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NAHB Housing Affordability Index Ranking:
Major US Metropolitan Areas:
2000 Quarter 1

The National Association of Home Builders Housing Affordability Index measures the percentage of homes sold that a median income family in a metropolitan area can buy.

Rank Metropolitan Area (CMSA or MSA) Component (PMSA) Housing Afforabiility Index Variance from Average
1 Kansas City   82.1 30.7%
2 Indianapolis   81.0 29.0%
3 Minneapolis-St. Paul   78.4 24.8%
4 Oklahoma City   77.5 23.4%
5 Washington-Baltimore Washington 77.1 22.8%
6 Cincinnati   76.7 22.1%
7 Tampa-St. Petersburg   76.5 21.8%
8 Rochester   76.4 21.7%
9 Grand Rapids   76.1 21.2%
10 Jacksonville   75.5 20.2%
11 Buffalo   75.4 20.1%
12 Hartford   75.1 19.6%
13 Nashville   75.0 19.4%
14 Atlanta   74.9 19.3%
15 Miami Fort Lauderdale 74.8 19.1%
16 Cleveland   74.4 18.5%
17 Greensboro   74.3 18.3%
18 Washington-Baltimore Baltimore 74.1 18.0%
19 Milwaukee   74.0 17.8%
20 Dallas-Fort Worth Fort Worth 74.0 17.8%
21 St., Louis   73.6 17.2%
22 Orlando   73.6 17.2%
23 Memphis   73.5 17.0%
24 Columbus   71.2 13.4%
25 New York Nassau-Suffolk 70.6 12.4%
26 Norfolk-Virginia Beach   70.0 11.5%
27 Phoenix   69.5 10.7%
28 New Orleans   67.2 7.0%
29 Charlotte   67.2 7.0%
30 Las Vegas   67.2 7.0%
31 Pittsburgh   67.0 6.7%
32 Houston   66.2 5.4%
33 Dallas-Fort Worth Dallas 65.3 4.0%
34 Raleigh-Durham   64.8 3.2%
35 New York Middlesex-Somerset-Hunterdon 63.6 1.3%
36 San Antonio   63.3 0.8%
37 Chicago   61.7 -1.8%
38 Detroit   61.4 -2.2%
39 Salt Lake City   59.8 -4.8%
40 Philadelphia   59.0 -6.1%
41 Miami Miami 58.8 -6.4%
42 Denver   58.5 -6.8%
43 Austin   57.5 -8.4%
44 Los Angeles Riverside-San Bernardino 57.3 -8.8%
45 New York Bergen-Passaic 54.2 -13.7%
46 New York Newark 53.6 -14.6%
47 Sacramento   53.5 -14.8%
48 Boston   51.3 -18.3%
49 Seattle   47.2 -24.8%
50 New York New York 42.1 -33.0%
51 Los Angeles Orange County 41.3 -34.2%
52 Los Angeles Los Angeles 40.2 -36.0%
53 Portland   32.9 -47.6%
54 San Francisco Oakland 32.1 -48.9%
55 San Diego   30.1 -52.1%
56 San Francisco San Jose 18.3 -70.9%
57 San Francisco San Francisco 10.3 -83.6%
Average 62.8 0.0%
Derived from National Association of Home Builders data.
Metropolitan areas and components over 1,000,000 population.

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