A reproducible descriptive analysis by Ahmadreza Samadi, using U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2024 table B25070 across 386 whole metropolitan areas in the 50 states/DC scope.

The 30% and 50% gross-rent-to-income thresholds use units with a computable ratio. Not-computed units are excluded from that denominator and reported separately. The 50% group is nested in the 30% group; do not add the shares.

The release includes raw aggregate source files, a CSV, chart with alt text, source hashes, rebuild scripts and CITATION.cff. All 11 source estimate/margin-of-error pairs are retained; derived percentage margins of error are not calculated. Displayed differences are not established as statistically significant.

The gallery chart shows ten metros selected by the largest computable renter-unit denominators and displayed alphabetically. It is not a selection of the ten highest rent-burden shares.

Six formula tests and a raw-data rebuild pass in four Linux/Windows and Python 3.12/3.13 CI jobs. Original code is MIT licensed; the Census data retain their source-specific reuse qualifications. Developed with AI assistance. These are survey estimates, not current asking rents, investment rankings, property yields or forecasts.

Versioned method, data and code: https://github.com/ahmadreza-smdi/metro-rent-burden/releases/tag/v1.0.0

Author and official profiles: https://a-samadi.com/about.html