Rental Housing Finance Survey (RHFS)

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Rental Housing Finance Survey (RHFS)

August 15, 2024

The Rental Housing Finance Survey provides a current and continuous measure of financial, mortgage, and property characteristics of rental housing properties in the United States. The survey focuses on the financing of rental housing properties, with emphasis on new mortgages, refinanced mortgages, or similar devices such as deeds of trust or land contracts, and the characteristics of debt originations. RHFS included single-family residential and multifamily residential properties with at least one housing unit intended for rent. Data collection was conducted from June through November in 2015, 2018 and 2021.

2015

API Call: api.census.gov/data/2015/rhfs
Geography: api.census.gov/data/2015/rhfs/geography.html
Variables: api.census.gov/data/2015/rhfs/variables.html
Example Call: Total Operational Expenses Per Housing Unit in 2015

api.census.gov/data/2015/rhfs?get=TBL_NAME,SUBTABLE_L1,CHARACTERISTIC,FGSZ_NAME,BYGROUP,BYGROUP_VALUE,ESTIMATE_PROPERTIES,MOE_PROPERTIES&TABLE_CODE=4&FGSZ=0&BGR=1&ucgid=0100000US&key=YOUR_KEY_GOES_HERE

For detailed information about the values available, please see Technical Information for RHFS – www.census.gov/programs-surveys/rhfs/technical-documentation.html.