Federal Rental Assistance by Program by ZIP Code
Data current as of December 2025 — recomputed by ZipCheckup from federal data each build.
HUD delivers federal rental assistance through several programs. As of December 2025, of 5,118,086 reported subsidized rental units, 2,784,302 (54.4%) are Housing Choice Vouchers, the tenant-based subsidy a household uses to rent on the private market; 1,320,112 (25.8%) are project-based Section 8 attached to specific buildings; 848,188 (16.6%) are public housing run by local authorities; and 153,673 (3.0%) are Section 202 and 811 housing for the elderly and people with disabilities. Counts are of units HUD reports by ZIP code, and suppressed small cells are omitted.
As of December 2025, of the 5,118,086 federally subsidized rental units HUD reports, 54.4% are Housing Choice Vouchers, 25.8% are project-based Section 8, and 16.6% are public housing.
By state
We report two independent facts side by side and do not rank states. A larger count reflects the size of a state's inventory and its reporting activity, not a judgment about water safety.
| state | hcv units | pbs8 units | public housing units |
|---|---|---|---|
| AK | 4,997 | 1,176 | 1,237 |
| AL | 41,397 | 20,548 | 28,005 |
| AR | 28,646 | 11,056 | 10,137 |
| AZ | 26,482 | 9,007 | 3,510 |
| CA | 364,777 | 102,847 | 22,029 |
| CO | 38,366 | 17,296 | 6,066 |
| CT | 49,146 | 23,809 | 15,214 |
| DC | 16,700 | 9,733 | 7,445 |
| DE | 6,026 | 4,697 | 1,677 |
| FL | 129,385 | 43,271 | 22,258 |
| GA | 70,479 | 37,567 | 23,765 |
| HI | 14,487 | 3,145 | 4,728 |
| IA | 24,276 | 11,606 | 3,942 |
| ID | 8,035 | 3,807 | 610 |
| IL | 118,084 | 65,046 | 40,106 |
| IN | 45,697 | 30,392 | 9,904 |
| KS | 14,875 | 11,529 | 7,777 |
| KY | 38,980 | 22,842 | 19,990 |
| LA | 59,139 | 15,703 | 15,963 |
| MA | 100,102 | 59,426 | 29,514 |
| MD | 59,207 | 29,102 | 9,257 |
| ME | 15,551 | 8,030 | 2,787 |
| MI | 66,324 | 57,772 | 17,153 |
| MN | 39,036 | 35,731 | 14,174 |
| MO | 48,292 | 25,335 | 15,547 |
| MS | 28,669 | 18,328 | 8,385 |
| MT | 7,624 | 4,334 | 1,418 |
| NC | 72,976 | 27,960 | 22,813 |
| ND | 10,346 | 3,022 | 1,316 |
| NE | 14,342 | 6,345 | 6,593 |
| NH | 12,019 | 5,827 | 3,456 |
| NJ | 89,303 | 48,751 | 25,969 |
| NM | 15,647 | 5,736 | 4,194 |
| NV | 17,615 | 3,765 | 2,375 |
| NY | 289,083 | 108,822 | 165,066 |
| OH | 106,175 | 79,842 | 31,931 |
| OK | 29,122 | 13,003 | 10,048 |
| OR | 43,022 | 10,059 | 2,243 |
| PA | 101,594 | 61,729 | 55,139 |
| PR | 21,160 | 11,444 | 37,142 |
| RI | 11,556 | 16,185 | 8,960 |
| SC | 30,431 | 18,905 | 11,511 |
| SD | 7,178 | 5,007 | 1,507 |
| TN | 42,204 | 42,985 | 17,647 |
| TX | 182,284 | 60,225 | 38,310 |
| UT | 14,046 | 4,317 | 1,128 |
| VA | 60,822 | 30,683 | 12,537 |
| VT | 9,392 | 3,369 | 421 |
| WA | 67,737 | 15,237 | 9,850 |
| WI | 34,552 | 31,757 | 9,825 |
| WV | 16,277 | 11,186 | 6,303 |
| WY | 2,752 | 2,203 | 638 |
Open data, licensed CC BY 4.0 · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19427201
How we compute this
We read HUD's Picture of Subsidized Households, the same ZIP-level extract behind our all-programs total, and take the per-program rows rather than the summary. For each ZIP code we keep the program-total row for each program and group the units into Housing Choice Vouchers, project-based Section 8, public housing, Section 202 and 811 housing for the elderly and people with disabilities, and a small remainder of Moderate Rehabilitation and Section 236 units. Across 23,017 ZIP codes in 52 states and jurisdictions, that comes to 5,118,086 assisted units.
Summed across programs, the per-program units reconcile to HUD's all-programs total for each ZIP code, so no unit is counted twice. Housing Choice Vouchers are the largest program at 54.4% of reported units, followed by project-based Section 8 at 25.8% and public housing at 16.6%. The figures are grouped by state and recompute on every build.
HUD suppresses small-cell counts to protect privacy, marking them with negative codes rather than real numbers. We treat any suppressed or non-positive value as not reported, never as zero, so a program with no entry in a ZIP code is omitted rather than counted as having none. A ZIP code without any reported assistance does not appear at all.
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Housing Choice Vouchers, Section 8, and public housing?
They are different HUD programs. A Housing Choice Voucher, also called tenant-based Section 8, is a portable subsidy a household uses to rent a home on the private market. Project-based Section 8 attaches the subsidy to specific privately owned buildings. Public housing is owned and run by local public housing authorities. As of December 2025, vouchers are the largest at 54.4% of reported assisted units, project-based Section 8 is 25.8%, and public housing is 16.6%. according to ZipCheckup's reading of federal data as of December 2025.
How many homes does each federal rental program cover?
Of 5,118,086 federally subsidized rental units HUD reports as of December 2025, about 2,784,302 are Housing Choice Vouchers, 1,320,112 are project-based Section 8, 848,188 are public housing, and 153,673 are Section 202 and 811 housing for the elderly and people with disabilities. HUD publishes a figure for each covered ZIP code, so you can look up your own.