The City of Richmond

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Richmond was home to 229,395 people and had 113,481 housing units in 2022. Since 2010, Richmond has added an average of 2,100 people and 1,200 housing units per year.
Fifty-seven percent of households were renters and 53 percent of renters had unaffordable housing costs.

Sources: Census Population and Housing Unit Estimates, Decennial Census, American Community Survey (2018-22), and the HIT survey of local jurisdictions.

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Structural Racism

Discriminatory actions and racist public policies have produced inequitable outcomes for Black, Indigenous, and people of color in the Washington region, including lower incomes and wealth, lower homeownership rates, and higher rates of housing cost burden.

Housing Context

Understanding how household incomes relate to the supply of affordable rental and homeownership units will inform jurisdictions' efforts to meet the current and future housing needs of residents.