CORRECTION: State and Oregon Housing Cost Burden Data from 2007 ACS, With Rankings and Comparisons.

Good thing I called the link below a Draft.

I discovered an error in the formula I used to calculate the severe cost burden rate for homeowners. I have corrected the PDF file, and the link below, to point to the correct version of this document. The earlier version of the PDF has been deleted and let's hope this is the last correction I need to make.

I have prepared a draft PDF document HERE that contains a comprehensive set of housing cost burden data from the 2007 American Community Survey, including state level data for Oregon and data for several Oregon counties and cities.

Key Points About This Housing Cost Burden Data:

• Data for all states included, as well as Oregon cities and counties large enough to be included in the ACS.
• File includes both homeowner and renter household cost burden rates and rankings.
• Both 30% or more cost burdens and severe (50% or greater) cost burden rates are included.
• The ACS tables used to calculate these cost burdens are also identified.

Within the document there are several sections

1. First section is alpha listing of states showing renter and homeowner cost burdens, with a set of columns showing % below or above state cost burden is compared to U.S. Average. (Green cell background indicates that state has lower cost burden than U.S. Average).
   
2. Second section is alpha listing of states, showing state cost burden rankings.
3. Third section displays cost burdens for Oregon cities and counties large enough to be included in the ACS. (Cities or counties with cost burdens greater than statewide average have yellow backgrounds).
4. The final section is a step by step description of process I used to calculate renter cost burdens.