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 Active Datasets

Data from PD&R

Data from Other HUD Offices

Data No Longer Updated

Dataset Update Schedule

Search Datasets

The following is a list of all datasets (including those which are no longer updated).

Dataset

50th Percentile Rent Estimates
Median Rents generated from the Fair Market Rent process for use in success rate payment standards.

ACS-HUD Data Linkage
The data are based on the linkage of the 2011 through 2018 American Community Survey (ACS) with HUD administrative records for HUD's largest housing assistance programs: Multifamily, Public Housing, and Housing Choice Vouchers.

AHS: Housing Affordability Data System
This dataset is no longer updated.
This dataset categorizes housing units by affordability and households by income, with respect to the Adjusted Median Income, Fair Market Rent (FMR), and poverty income.

American Housing Survey
Comprehensive data on the national housing stock. Data is hosted on Census.gov.

Annual Adjustment Factors
HUD establishes 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 Homelessness Assessment Report (AHAR) and Data
Overseen by HUD's Office of Community Planning and Development (CPD), the Annual Homelessness 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.

Annual Inflationary Adjustments and Passbook Rate
HUD calculates the inflation factor, recalculates the inflation-adjusted values, and posts the revised figures effective for the next calendar year.

Assessment of American Indian Housing Needs and Programs Data
This dataset is no longer updated.
Data documentation supporting the Assessment of American Indian Housing Needs and Programs research sponsored by PD&R.

CDBG Income Limits
The 120 percent income limits data available for limited use as allowed by the applicable Federal Register Notice.

CDBG Low-Mod Benefit Areas - Census 2000
Available on HUDExchange.info, this provides Census 2000 Low- and Moderate-Income Summary Data.

CDBG Low- and Moderate-Income Data
Available on HUDExchange.info, this provides CDBG Low- and Moderate-Income Data Documentation.

Components of Inventory Change (CINCH)
These reports measures changes in the characteristics of the housing stock of the United States. Information is available on the characteristics of units added and removed from the housing stock.

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

CPD Consolidated Plans, Action Plans, and CAPERS
Available on HUDExchange.info, this data is designed to help states and local jurisdictions assess their affordable housing and community development needs and market conditions, and to make data-driven, place-based investment decisions.

Discrimination in Metropolitan Housing Markets: National Results from Phase 1, Phase 2, and Phase 3 of the Housing Discrimination Study (HDS)
This dataset is no longer updated.
Housing Discrimination Study data

Fair Housing Initiatives Data
This dataset is no longer updated.
Site visit and web survey data were collected as part of a study of the Fair Housing Initiatives Program.

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

Family Options Study Data
This dataset is no longer updated.
Data documentation supporting the Family Options Study research sponsored by PD&R.

Family Unification Program Youth Study Data
This dataset is no longer updated.
Data documentation supporting the Family Unification Program Youth Study research sponsored by PD&R.

Feasibility of Developing a National Parcel County Data
Complete documentation on data, standardized across jurisdictions.

FHA HECM Single-Family Portfolio Snapshot
Available on HUD.gov, the HECM Single-Family Portfolio Snapshot consists of a monthly data table and a report generator (Excel pivot table) that can be used to quickly create new reports of interest to the user from the data records.

FHA Loan Limits
Maintained by HUD.gov.

FHA Multifamily: Maturing Subsidized Mortgages
Maintained by HUD.gov.

FHA Multifamily: Mortgages Currently Insured
Maintained by HUD.gov.

FHA Multifamily: Multifamily Fiscal Year Production
Maintained by HUD.gov.

FHA Multifamily: Terminated MF Housing Mortgages
Maintained by HUD.gov.

FHA Single Family Portfolio Snapshot
Available on HUD.gov, the Single-Family Portfolio Snapshot consists of a monthly data table and a report generator (Excel pivot table) that can be used to quickly create new reports of interest to the user from the data records.

Ginnie Mae MBS Disclosure Data
Available on GinnieMae.gov.

Government Sponsored Enterprise Data
This dataset is no longer updated.
HUD published information on the mortgage purchases of GSEs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

HOME Homeownership Value Limits
Section 215(b) of NAHA requires that the initial purchase price or after-rehabilitation value of homeownership units assisted with HOME funds not exceed 95 percent of the area median purchase price for single family housing, as determined by HUD. The limits are provided in this data.

HOME Income Limits
HOME Income Limits data are available from FY 1998 to the present.

HOME Rent Limits
HOME Rent Limits data are available from FY 1998 to the present.

HOME Sales Price Limits
Available on HUDExchange.info, HOME Homeownership Value Limits data included.

Homelessness Prediction Model
This dataset is no longer updated.
Data documentation supporting the Homelessness Prediction Model research sponsored by PD&R.

Homeowner Assistance Fund (HAF) Income Limits
Homeowner Assistance Fund (HAF) Income Limits used for determining eligibility for HAF funds.

HOPWA Income Limits
HOPWA Income Limits are available from 2017 to the present.

Housing and Health Data Dashboard
HUD's Housing and Health Data Dashboard is a resource for locating data that may be helpful for housing and health related research.

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

Housing Trust Fund (HTF) Homeownership Value Limits
The Housing Trust Fund (HTF) statute, section 1338(c)(7)(B)(ii), requires housing for homeownership to have an initial purchase price that meets the requirements of section 215(b)(1) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (HOME statute). The homeownership value limits data are provided here.

Housing Trust Fund (HTF) Income Limits
Housing Trust Fund (HTF) Income Limits are available from FY 2016 to the present.

Housing Trust Fund (HTF) Rent Limits
Housing Trust Fund (HTF) Rent Limits are available from FY 2016 to the present.

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 (LIHTC) Data
Data on LIHTC properties placed in service and tenants living in LIHTC units.

Low-Vacancy Areas – Set-Aside Tenant Protection Vouchers
HUD identifies low-vacancy areas for purposes of funding the Tenant-Protection Vouchers (TPVs) set-aside for certain at-risk households in low-vacancy areas.

Manufactured Housing Survey
The Manufactured Housing Survey (MHS) is sponsored by 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 Building Data
This dataset is no longer updated.
Data supporting the Monitoring of Internal Moisture Loads in Residential Buildings research sponsored by PD&R.

Moving To Opportunity (MTO)
This dataset is no longer updated.
MTO was a unique random assignment research effort sponsored by HUD.

Multifamily Tax Subsidy Income Limits
The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (HERA) mandated income thresholds for Low-Income Housing Tax Credit and bond financed projects.

Multifamily Utility Allowance Factors
This dataset provides Utility Allowance Factors (UAFs) for certain Multifamily Housing properties.

Multifamily: Active Section 202 Direct Loans (HUD.GOV)
Maintained by HUD.gov.

Multifamily: Limited Denials of Participation
Available on HUD.gov, this is an Excel file of HUD Limited Denial of Participation List.

Multifamily: List of Potential Recipient Properties (Property B) for 8(bb) Transfer (HUD.GOV)
Maintained by HUD.gov.

Multifamily: Multifamily Assistance and Section 8 Contracts Database (HUD.GOV)
Maintained by HUD.gov.

Multifamily: Physical Inspection Scores by State
Available on HUD.gov, this list shows the inspection results of the most recent inspection.

Multifamily: Property / Contract / Rent & Utility Allowance Datasets (HUD.GOV)
Maintained by HUD.gov.

Multifamily: TRACS Tenant Characteristics Report
HUD assesses the physical condition of all HUD related multifamily projects pursuant to its regulations. Available HUD.gov, the data shows the inspection results of the most recent inspection.

NCHS - HUD Data Linkage
This dataset is no longer updated.
This linked data product was created by HUD in collaboration with the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).

Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) Data
This dataset is no longer 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. Note: The NSP Income Limits are the only portion of the NSP Dataset still updated.

Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) Income Limits
Neighborhood Stabilization Program Income Limits are available from FY 2008 to the present.

PHA Homelessness Preferences: Web Census Survey Data
This dataset is no longer updated.
In 2012, 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
This dataset is no longer updated.
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 HUD, 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.

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

Public-Sector Loans Data
This dataset is no longer updated.
Data supporting the Public-Sector Loans to Private-Sector Businesses: An Assessment of HUD-Supported Local Economic Development Lending Activities research sponsored by HUD. The research is based in part on a database of economic development activities; phone surveys of business owners and community development administrators; and review of loan files.

Qualified Census Tracts (QCTs) and Difficult Development Area (DDAs)
Geographically-targeted areas for development in the LIHTC program.

Rates of Foreclosure in HOME and ADDI Programs Survey Data
This dataset is no longer updated.
Data supporting the Rates of Foreclosure in HOME and ADDI (American Dream Downpayment Initiative) Programs research sponsored by PD&R.

Renewal Funding Inflation Factors
Renewal Funding Inflation Factors (RFIFs) are used in the allocation of Housing Choice Voucher funds among public housing agencies.

Rental Housing Finance Survey
The purpose of the Rental Housing Finance Survey (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)
Maintained by HUD.gov.

Residential Finance Survey
Updated data is available from Census.
Comprehensive survey of mortgages for owned and rented housing.

Section 108 Data
This dataset is no longer updated.
The data from this 2011 survey by Econometrica provides qualitative and quantitative information on completed Section 108 projects.

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

Small Area Fair Market Rent Demonstration Evaluation Data
This dataset is no longer updated.
Small Area Fair Market Rent Demonstration Evaluation Data sponsored by HUD.

Socio-Demographic Data Dashboards
Interactive tract-level demographic and administrative data on local government CDBG jurisdictions, HOME Consortias, and PHAs.

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

State of the Cities Data Systems – Building Permits
The State of the Cities Data Systems (SOCDS) Building Permits database contains data on permits for residential construction issued by nearly 20,000 jurisdictions collected in the Census Bureau's Building Permits Survey.

State of the Cities Data Systems – Other
This dataset is no longer updated.
SOCDS provides a variety of data including Census data, crime statistics, and employment rates.

Survey of Construction
The Survey of Construction (SOC) is sponsored by is jointly sponsored by 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 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 HUD.

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
This dataset is no longer updated.
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.
Maps and data displaying wildfire risk exposure of households in the state of California.