Many residents in Northeast states are renters.
The company IPX1031 found in a recent report that the highest percentage of renters in the U.S. can be found on the East Coast.
The study analyzed the U.S. Census Bureau housing data of more than 300 cities with a population of 100,000 or more and conducted a survey of over 1,000 people from around the country in November.
Newark, New Jersey, has the most, with more than 79% of residents renting. Three other New Jersey cities were also home to the most renters.
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Out of the top five, the two other cities were in Connecticut.
Of the top 10 cities with the highest percentage of renters, nine out of 10 are in the Northeast.
Miami was the outlier: ranked in eighth place.
Conversely, the most homeowners are located in the West and the South.
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Buckeye, Arizona, is the city with the highest rate of homeownership, calculated at 92.39%.
The other places that ranked in the top 15 percentage of renters outside the Northeast include three cities in California, Irving, Texas, and Provo, Utah.
They also found that nearly three in four American renters want to buy a home, with 90% saying money was holding them back. Furthermore, 35% cited interest rates, 19% did not want debt and 14% did not want the responsibilities of owning.
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In the next two years, 23% of renters planned on buying while 15% plan to do so in the next three to four years and 30% would buy in the next five years. One in five renters said they would buy a home in the next decade or longer.
