HUD User Datasets
HUD provides interested researchers with access to the original data sets 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.
HUD announces the next competition for access to data from two of the most important randomized social experiments ever conducted, the Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing (MTO) demonstration and the Family Options Study (FOS). A request for proposals from policy or research organizations and their affiliates for the competition can be found here.
MOST ACCESSED DATASETS
DATASETS
All Datasets
Program Operations and Planning Data
Housing Surveys Data
Program Participation Data
HUD Sponsored Reserach 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 Homeless Assessment Report
The Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) is a HUD report to the U.S. Congress that provides nationwide estimates of homelessness, including information about the demographic characteristics of homeless persons, service use patterns, and the capacity to house homeless persons.
CDBG Low-Mod Benefit Areas - Census 2000 (HUDExchange.info)
CDBG Low-Mod Benefit Areas - ACS 2006-10 (HUDExchange.info)
Consolidated Planning
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.
Geospatial Data Resources
Search for and discover HUD's geospatial datasets, application programming interfaces (APIs), and web-based mapping tools. Please note that eGIS Storefront is replacing the old Geospatial Data Sets and Resources page.
Home and HTF Homeownership Value Limits
HOME Sales Price Limits (HUDExchange.info)
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 Mapping Tool
This tool allows NSP grantees to identify areas of greatest need.
Neighborhood Stabilization Data
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.
Promise Zone Mapping Tool
This tool assists applicants to HUD's Promise Zone initiative prepare data to submit with their 2013 application by allowing applicants to draw the exact location of the area they intend to serve.
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).
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?
Homeless Point-in-Time Data (HUDExchange.info)
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.
Program Participation 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)
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.
Housing Choice Voucher Program Support-VMS HAP Data (HUD.GOV)
HUD assisted Public Use Microdata Sample
Tenant level data for HUD's largest rental assistance programs.
Low-Income Housing Tax Credit
The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) is the most important resource for creating affordable housing in the United States today. The LIHTC database, created by HUD and available to the public since 1997, contains information on 40,502 projects and 2.6 million housing units placed in service between 1987 and 2013.
Multifamily Assistance Section 8 Contracts (HUD.GOV)
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.
HUD Sponsored Research Studies Data
Assessment of American Indian Housing Needs and Programs: Final Report
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 Unification Program Youth Data
Feasibility of Developing a National Parcel County Data
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.
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.
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 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 Homeless Assessment Report
The Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) is a HUD report to the U.S. Congress that provides nationwide estimates of homelessness, including information about the demographic characteristics of homeless persons, service use patterns, and the capacity to house homeless persons.
Assessment of American Indian Housing Needs and Programs: Final Report
CDBG Low-Mod Benefit Areas - Census 2000 (HUDExchange.info)
CDBG Low-Mod Benefit Areas - ACS 2006-10 (HUDExchange.info)
Components of Inventory Change (CINCH) reports
Where does housing stock come from? Where does it go?
Consolidated Planning
Custom tabulation of ACS data on housing needs.
CPD Consolidated Plans, Action Plans, and CAPERS (HUDExchange.info)
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 Unification Program Youth Data
Feasibility of Developing a National Parcel County Data
FHA HECM SF Portfolio (HUD.GOV)
FHA Multifamily: Maturing Subsidized Mortgages (HUD.GOV)
FHA Multifamily: Mortgages Currently Insured (HUD.GOV)
FHA Multifamily: Multifamily Fiscal Year Production (HUD.GOV)
FHA Multifamily: Terminated MF Housing Mortgages (HUD.GOV)
FHA Single Family Portfolio Snapshot (HUD.GOV)
Geospatial Data Resources
Search for and discover HUD's geospatial datasets, application programming interfaces (APIs), and web-based mapping tools. Please note that eGIS Storefront is replacing the old Geospatial Data Sets and Resources page.
Ginnie Mae MBS Disclosure Data (GinnieMae.gov)
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.
Homeless Point-in-Time Data (HUDExchange.info)
Home and HTF Homeownership Value Limits
HOME Sales Price Limits (HUDExchange.info)
Housing Choice Voucher Program Support-VMS HAP Data (HUD.GOV)
Housing Discrimination Against Racial And Ethnic Minorities 2012
Housing Trust Fund Income Limits
Housing Trust Fund Rent Limits
HUD assisted Public Use Microdata Sample
Tenant level data for HUD's largest rental assistance programs.
Income Limits
Income thresholds for determining eligibility for housing assistance.
Low-Income Housing Tax Credit
The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) is the most important resource for creating affordable housing in the United States today. The LIHTC database, created by HUD and available to the public since 1997, contains information on 40,502 projects and 2.6 million housing units placed in service between 1987 and 2013.
Low-Vacancy Areas – Set-Aside Tenant Protection Vouchers
Manufactured Home and Subprime Lender List
Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data does not include a field that identifies whether an individual loan application is a subprime or manufactured home loan application.
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: Active Section 202 Direct Loans (HUD.GOV)
Multifamily: Limited Denials of Participation (HUD.GOV)
Multifamily: List of Potential Recipient Properties (Property B) for 8(bb) Transfer (HUD.GOV)
Multifamily: Multifamily Assistance and Section 8 Contracts Database (HUD.GOV)
Multifamily: Physical Inspection Scores (current) (HUD.GOV)
Multifamily: Property / Contract / Rent & Utility Allowance Datasets (HUD.GOV)
Multifamily: TRACS Tenant Characteristics Report (HUD.GOV)
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.
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.
Neighborhood Mapping Tool
This tool allows NSP grantees to identify areas of greatest need.
Neighborhood Stabilization Data
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.
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.
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.
Promise Zone Mapping Tool
This tool assists applicants to HUD's Promise Zone initiative prepare data to submit with their 2013 application by allowing applicants to draw the exact location of the area they intend to serve.
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.
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.
Resident Characteristics Report (HUD.GOV)
Sandy Damage Estimates by Block Group
Sandy Damage Estimates by Block Group
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.
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.
State of the Cities Data Systems
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.
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.
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).