How Much Money You Have to Make to Afford a Home in Each State

[packman]

More detail:

https://twistedsifter.com/2022/03/this-map-shows-how-much-money-you-have-to-make-to-afford-a-home-in-each-state/

[senseandsensibility]

1. Woo Hoo! CA! We're #1!

I have to say, CO is surprisingly high.

[DFW]

4. How do you figure California is number one?

What kind of number system do you use there?

[senseandsensibility]

10. I didn't see DC, and HA but I was being sarcastic.

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[DFW]

13. OK, the sarcasm gives you a pass

DC and Hawai'i have Californny beat by a country mile!

(not that on a chart like this one makes that anything to be proud of--just ask all the people that work there how it feels to not be able to afford to live where you work!)

[gldstwmn]

12. Colorado has become very progressive in the last decade or so

and has experienced a huge influx of people. Another surprising real estate market is Montana. It's shocking what starter homes are going for there.

[Demovictory9]

2. Could live well in wv on ca income but would be exposed to trump flags

[FakeNoose]

3. Zowie! Hawaii is shocking, DC is not far behind

I knew that Pennsylvania would be in the "affordable" range but this is a little surprising.

[DFW]

6. High end places pull the average up, low end places pull the average down

IN DC, you don't need many mansions on Foxhall Road to hide the cost of much of Northeast, since DC is so tiny--just like the vast expanse of Atoonas and Latrobes can outweigh the Main Line outside of Philly.

[moondust]

7. $15/hr x 40 hrs/week x 52 weeks...

$31,200

[senseandsensibility]

9. You need four such workers

to buy a house in CA.

[moondust]

11. Yes.

I lived in CA a couple different times in the 70s and 80s and loved it there. Cost of living looked like it would just keep getting worse so I moved out.

[Shermann]

8. Looks like this is based on the mean home price, really should be the median nt

[Tree Lady]

14. You need more in CA

Daughter trying to buy. Anything decent over a mil in her area.