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Hillsborough County · Florida

Tampa, FL housing costs

What a home costs to buy and to rent here, how old the housing stock is, and how much of a paycheck rent takes — all from Census ACS 5-year estimates.

Quick answer

The median home in Tampa, FL is worth $375,300 and median gross rent is $1,567 a month. That is 24% above the national median home value of $303,400. 50.2% of occupied homes are owner-occupied, against 65% nationally.

Median home value
$375,300#36 of 94 metros
Median gross rent
$1,567/mo#27 of 94 metros
Owner-occupied
50.2%US average 65%
Median year built
1984Half the homes here are older than this

Can a median household here buy a median home?

Price-to-income is the plainest affordability yardstick there is.

Tampa's median household earns $71,302 a year while the median home is worth $375,300. That is a price-to-income ratio of 5.3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally. Lenders have historically treated anything above 4× as stretched. Renters at the median put 32.5% of household income into gross rent; 30% is the federal threshold for “cost-burdened”.

Related data for Tampa

The same household, seen from three angles.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates

Tables B25077, B25064, B25003, B25035 and B25071, 2019-2023 ACS 5-year, Census place 1,271,000. Values are place-level, not metro-area-wide.