Housing insecurity disproportionately threatens Black and Hispanic homeowners: Share of low-income homeowners that spend more than 30% of their income on housing costs, 2007–2023

Year Black White Hispanic Black White Hispanic
2007 75.4% 68.7% 71.2%
2008 75.7% 68.7% 72.0%
2009 74.9% 68.8% 70.7%
2010 75.3% 70.1% 69.9%
2011 75.2% 68.4% 68.5%
2012 71.9% 66.1% 64.0%
2013 68.1% 64.1% 61.0%
2014 68.5% 62.1% 59.7%
2015 66.1% 61.3% 58.9%
2016 65.7% 60.1% 56.6%
2017 63.3% 57.5% 55.6%
2018 64.4% 59.5% 55.5%
2019 65.2% 57.9% 55.6%
2020
2021 67.1% 61.3% 58.4%
2022 66.3% 61.3% 56.7%
2023 67.6% 60.8% 58.1%
Economic Policy Institute

Notes: Shaded areas denote recessions. Race and ethnicity are mutually exclusive (i.e., white alone non-Hispanic, Black alone or in any combination non-Hispanic, Hispanic any race). Data for 2020 are omitted due to data quality issues

Source: EPI analysis of 2007–2023 American Community Survey 1-Year microdata via IPUMS.

View the underlying data on epi.org.