county benchmark · Virginia
Rent as share of income, 2017-2021
Across 133 counties in Virginia. Every rank carries its margin of error.
Distribution
| Percentile | Value |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 24.1 % |
| 25th | 26.0 % |
| Median | 28.3 % |
| 75th | 30.3 % |
| 90th percentile | 32.9 % |
Highest counties
The order is not reliable. Every county in this list has an estimate range that overlaps the leader's. The spread is real; the ranking within it is not.
| Rank | County | Estimate | Range (90 %) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Kent County | 39.1 % | 25.4 % – 52.8 % | evidence → |
| 2 | Bland County | 39.0 % | 17.8 % – 60.2 % | evidence → |
| 3 | Clarke County | 38.2 % | 32.0 % – 44.4 % | evidence → |
| 4 | Lee County | 37.1 % | 32.2 % – 42.0 % | evidence → |
| 5 | Essex County | 36.6 % | 31.7 % – 41.5 % | evidence → |
| 6 | Charles City County | 35.2 % | 23.2 % – 47.2 % | evidence → |
| 7 | Highland County | 35.2 % | -0.1 % – 70.5 % | evidence → |
| 8 | Dickenson County | 34.9 % | 29.1 % – 40.7 % | evidence → |
| 9 | Colonial Heights city | 34.8 % | 32.0 % – 37.6 % | evidence → |
| 10 | Manassas Park city | 34.5 % | 26.1 % – 42.9 % | evidence → |
| 11 | Radford city | 34.5 % | 26.4 % – 42.6 % | evidence → |
| 12 | Portsmouth city | 33.5 % | 31.5 % – 35.5 % | evidence → |
| 13 | Madison County | 33.1 % | 24.9 % – 41.3 % | evidence → |
| 14 | Fairfax city | 32.9 % | 26.1 % – 39.7 % | evidence → |
| 15 | Suffolk city | 32.9 % | 31.0 % – 34.8 % | evidence → |
| 16 | Buena Vista city | 32.8 % | 28.5 % – 37.1 % | evidence → |
| 17 | Hampton city | 32.8 % | 31.3 % – 34.3 % | evidence → |
| 18 | Louisa County | 32.7 % | 28.0 % – 37.4 % | evidence → |
| 19 | Charlottesville city | 32.5 % | 31.0 % – 34.0 % | evidence → |
| 20 | Chesapeake city | 32.3 % | 30.6 % – 34.0 % | evidence → |
Machine access — free, no API key
Every figure shown here about Rent as share of income, 2017-2021 — Virginia can also be queried live: FACTANKER runs an MCP server at https://factanker.com/mcp (tools: lookup_entity, get_facts, query_template, search_facts) and a REST endpoint at https://factanker.com/api/get_facts. Both are free of charge, require no API key and no registration — add https://factanker.com/mcp as a connector in Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot. Every answer carries its source document and a citation reference. Setup: /quickstart.