Census Base Rent Calculation for
Richland County, ND

The 2000 Census Base Rent for Richland County, ND used by HUD is $424.

This rent is the 40th percentile standard quality rent for Richland County, ND because the standard quality rent is higher than the recent mover rent of .

User Note

In computing 2000 Census Base Rents, HUD actually uses data on rent distributions that are prohibited from public release under Title XIII to protect the confidentiality of respondents. The distributions used in this demonstration are rounded versions of the actual, protected data.

The rounding scheme is as follows:

0, count = 0
1 to 7, count = 4
all other counts are rounded to the nearest 5 (e.g., 10, 15, 20, 25, etc.)

CALCULATIONS USING THE ROUNDED DATA MAY NOT PRODUCE THE SAME RESULT AS CALCULATIONS USING THE PROTECTED DATA. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HUD'S ACTUAL RESULTS AND THOSE DEMONSTRATED HERE IS INVERSELY RELATED TO THE SIZE OF THE FMR AREA. THAT IS, THE LARGER THE AREA, THE CLOSER THE CALCULATION BASED ON THE ROUNDED DATA IS LIKELY TO BE TO THE CENSUS BASE RENT COMPUTED FROM THE PROTECTED DATA.

Recent Mover and Standard Quality Rents

HUD uses rents for recent movers in standard quality units to set the 2000 Census Base Rent. "Standard Quality" units and rents are determined by limiting the full Census sample by including only responses meeting the following criteria:

a. Occupied rental units paying cash rent
b. Specified renter ? on 10 acres or less
c. with full plumbing
d. with full kitchen
e. built before 1999
f. meals not included in rent

"Recent Mover" rents are determined by further limiting the "Standard Quality" sample with the following additional criterion:

g. moved in within the last two years

A Microsoft Excel file containing the unsummarized versions of the publicly releasable recent mover and standard quality 2-bedroom rent distributions for Richland County, ND is available here.

The 2000 Census did not include a question that could be used to filter public or assisted housing from the rental distributions, however HUD is required to ensure that FMRs exclude non-market rental housing in their computation. Therefore, HUD excludes all units falling below a specified rent level determined from public housing rents in HUD's program databases as likely to be either assisted housing or otherwise at a below-market rent (perhaps due to quality problems not otherwise captured by the Census questions). The "public housing" rent cut-off in Richland County, ND is .

40th Percentile Recent Mover Rent

The following table and calculations demonstrate how the 40th percentile Census 2000 recent mover rent is determined for Richland County, ND using the public distribution of recent mover rents for the FMR area.

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