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Langlade County has highest share of rent-burdened households
A household is considered rent-burdened if it spends more than 30 percent of its income on rent.
A recent study by the Wisconsin Policy Forum found that Langlade County in northern Wisconsin had the highest percentage of rent-burdened households in the state (55.8 percent). Milwaukee, Kenosha, and Walworth counties in southeast Wisconsin, and Iron County in northern Wisconsin, round out the top five most rent-burdened counties.
Over half of renter households in all five counties were spending more than 30 percent of their income on rent.
This information is a service of the Wisconsin Policy Forum, the state’s leading resource for nonpartisan state and local government research and civic education.
