A median two-bedroom takes 25.3% of what a typical college graduate earns (2026)
Ten years after starting college the typical student earns $59,979 a year, or $4,998 a month; a median two-bedroom at $1,263 takes 25.3% of it, below the 30% the federal government treats as affordable. Civic Forecast calculation from Department of Education College Scorecard median earnings and HUD Fair Market Rents (2027). Gross of tax.
Induced by API Automations for Civic Forecast from federal open data. Each finding names the datasets it was computed from. How this is calculated.