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pretty_name: Tampa Bay rent burden by ZCTA, 2020-2024
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# Tampa Bay rent burden by ZIP area (ZCTA), 2020-2024

Author: Richard (Ryszard) Cieplechowicz, also known as Ryszard Cieplechowicz. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22940611 . Study page: https://richardcieplechowicz.com/tampa-bay-rent-burden-by-zcta-2020-2024/ . Name page: https://ryszardcieplechowicz.com/ . ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-2341-0890

This is a free 132-ZCTA table for Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco and Hernando counties in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. It combines housing tenure, median gross rent, median household income and renter cost-burden estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS) 2020-2024 five-year release.

## Columns

zip, county, population, median_age, median_household_income, median_gross_rent, median_home_value, occupied_units, renter_units, renter_share_pct, vacancy_rate_pct, rent_burdened_30plus_pct, severely_rent_burdened_50plus_pct, rent_to_income_pct, small_sample_flag.

"Rent burdened" means an estimated renter household pays at least 30% of its income in gross rent, including utilities. "Severely rent burdened" uses at least 50%. Both percentages use ACS table B25070 and exclude the "not computed" category. The rent_to_income_pct column compares two separate ZIP-level medians. It is a rough comparison, not the burden of a typical household.

## Method and limits

ACS tables B01003, B01002, B19013, B25064, B25077, B25003, B25002 and B25070 were retrieved through Census Reporter. County assignment uses the 2020 Census ZCTA relationship file and the county with the largest land-area overlap. Only ZCTAs with at least 500 residents are included. A flag marks fewer than 300 renter units as a small-sample caution. These are survey estimates with margins of error, not an address-level census or current rent listings. ZCTAs only approximate USPS ZIP codes, and the values cover a five-year period.

## Also published

Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/richardcieplechowicz/tampa-bay-zip-housing-and-rent-burden-2020-2024 . GitHub: https://github.com/richard-cieplechowicz/tampa-bay-zip-housing-data . Other studies: https://richardcieplechowicz.com/tampa-bay-data/

Citation: Cieplechowicz, Richard (2026), Tampa Bay ZIP Code Housing and Rent Burden, 2020-2024, CC BY 4.0. Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS.