of the Tampa Bay rent burden by ZIP area (ZCTA), 2020-2024 study, with the full narration transcript and the main numbers.
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Transcript
“I asked Instinct AI where Tampa Bay renters are most stretched. Using the Census Bureau’s five-year American Community Survey, we built a table of all 132 Tampa Bay ZIP areas. In the median ZIP, about 57 percent of renter households pay at least 30 percent of their income in rent. In ZIP 33712 in St. Petersburg, it’s 74 percent. The full free table is at richardcieplechowicz.com. I’m Richard Cieplechowicz.”
Takeaways
The study covers 132 ZIP code tabulation areas in Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco and Hernando counties, built from U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2020-2024 five-year estimates. A household counts as rent-burdened when its gross rent, including utilities, is at least 30 percent of income (ACS table B25070; households marked “not computed” are excluded from the share).
The 57 percent figure is the median across the 132 ZIP areas of each area’s rent-burdened share - a cross-ZIP median, not the share among all Tampa Bay renter households combined. ZIP 33712 in St. Petersburg has one of the highest measured shares at 73.6 percent, alongside a median gross rent of $1,623 and median household income of $60,450. The smallest-sample ZIP areas are flagged in the table and were not used in the video.
The full table is free with a permanent DOI, 10.5281/zenodo.22940611, on the Tampa Bay data studies page, with charts on Tableau Public and the dataset on Kaggle and Hugging Face.