About this tool
This dashboard tracks housing affordability, home price appreciation, and employment for the 400 largest U.S. metro areas, with comparison figures for the 50 states, DC, and the nation. It helps users see how local housing costs compare with local incomes and job trends.
- Shows
- Housing affordability measures (price to income, mortgage to income, and monthly ownership costs including taxes and insurance), home price appreciation by price tier, housing supply by price tier, a carpenter index showing the share of home sales priced within reach of a carpenter's wage, and job growth overall and by industry.
- Places
- Nation, States, Metro areas
Questions it answers
- How affordable is housing in my metro compared with other large metros?
- How does home price to income in my metro compare with my state and the nation?
- How much have home prices risen in my metro, and does it differ by price tier?
- What share of home sales in my metro are priced within reach of a carpenter's wage?
- How has job growth in my metro changed since 2004, and which industries drove it?
Limits
- Covers the 400 largest metros, plus the 50 states, DC, and the nation; smaller metros are not included.
- Some recent price-to-income values are projected forward from earlier survey data rather than directly measured.
- Massachusetts job growth figures are not available.