U.S. Renters Worry More Than Homeowners About Housing Costs

(RECAP: Americans who rent their home are nearly twice as likely as those who own their home to say they worry about not being able to pay their housing costs. While upper-income Americans are more likely to own and lower-income Americans are more likely to rent, renters worry more than homeowners at all income levels. These results are based on more than 5,000 combined interviews from Gallup’s 2013-2016 Economy and Personal Finance surveys. Gallup has consistently found renters are more worried than homeowners about making housing payments, both overall and by household income level, in the 16 years it has conducted the Economy and Personal Finance survey. But the gap in homeowner-renter worry has increased among both middle- and upper-income owners compared with the past.)