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Housing Insecurity by County — US Rankings

CDC PLACES 2023 · Age-adjusted prevalence · All 3,144 US counties

Housing insecurity in BRFSS captures adults who reported being worried about having stable housing, being behind on rent, or experiencing an eviction event in the past 12 months. PLACES models county-level prevalence. The measure tracks housing-cost burden and local eviction-court activity more than homelessness specifically — the residential-homeless population is largely missed by phone-survey methodology and is better counted by HUD point-in-time data.

How this ranking is built

Source: CDC PLACES 2023 release. Methodology: BRFSS survey responses pooled across years, fitted with a small-area statistical model, age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard population. Confidence intervals (95%) are shown for each county — wider intervals indicate more uncertainty in the modeled estimate, typically driven by smaller populations.

Lowest Housing Insecurity Rates — Top 100 Counties

Counties with the lowest reported housing insecurity prevalence — these counties show the most favorable position on this measure.

#CountyRate
1Falls Church city5.9%
2Hamilton County6.9%
3Los Alamos County6.9%
4Arlington County6.9%
5Delaware County7.2%
6Summit County7.2%
7Ozaukee County7.2%
8Carver County7.3%
9Morgan County7.3%
10Loudoun County7.4%
11Gallatin County7.5%
12Waukesha County7.5%
13Oconee County7.7%
14Dallas County7.7%
15Washington County7.8%
16Rockingham County7.8%
17Forsyth County7.9%
18Boone County7.9%
19Warren County7.9%
20Livingston County7.9%
21Washington County7.9%
22Poquoson city7.9%
23St. Croix County7.9%
24Sarpy County8.0%
25Burleigh County8.0%
26Johnson County8.1%
27Saunders County8.1%
28Hunterdon County8.1%
29Wasatch County8.1%
30Lewis and Clark County8.3%
31Seward County8.3%
32Cass County8.3%
33Albemarle County8.3%
34Fairfax County8.3%
35Washington County8.3%
36Warrick County8.4%
37Marion County8.4%
38Winneshiek County8.4%
39Leelanau County8.4%
40Garfield County8.4%
41Hamilton County8.4%
42Kearney County8.4%
43Morris County8.4%
44Warren County8.4%
45Monroe County8.5%
46Bremer County8.5%
47Dickinson County8.5%
48Grundy County8.5%
49Madison County8.5%
50Cass County8.5%
51Grant County8.5%
52Logan County8.5%
53Dare County8.5%
54Davis County8.5%
55Goochland County8.5%
56Mills County8.6%
57Olmsted County8.6%
58Wright County8.6%
59Jefferson County8.6%
60Cedar County8.6%
61Wheeler County8.6%
62Oliver County8.6%
63Bristol County8.6%
64Dane County8.6%
65Dakota County8.7%
66Dodge County8.7%
67Thomas County8.7%
68Burke County8.7%
69Traill County8.7%
70Union County8.7%
71Washington County8.7%
72Door County8.7%
73Benton County8.8%
74Boone County8.8%
75Howard County8.8%
76Loup County8.8%
77Pierce County8.8%
78Cavalier County8.8%
79Griggs County8.8%
80Hanover County8.8%
81Calumet County8.8%
82Cumberland County8.9%
83Keweenaw County8.9%
84Houston County8.9%
85Scott County8.9%
86Carroll County8.9%
87Geauga County8.9%
88Medina County8.9%
89Fairfax city8.9%
90Norfolk County9.0%
91St. Charles County9.0%
92Missoula County9.0%
93Ravalli County9.0%
94Arthur County9.0%
95Rock County9.0%
96Grafton County9.0%
97Orange County9.0%
98Foster County9.0%
99Clarke County9.0%
100York County9.0%

Best 100 counties for Housing Insecurity.

Highest Housing Insecurity Rates — Bottom 100 CountiesCounties with the highest reported housing insecurity prevalence.
#CountyRate
1East Carroll Parish33.6%
2Holmes County32.5%
3Humphreys County32.1%
4Greene County31.8%
5Tunica County31.7%
6Kusilvak Census Area31.6%
7Bronx County31.4%
8Bullock County31.2%
9Madison Parish30.9%
10Sharkey County30.6%
11Claiborne County30.6%
12Quitman County30.4%
13Jefferson County30.3%
14McKinley County30.2%
15Coahoma County29.8%
16Perry County29.8%
17Sioux County29.2%
18Wilcox County29.0%
19Lowndes County29.0%
20Randolph County28.9%
21Leflore County28.8%
22Claiborne Parish28.4%
23Hancock County28.4%
24Noxubee County28.2%
25Washington County28.1%
26Tensas Parish27.9%
27Sunflower County27.7%
28Macon County27.7%
29Phillips County27.6%
30Desha County27.4%
31Issaquena County27.2%
32Allendale County27.0%
33Terrell County26.7%
34Luna County26.5%
35Yazoo County26.5%
36Bethel Census Area26.5%
37Dallas County26.5%
38Wilkinson County26.3%
39Clayton County26.3%
40Stewart County26.1%
41Dougherty County26.1%
42Lee County26.1%
43Marion County26.0%
44Morehouse Parish25.9%
45Bolivar County25.8%
46Sumter County25.7%
47Imperial County25.5%
48Apache County25.3%
49Macon County25.3%
50Marlboro County25.2%
51Dillon County25.2%
52Jefferson Davis County25.2%
53St. Francis County25.2%
54Telfair County25.1%
55Lee County25.0%
56Bienville Parish25.0%
57Chicot County25.0%
58Tallahatchie County24.8%
59St. Helena Parish24.7%
60Adams County24.6%
61Calhoun County24.5%
62Concordia Parish24.4%
63Northwest Arctic Borough24.4%
64Emporia city24.3%
65Williamsburg County24.3%
66Pike County24.2%
67Red River Parish24.2%
68Quitman County24.2%
69Atkinson County24.1%
70Petersburg city23.9%
71Clay County23.9%
72Talbot County23.7%
73Jenkins County23.7%
74Jefferson County23.7%
75Jefferson County23.7%
76Crittenden County23.7%
77Clay County23.6%
78Warren County23.6%
79Halifax County23.5%
80Baker County23.5%
81Lafayette County23.5%
82Conecuh County23.5%
83Hale County23.4%
84Orangeburg County23.3%
85Hampton County23.3%
86Barnwell County23.3%
87Early County23.3%
88Crisp County23.3%
89Barbour County23.2%
90Ben Hill County23.1%
91Robeson County23.0%
92Scott County23.0%
93Panola County23.0%
94Kemper County23.0%
95St. Landry Parish23.0%
96Merced County23.0%
97Hopewell city22.9%
98Hinds County22.9%
99Turner County22.9%
100Taylor County22.9%

Worst 100 counties for Housing Insecurity.

What this ranking suggests

Housing insecurity is the social driver that shows up most strongly in pediatric and chronic-disease outcomes downstream — repeated moves, utility shutoffs, and housing-cost burden all carry into medication adherence and emergency-department use. Pair this ranking with the SHUTUTILITY ranking for a fuller picture.

Methodology notes & limitations

Estimates are statistical model outputs, not direct measurements. Small counties have wider confidence intervals; treat narrow rank differences in those rows as within-noise. Counties where the underlying population is too small to support modeling are suppressed entirely (about 1% of US counties). All measures are age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard population. The PLACES dataset uses BRFSS self-reported data — self-report introduces known direction-of-bias in some measures (BMI is under-reported; binge drinking is under-reported), but the bias is roughly uniform across counties so ranking comparability is preserved. See the methodology page for full data-pipeline documentation.

By Logan Johnson, Founder & Data EditorPublished Reviewed by Logan Johnson, Founder & Data Editor

Data source: CDC PLACES 2023 release. Measure ID: HOUSINSECU.

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