Abstract:

HUD Income Limits are collected and published to determine the maximum income a household may earn to participate in certain housing subsidy programs. Home income limits from the year 2019 were used. Median income is developed for each metropolitan area (and applies to all counties in the metro area), and each non-metropolitan area (and is a county level measure). Data was obtained for communities in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands. The calculations stem from median family income data provided by the Census and adjusted for certain local conditions.

Suggested Citation:

Jakabovics, Andrew. 2023. HUD Income Limits by household size for the year 2019 for all states and some overseas territories of the United States. Distributed by: GRIIDC, Harte Research Institute, Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. doi:10.7266/60D3DGGJ

Purpose:

Used to estimate share of population at or below 30%, 50% and 80% area median income for potential inclusion in regression models.

Data Parameters and Units:

The headers are -State_Alpha -State County -Metro_Area_Name -County_Name -L50-is for households at 50% of area median income (AMI). -ELI is 30% of AMI. -L80 is for households at 80% of AMI. -Fips2010: the census designated FIPS code for each county. -Cbsasub: An indication of if the county is part of a metropolitan area and the core based statistical area code – another census designated code. Or if the county is a non-metropolitan county and the county code i. For counties that are part of a metropolitan area: METRO[cbsa number]M[cbsa number] ii. For non-metropolitan counties: NCNTY[county code]N[county code] -county_town_name, -state_name -metro

Methods:

Extract data for relevant years from HUD portal (https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/HOME-Income-limits.html).

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