Federally Subsidized Housing by ZIP Code

Data current as of December 2025 — recomputed by ZipCheckup from federal data each build.

HUD reports 5,118,148 federally subsidized rental units across 23,017 ZIP codes, home to about 8.8 million people (8,770,244 in all), as of December 2025. These units span all HUD rental programs: public housing, Housing Choice Vouchers (Section 8), project-based Section 8, and Section 202/811 housing for the elderly and people with disabilities. Only ZIP codes where HUD reports assisted units are counted, and small-cell counts are suppressed for privacy.

As of December 2025, federal rental assistance through HUD reaches 23,017 ZIP codes, covering 5,118,148 subsidized housing units that are home to roughly 8.8 million people.

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.

statezip counttotal units
AK617,921
AL45292,445
AR41252,253
AZ26741,297
CA1,487506,207
CO35263,579
CT23790,431
DC2634,535
DE5213,153
FL868204,311
GA537135,305
HI8623,563
IA60641,202
ID15412,915
IL848230,902
IN52289,035
KS32635,253
KY50383,848
LA38593,952
MA504195,143
MD347101,874
ME29127,341
MI700145,502
MN61592,247
MO61093,333
MS33656,804
MT16214,079
NC726128,356
ND15414,967
NE26828,274
NH13722,543
NJ540169,005
NM17026,549
NV11624,494
NY1,406579,412
OH915226,058
OK34554,003
OR31657,335
PA1,240226,023
PR8870,540
RI7138,447
SC34363,639
SD14314,026
TN440106,201
TX1,306287,923
UT13620,246
VA591107,149
VT17913,512
WA45495,957
WI57878,286
WV46834,619
WY405,793
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How we compute this

We use HUD's Picture of Subsidized Households, taking the 'Summary of All HUD Programs' total for each ZIP code. Across 23,017 ZIP codes, HUD reports 5,118,148 assisted rental units, of which 4,428,106 were occupied, housing about 8.8 million people in all. The data covers public housing, Housing Choice Vouchers, project-based Section 8, and Section 202/811 housing for the elderly and people with disabilities.

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, and we sum occupancy and population only where HUD reports them. A ZIP code without an entry has no reported HUD-subsidized housing — it is omitted rather than counted as having none.

Counts are grouped by state and recompute on every build, spanning 52 states and jurisdictions. Each ZIP code maps directly to the figures HUD publishes for it.

Source: HUD Picture of Subsidized Households
Every number here is recomputed from public federal data on each build by open-source code in the ZipCheckup repository; a dated CSV snapshot is published with each finding. No data does not mean safe.

Frequently asked questions

How many homes get federal rental assistance, and where?

HUD reports about 5,118,148 federally subsidized rental units across 23,017 ZIP codes, home to roughly 8.8 million people, as of December 2025. That includes public housing, Housing Choice Vouchers (Section 8), and project-based assistance. HUD publishes a figure for each covered ZIP code, so you can look up your own. according to ZipCheckup's reading of federal data as of December 2025.

Does my ZIP having no subsidized-housing data mean there is none?

Usually, but not always. HUD lists a ZIP code when it reports assisted units there, and it suppresses very small counts for privacy. If your ZIP has no entry, HUD reports no subsidized units for it as of December 2025 — ZipCheckup never fills a missing ZIP in with a zero, because a suppressed small count is not the same as none.