The North Carolina Housing Finance Agency released a new tool, NC Housing Snapshot, to make turning public data sources into actionable insights easier in North Carolina.
The Housing Snapshot is an interactive, online tool showcasing data on the state of housing in North Carolina as a whole and in each of the state’s 100 counties. It brings together a wide range of data—including housing costs, vacancy rates, demographic trends and housing production—to provide a comprehensive view of housing in the state.
The data are displayed in a series of five dashboards, accessed using navigation buttons across the top of the tool.
- Landing page (see Figure 1): This page shows the number and percent of low-income households who live in housing unaffordable to them.
- Demographics page: This page shows demographic information about North Carolina’s population, including tenure, household income, age and race and ethnicity. This information can provide insights into who makes up our communities, how populations are changing, and what their needs might be.
- Housing Affordability page: This page shows trends in housing affordability, including housing costs, cost burden, and the interplay between demographics and the market dynamics driving affordability trends.
- Housing Supply and Demand page: This page shows some of the key drivers of housing demand and supply, including population change, vacancy rates and trends in housing permit activity.
- Housing Type and Conditions: This page provides data to help people understand a housing market’s health and stability with data on the type of structures, bedroom composition, age of housing units and distribution of units lacking complete facilities.
