Regional Affordable Housing Dashboard

About

Accessible metrics and performance measures are key tools for understanding King County’s housing affordability crisis and demonstrating the impact of solutions to address it.

King County is in the midst of a sustained housing crisis.

In 2018, the Regional Affordable Housing Task Force (RAHTF) adopted a Five Year Action Plan to spur action to ensure all low-income households in King County have a safe and healthy home that costs less than 30% of their income by 2040. When households spend more than 30% of their income on housing, they are cost burdened and struggle to afford other necessities. Households are severely cost burdened when they pay more than 50% of their income on housing. Cost burden is only one measure for understanding affordability in King County. Explore the data below for a more complete picture of who is most affected and the remaining gap to meet the affordable housing need.

In 2023, 70% of low-income households in King County spent more than 30% of their income on housing.

Measuring impact

This dashboard can be used to assess the degree to which the collective actions taken to implement the Regional Affordable Housing Task Force’s 2018 recommendations are having their intended impact. Where year-over-year data is unavailable, baseline data is offered. In future years, progress will be measured against these baseline indicators and new indicators to more effectively measure the scale of impact and assess who is leading the way. This includes data to measure progress to increase regional collaboration (Goal 1) and better engage more stakeholders in addressing the need for more affordable housing solutions (Goal 7). 

Jurisdictional housing affordability snapshots

Housing affordability conditions vary across jurisdictions in King County and so does progress to implement housing affordability solutions. Please note that the housing policy section does not show the extent to which a policy is implemented within a jurisdiction or how effective it is. It simply reports whether or not the policy is in effect somewhere within the jurisdiction. Explore these snapshots to learn more.

The Regional Affordable Housing Dashboard was last updated in November 2025. Updates were limited to data points from Census Bureau surveys (e.g., American Community Survey), the King County Evictions Database, and the King County Income-restricted Housing Database due to data availability. See Data Notes, Methodology & Glossary for more information.