DATASETS

HUD User Datasets

HUD provides interested researchers with access to the original datasets generated by PD&R-sponsored data collection efforts, including the American Housing Survey, median family incomes and income limits, as well as microdata from research initiatives on topics such as housing discrimination, the HUD-insured multifamily housing stock, and the public housing population.

The dataset update schedule is available here.

MOST ACCESSED DATASETS

DATASETS

All Datasets

Program Operations and Planning Data

Housing Surveys Data

Program Participation Data

HUD Sponsored Research Studies Data

Program Operations and Planning Data

50th Percentile Rent Estimates
Median Rents generated from the Fair Market Rent Process for use in Success Rate Payment Standards.

Annual Adjustment Factors
The Department of Housing and Urban Development establishes the rent adjustment factors - called Annual Adjustment Factors (AAFs) - on the basis of Consumer Price Index (CPI) data relating to changes in residential rent and utility costs.

Annual Inflationary Adjustments and Passbook Rate

CDBG Income Limits

Consolidated Planning/CHAS Data
Custom tabulation of ACS data on housing needs.

Fair Market Rents
Rents used as the basis for payment standards in the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program.

HOME Income Limits

HOME Rent Limits

HOME Homeownership Value Limits

HTF Homeownership Value Limits

HOPWA Income Limits

Housing Trust Fund Income Limits

Housing Trust Fund Rent Limits

Income Limits
Income thresholds for determining eligibility for housing assistance.

Low-Vacancy Areas – Set-Aside Tenant Protection Vouchers

Metropolitan Area Look-Up
Defines Metropolitan status for individually selected counties based on OMB area definitions.

Multifamily Tax Subsidy Income Limits
HERA mandated income thresholds for Low-Income Housing Tax Credit and bond financed projects.

Multifamily Utility Allowance Factors
Multifamily Tax Subsidy Projects (MTSP) Income Limits were developed to meet the requirements established by the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-289) that allows 2007 and 2008 projects to increase over time.

Neighborhood Stabilization Data*
(The NSP Income Limits are the only portion of the NSP Dataset still updated.)
HUD's Neighborhood Stabilization Program provides emergency assistance to state and local governments to acquire and redevelop foreclosed properties that might otherwise become sources of abandonment and blight within their communities.

Qualified Census Tracts and Difficult Development Areas
Geographically- targeted areas for development in the LIHTC program.

Renewal Funding Inflation Factors
Renewal Funding Inflation Factors are used in the allocation of Housing Choice Voucher funds among Public Housing Agencies.

Small Area FMR
Small Area Fair Market Rents (FMRs) for all metropolitan areas.

Special Tabulations of Households
Households broken out by age, income, tenure, and conditions.

Uniform Relocation Act Income Limits
The Uniform Relocation Act Income Limits establish the extent of replacement housing assistance dependent on qualifying as low-income, as defined by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

USPS Vacancies Data
Summarizes data on address vacancies by Census tract.

USPS ZIP Code Crosswalk Files
Reconciles USPS ZIP geographies with other administrative geographies.

Utility Allowances
HUD has developed a Utility Schedule Model that enables the user to calculate utility schedules by housing type after entering utility rate information (tariffs).

* This dataset is no longer updated.

* PD&R does not maintain these data.

CDBG Low-Mod Benefit Areas - Census 2000 (HUDExchange.info)

CDBG Low-Mod Benefit Areas - ACS 2006-10 (HUDExchange.info)

FHA Loan Limits (HUD.GOV)

HOME Sales Price Limits (HUDExchange.info)

Housing Surveys Data

2001 Residential Finance Survey
Comprehensive survey of mortgages for owned and rented housing.

American Housing Survey
Comprehensive data on the national housing stock.

AHS: Housing Affordability Data System
What housing can people afford? What does housing cost?

Components of Inventory Change (CINCH) reports
Where does housing stock come from? Where does it go?

Manufactured Housing Survey
The Manufactured Housing Survey (MHS) is sponsored by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Rental Housing Finance Survey
The purpose of the RHFS is to provide current and continuous measure of financial, mortgage and property characteristics of multifamily rental housing properties in the United States.

Survey of Construction
The Survey of Construction (SOC) is sponsored by is jointly sponsored by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Census Bureau.

Survey of Market Absorption of New Multifamily Units
The Survey of Market Absorption of New Multifamily Units (SOMA) is sponsored by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and administered by the U.S. Census Bureau.

* PD&R does not maintain these data.

Homeless Point-in-Time Data (HUDExchange.info)

Program Participation Data

Government Sponsored Enterprise Data
The Department of Housing and Urban Development published a wealth of information on the mortgage purchases of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs) for which HUD had oversight through mid-2008.

HUD assisted Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS)
Tenant level data for HUD's largest rental assistance programs.

Low-Income Housing Tax Credit
Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Data on LIHTC properties placed in service and tenants living in LIHTC units.

Physical Inspection Scores
Detailed results of physical property inspections conducted by HUD's Real Estate Assessment Center from 2001 through January 2015. Includes properties that are owned, insured or subsidized by HU, including public housing and multifamily assisted housing.

Picture of Subsidized Households
Characteristics of nearly five million assisted housing units and households, summarized at the national, state, public housing agency (PHA), project, census tract, county, Core-Based Statistical Area and city levels.

* PD&R does not maintain these data.

CPD Consolidated Plans, Action Plans, and CAPERS (HUDExchange.info)

FHA HECM SF Portfolio (HUD.GOV)

FHA Single Family Portfolio Snapshot (HUD.GOV)

Ginnie Mae MBS Disclosure Data (GinnieMae.gov)

Housing Choice Voucher Program Support-VMS HAP Data (HUD.GOV)

Multifamily Assistance Section 8 Contracts (HUD.GOV)

Resident Characteristics Report (HUD.GOV)

Terminated MF Housing Mortgages (HUD.GOV)

HUD Sponsored Research Studies Data

Assessment of American Indian Housing Needs and Programs: Final Report

Discrimination in Metropolitan Housing Markets: National Results from Phase 1, Phase 2, and Phase 3 of the Housing Discrimination Study (HDS)*

Fair Housing Initiatives Data
The site visit and web survey data were collected as part of a study of the Fair Housing Initiatives Program.

Family Options Study Data Files

Family Unification Program Youth Data

Feasibility of Developing a National Parcel County Data

Housing Discrimination in the Rental Housing Market Against People Who Are Deaf and People Who Use Wheelchairs: National Study Findings*
Site visit and web survey data collected as part of the first national paired-testing study of housing discrimination against people who are deaf or hard of hearing and against people who use wheelchairs.

Monitoring of Internal Moisture Loads in Residential Buildings

Moving To Opportunity (MTO)
MTO is a unique random assignment research effort sponsored by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

NCHS - HUD Data Linkage
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, in collaboration with the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), is pleased to announce the release of the first NCHS-HUD linked data product.

PHA Homelessness Preferences: Web Census Survey Data
In 2012, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) administered a web-based survey to 3,988 public housing agencies (PHA) that administer the Housing Choice Voucher program and/or operate public housing to understand the extent to which PHAs prioritize homeless households for these two forms of housing assistance.

Public-Sector Loans Data

Rate of Foreclosure in Home and ADDI Programs: Survey data

Section 108 Data
Section 108 authorizes entitlement jurisdictions to use future CDBG funds to guarantee repayment of loans for certain kinds of development projects. Econometrica's 2011 survey is a uniquely comprehensive source for qualitative and quantitative information on completed Section 108 projects.

All Datasets

2001 Residential Finance Survey
Comprehensive survey of mortgages for owned and rented housing.

50th Percentile Rent Estimates
Median Rents generated from the Fair Market Rent Process for use in Success Rate Payment Standards.

ACS-HUD Data Linkage

AHS: Housing Affordability Data System
What housing can people afford? What does housing cost?

American Housing Survey
Comprehensive data on the national housing stock.

Annual Inflationary Adjustments and Passbook Rate

Assessment of American Indian Housing Needs and Programs: Final Report

CDBG Income Limits

Components of Inventory Change (CINCH) reports
Where does housing stock come from? Where does it go?

Consolidated Planning/CHAS Data
Custom tabulation of ACS data on housing needs.

Discrimination in Metropolitan Housing Markets: National Results from Phase 1, Phase 2, and Phase 3 of the Housing Discrimination Study (HDS)*

Fair Housing Initiatives Data
The site visit and web survey data were collected as part of a study of the Fair Housing Initiatives Program.

Fair Market Rents
Rents used as the basis for payment standards in the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program.

Family Options Study Data Files

Family Unification Program Youth Data

Feasibility of Developing a National Parcel County Data

Homeowner Assistance Fund Income Limits (HAF)

Homelessness Prediction Model

HOME Income Limits

HOME Rent Limits

HOME Homeownership Value Limits

HTF Homeownership Value Limits

HOPWA Income Limits

Housing Discrimination Against Racial And Ethnic Minorities 2012*

Housing Trust Fund Income Limits

Housing Trust Fund Rent Limits

HUD assisted Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS)
Tenant level data for HUD's largest rental assistance programs.

HUD-USPS Census Tract Crosswalk Files
Reconciles 2010 and 2020 census tracts using administrative address data from the USPS.

Income Limits
Income thresholds for determining eligibility for housing assistance.

Low-Income Housing Tax Credit
Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Data on LIHTC properties placed in service and tenants living in LIHTC units.

Low-Vacancy Areas – Set-Aside Tenant Protection Vouchers

Manufactured Housing Survey
The Manufactured Housing Survey (MHS) is sponsored by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Metropolitan Area Look-Up
Defines Metropolitan status for individually selected counties based on OMB area definitions.

Monitoring of Internal Moisture Loads in Residential Buildings

Moving To Opportunity (MTO)*
MTO is a unique random assignment research effort sponsored by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

Multifamily Tax Subsidy Income Limits
HERA mandated income thresholds for Low-Income Housing Tax Credit and bond financed projects.

NCHS - HUD Data Linkage*
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, in collaboration with the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), is pleased to announce the release of the first NCHS-HUD linked data product.

PHA Homelessness Preferences: Web Census Survey Data*
In 2012, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) administered a web-based survey to 3,988 public housing agencies (PHA) that administer the Housing Choice Voucher program and/or operate public housing to understand the extent to which PHAs prioritize homeless households for these two forms of housing assistance.

Public-Sector Loans Data

Qualified Census Tracts and Difficult Development Areas
Geographically- targeted areas for development in the LIHTC program.

Rate of Foreclosure in Home and ADDI Programs: Survey data

Renewal Funding Inflation Factors
Renewal Funding Inflation Factors are used in the allocation of Housing Choice Voucher funds among Public Housing Agencies.

Sandy Damage Estimates by Block Group*
Sandy Damage Estimates by Block Group

Small Area FMR
Small Area Fair Market Rents (FMRs) for all metropolitan areas.

Small Area Fair Market Rent Demonstration Evaluation Data

Special Tabulations of Households
Households broken out by age, income, tenure, and conditions.

State of the Cities Data Systems*
(Building Permits are the only dataset still updated.)
SOCDS provides a variety of data including building permits, Census data, and crime statistics.

Survey of Construction
The Survey of Construction (SOC) is sponsored by is jointly sponsored by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Census Bureau.

USPS Vacancies Data
Summarizes data on address vacancies by Census tract.

USPS ZIP Code Crosswalk Files
Reconciles USPS ZIP geographies with other administrative geographies.

Utility Allowances
HUD has developed a Utility Schedule Model that enables the user to calculate utility schedules by housing type after entering utility rate information (tariffs).

Wildfire Risk Exposure - California*

* This dataset is no longer updated.

The datasets below are created and maintained by other HUD offices.

Annual Homeless Assessment Report

CDBG Low-Mod Benefit Areas - Census 2000 (HUDExchange.info)

CDBG Low-Mod Benefit Areas - ACS 2006-10 (HUDExchange.info)

CPD Consolidated Plans, Action Plans, and CAPERS (HUDExchange.info)

FHA HECM SF Portfolio (HUD.GOV)

FHA Loan Limits (HUD.GOV)

FHA Multifamily: Maturing Subsidized Mortgages (HUD.GOV)

FHA Multifamily: Mortgages Currently Insured (HUD.GOV)

FHA Multifamily: Multifamily Fiscal Year Production (HUD.GOV)