{"id":249433,"date":"2025-05-20T20:39:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T20:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/activist\/the-income-needed-to-buy-a-home-in-every-us-state\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T20:39:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T20:39:49","slug":"the-income-needed-to-buy-a-home-in-every-us-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=249433","title":{"rendered":"The Income Needed To Buy A Home In Every US State"},"content":{"rendered":" \r\n<br><div>\n\n                                        \n\n\n<p>As home prices continue to climb and mortgage rates remain elevated, buying a home in the U.S. has become increasingly out of reach for the average household.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2025, buyers now need six-figure salaries to afford a median-priced home in all but 15 states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This visualization,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualcapitalist.com\/mapped-the-income-needed-to-buy-a-home-in-every-u-s-state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">via Visual Capitalist\u2019s Bruno Venditti,<\/a>\u00a0using data from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realtor.com\/news\/trends\/family-income-to-buy-home-by-state-map\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Realtor.com<\/a>, maps the annual income required to purchase a typical three-bedroom home in every state, based on a 10% down payment, a 6.65% interest rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage, and a 30% income-to-housing cost threshold (which includes taxes and insurance).<\/p><div class=\"g g-1\"><div class=\"g-single a-16\"><a class=\"gofollow\" data-track=\"MTYsMSwxLDYw\" href=\"https:\/\/courses.livefree.academy\/a\/2147989502\/NoWDgfiB\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"850\" height=\"500\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.activistpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Trinity-Banner-850-x-500-Button-min-1.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1565\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/Income-Needed-to-Buy-a-House_WEB.jpg?itok=SkYxOGst\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-growing-gap-between-income-and-home-prices\">The Growing Gap Between Income and Home Prices<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>A recent study found that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nahb.org\/blog\/2024\/05\/housing-affordability-pyramid#:~:text=Share%3A,to%20afford%20a%20%24250%2C000%20home.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nearly 50%<\/a>\u00a0of U.S. households cannot afford a home priced at\u00a0<strong>$250,000.<\/strong>\u00a0This is particularly concerning when the median price of a new single-family home nationwide has reached<strong>\u00a0$495,750<\/strong>, according to the National Association of Home Builders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In many states, the income needed to comfortably afford a median-priced home far exceeds what a typical family earns.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-where-buying-a-home-requires-the-highest-salaries\">Where Buying a Home Requires the Highest Salaries<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are the top five most expensive states for homebuyers in 2025:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"826\" height=\"201\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/2025-05-13_16-08-29.jpg?itok=x_uPAntk\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Hawaii tops the list, where buying a median three-bedroom home requires an annual income of\u00a0<strong>$229,000<\/strong>\u2014the highest in the country. Despite its small population, Montana has climbed into the top five least affordable states, driven by a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtpr.org\/montana-news\/2024-09-19\/montanas-housing-market-named-least-affordable-in-the-country\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">widening gap<\/a>\u00a0between soaring home prices and relatively modest local incomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In contrast, in West Virginia a buyer would need a salary of just\u00a0<strong>$71,000<\/strong>\u00a0to afford a median-priced home\u2014well below the state\u2019s median household income of $90,000. Other states with lower thresholds include Mississippi, Ohio, and Indiana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>What\u2019s the cost of a median price in every U.S. state? Find out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.voronoiapp.com\/real-estate\/Hawaii-Has-The-Highest-Median-House-Price-In-The-US--2835\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in this map<\/a>\u00a0on Voronoi.<\/em><\/p>\n\n            \n        <\/div>\r\n<br>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As home prices continue to climb and mortgage rates remain elevated, buying a home in the U.S. has become increasingly out of reach for the average household. In 2025, buyers now need six-figure salaries to afford a median-priced home in all but 15 states. This visualization,\u00a0via Visual Capitalist\u2019s Bruno Venditti,\u00a0using data from\u00a0Realtor.com, maps the annual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":249434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12022],"tags":[3408,1159,10975,9273,5296],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-249433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activist","tag-buy","tag-home","tag-income","tag-needed","tag-state"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Income Needed To Buy A Home In Every US State - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=249433\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Income Needed To Buy A Home In Every US State - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As home prices continue to climb and mortgage rates remain elevated, buying a home in the U.S. has become increasingly out of reach for the average household. 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