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Overcrowded housing, US states

Overcrowded share by state · all 52 states · hover or tap a state for every figure on this page

StatesHawaii

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Darker amber is a higher share of occupied housing units with more than one occupant per room. Puerto Rico is listed in the ranking and table but is not on this map.

A typical published area has 2.2% of occupied housing units with more than one occupant per room, the midpoint of the 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico on the 2023 ACS five-year estimates. Hawaii leads at 8.8%, then California at 8.2%, Alaska at 5.9% and New York at 5.2%. West Virginia is the lowest at 1.2%. 4 areas reach 5%. Each share is overcrowded occupied units divided by total occupied units in that area, not a United States overcrowding rate.

2.2%typical published areathe middle area, not an average

8.8%Hawaiihighest overcrowding share

8.2%Californiasecond highest, and the most overcrowded units

1.2%West Virginialowest of the published areas

4areas at or above 5%Hawaii, California, Alaska and New York

Figure 1

Overcrowded housing, all published states

Overcrowded share · all 52 · ranked high to low

Summary

Every area the Census published in this table: 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, 52 in all. Hawaii leads at 8.8%, then California at 8.2%, Alaska at 5.9% and New York at 5.2%. West Virginia is the lowest at 1.2%. The middle published area sits at 2.2%. 4 areas reach 5%. The ranking is each area's own overcrowded occupied units (1.01 or more occupants per room) divided by total occupied units on the 2023 ACS five-year estimates.

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Severely overcrowded housing, all published states

Severely overcrowded share · all 52 · ranked high to low

Summary

Every published area, ranked by the share of occupied units with 1.51 or more occupants per room. Hawaii leads at 3.7%, then California, Alaska and New York. Michigan is the lowest at 0.4%. The middle published area sits at 0.7%. Severe overcrowding is a subset of overcrowding, so these shares are lower than the 1.01-or-more ranking.

Table 1

All states

52 rows · 8 columns · sorted by overcrowded share, high to low

Summary

Overcrowding and severe overcrowding shares, unit counts and total occupied housing for every state, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico on the 2023 ACS five-year estimates. Overcrowded means 1.01 or more occupants per room; severe means 1.51 or more. Sort any column or use the filter box to jump to a state by name. These shares cannot be averaged into a United States overcrowding rate.

All states
	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Hawaii	8.8%	3.7%	42,909	18,197	488,991	19,642	23,267
California	8.2%	3.1%	1,107,572	422,938	13,434,847	331,431	776,141
Alaska	5.9%	2.5%	15,933	6,796	267,865	8,726	7,207
New York	5.2%	2.1%	400,943	162,696	7,668,956	99,325	301,618
Texas	4.8%	1.6%	516,183	169,226	10,747,240	212,147	304,036
Arizona	4.4%	1.5%	122,794	42,253	2,796,790	52,269	70,525
Nevada	4.3%	1.5%	50,727	17,332	1,183,393	17,035	33,692
District of Columbia	3.9%	2.0%	12,380	6,353	321,556	1,766	10,614
New Jersey	3.7%	1.3%	129,710	46,707	3,478,355	33,596	96,114
Washington	3.5%	1.3%	105,859	40,233	3,020,558	38,791	67,068
New Mexico	3.2%	1.1%	26,633	8,810	825,021	14,661	11,972
Oregon	3.2%	1.2%	54,734	19,853	1,701,548	20,144	34,590
Florida	3.2%	1.0%	270,620	87,051	8,550,911	105,221	165,399
Utah	3.1%	0.8%	33,579	8,848	1,094,896	14,743	18,836
Idaho	3.1%	0.8%	21,248	5,336	693,821	10,309	10,939
Oklahoma	2.8%	0.8%	42,611	11,691	1,542,780	20,222	22,389
Arkansas	2.6%	0.7%	31,285	8,794	1,189,160	12,952	18,333
Maryland	2.5%	0.9%	58,906	19,907	2,339,510	18,576	40,330
Illinois	2.5%	0.8%	123,016	41,355	5,001,904	52,313	70,703
Colorado	2.5%	0.8%	57,126	19,168	2,325,576	21,061	36,065
Louisiana	2.3%	0.6%	41,589	10,533	1,783,168	17,487	24,102
Puerto Rico	2.3%	0.5%	28,567	6,321	1,239,243	16,612	11,955
Georgia	2.3%	0.6%	92,313	25,745	4,008,013	35,991	56,322
North Carolina	2.3%	0.7%	94,348	28,603	4,186,924	37,350	56,998
Mississippi	2.2%	0.6%	25,254	7,331	1,131,760	11,386	13,868
Minnesota	2.2%	0.8%	50,818	17,437	2,282,967	21,758	29,060
South Dakota	2.2%	0.7%	7,888	2,499	358,552	3,272	4,616
Massachusetts	2.2%	0.8%	60,715	21,945	2,762,070	19,842	40,873
North Dakota	2.2%	0.8%	7,083	2,535	325,079	2,867	4,216
Virginia	2.1%	0.6%	69,528	21,571	3,326,260	22,106	47,422
Nebraska	2.1%	0.6%	16,360	4,876	786,885	6,896	9,464
Kansas	2.1%	0.7%	23,928	8,203	1,160,715	10,667	13,261
Rhode Island	2.1%	0.7%	8,998	3,152	436,902	3,309	5,689
Tennessee	2.1%	0.6%	56,844	16,360	2,768,743	21,562	35,282
South Carolina	2.0%	0.6%	41,861	12,725	2,070,390	16,892	24,969
Kentucky	2.0%	0.6%	35,851	10,531	1,791,991	14,071	21,780
Connecticut	2.0%	0.7%	28,258	9,515	1,420,170	8,905	19,353
Delaware	2.0%	0.6%	7,800	2,220	396,209	2,797	5,003
Wyoming	1.9%	0.6%	4,448	1,403	238,176	2,235	2,213
Montana	1.9%	0.6%	8,406	2,597	452,683	4,754	3,652
Missouri	1.8%	0.5%	43,909	12,469	2,484,834	20,133	23,776
Indiana	1.7%	0.5%	46,727	12,944	2,681,537	22,835	23,892
Alabama	1.7%	0.5%	33,035	9,877	1,969,105	15,986	17,049
Iowa	1.6%	0.5%	21,304	6,242	1,303,763	9,952	11,352
Vermont	1.6%	0.8%	4,388	2,285	269,466	1,782	2,606
Wisconsin	1.6%	0.4%	39,168	10,797	2,446,028	16,799	22,369
Michigan	1.6%	0.4%	64,450	16,321	4,040,168	33,835	30,615
Pennsylvania	1.5%	0.5%	80,538	28,046	5,235,339	31,383	49,155
Ohio	1.4%	0.4%	70,004	19,603	4,829,571	27,374	42,630
New Hampshire	1.4%	0.5%	7,777	2,499	551,186	3,540	4,237
Maine	1.4%	0.6%	8,162	3,318	589,085	3,976	4,186
West Virginia	1.2%	0.4%	8,764	2,981	721,448	4,191	4,573

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About this data

Overcrowded housing is occupied units with 1.01 or more occupants per room, summing owner and renter lines from ACS table B25014 (Tenure by Occupants per Room).
Severely overcrowded housing is occupied units with 1.51 or more occupants per room from the same table.
A midpoint of state overcrowding shares is not a United States overcrowding rate. Each figure is for that state, the District of Columbia or Puerto Rico alone.
The Census published 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. None of the occupancy estimates were suppressed, and none of the margins of error used ACS controlled-estimate sentinels.
Alaska and Hawaii appear in the ranking and table; on the map they are shown in the usual insets. Puerto Rico is in the ranking and table but is not shaded on the state map.
This page measures occupants per room, not average household size.

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