Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Affordability index

We are getting there but we still have some air left in the bubble.

HOUSING AFFORDABILITY RATINGS UNITED STATES METROPOLITAN MARKETS OVER 1,000,000



Rank Metropolitan Area Median Multiple
AFFORDABLE
1 Indianapolis 2.2
2 Cleveland 2.3
2 Detroit 2.3
4 Rochester 2.4
5 Buffalo 2.5
5 Cincinnati 2.5
7 Atlanta 2.6
7 Pittsburgh 2.6
7 St. Louis 2.6
10 Columbus 2.7
10 Dallas-Fort Worth 2.7
10 Kansas City 2.7
10 Mem[hios 2.7
14 Oklahoma City 2.8
15 Houston 2.9
15 Louisville 2.9
15 Nashville 2.9
MODERATELY UNAFFORDABLE
18 Minneapolis-St. Paul 3.1
18 New Orleans 3.1
20 Birmingham 3.2
20 San Antonio 3.2
22 Austin 3.3
22 Jacksonville 3.3
24 Phoenix 3.4
25 Sacramento 3.5
26 Tampa-St. Petersburg 3.6
27 Denver 3.7
27 Hartford 3.7
27 Las Vegas 3.7
27 Raleigh 3.7
27 Richmond 3.7
32 Salt Lake City 3.8
33 Charlotte 3.9
33 Riverside-San Bernardino 3.9
33 Washington (DC) 3.9
36 Milwaukee 4.0
36 Philadelphia 4.0
SERIOUSLY UNAFFORDABLE
38 Chicago 4.1
38 Orlando 4.1
40 Baltimore 4.2
41 Virginia Beach-Norfolk 4.3
42 Providence 4.4
43 Portland (OR) 4.9
SEVERELY UNAFFORDABLE
44 Seattle 5.2
45 Boston 5.3
46 Miami-West Palm Beach 5.6
47 San Diego 5.9
48 New York 7.0
49 Los Angeles 7.2
50 San Jose 7.4
51 San Francisco 8.0

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Seriously, WTF is with the PNW? Portland used to be dirt cheap and now those bubble prices just aren't letting up...and it's not like the economy is good in Oregon or anything. Half my family lives there and I can't figure out who the heck is still paying those astronomical prices as every other person is unemployed or underemployed up there.

golfer_X said...

The PNW was a couple of years behind us in the bubble. They still think it's 2007 up there. They are still in the "it's different here" phase.