Score
Home Price-to-Income
Lower median home value relative to median household income scores higher.
Higher values rank better for this score.
How It's Calculated
The latest published score is normalized to a 0-100 scale. The method below explains what the score rewards, with technical source metadata available for audit.
How the ranking is built
Home Price-to-Income rewards places where typical home values are lower relative to local median household income.
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The home price-to-income ratio is converted to a 0-100 score where lower ratios score higher.
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The normalization is population-weighted inverse percentile rank over the full observed housing dataset.
Technical details
Read from the current master score table for this criterion.
The top 10 below ignore your blended relocation weights and sort only by Home Price-to-Income.
What This Score Means
Home Price-to-Income rewards places where typical home values are lower relative to local median household income.
Statistics Feeding This Score
- Median home valueSource: U.S. Census American Community Survey 5-Year
ACS median value for owner-occupied housing units.
- Median household incomeSource: U.S. Census American Community Survey 5-Year
ACS median household income, used as the denominator.
- Home price-to-income ratioSource: Derived from ACS inputs
Derived as median home value divided by median household income.
Source Data
Known Limits
- ACS values are place-level estimates, not live listings or neighborhood-level prices.
- Scores compare places against the current scored dataset using percentile-rank normalization, so the full observed ordering matters without p5/p95 clipping.
- Affordability does not include taxes, insurance, utilities, commuting costs, or local wage differences beyond median household income.
Top 10 Locations
Ranked by Home Price-to-Income.