Housing Affordability Index

The Housing Affordability Index, calculated by the Runstad Center for Real Estate Studies, measures the ability of a middle-income family to carry the mortgage payments on a median-price home. When the index is 100 there is a balance

between the family’s ability to pay and the cost. Higher indexes indicate housing is more affordable.

For example, an index of 126 means that a median-income family has 26 percent more income than the bare minimum required to qualify for a mortgage on a median-price home. An index of 80 means that a median-income family has less income than the minimum required.

Querying over HTTP

Splitgraph serves as an HTTP API that lets you run SQL queries directly on this data to power Web applications. For example:

curl https://data.splitgraph.com/sql/query/ddn \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d@-<<EOF
{"sql": "
    SELECT *
    FROM \"internal-open-piercecountywa-gov/housing-affordability-index-q79c-akif\".\"housing_affordability_index\"
    LIMIT 100 
"}
EOF

See the Splitgraph documentation for more information.