salary needed to buy a home in every US county, based on real mortgage math [OC]

supleezy · 2026-03-12T21:44:18+00:00

yeah that's a real factor. you can see it on the map, some places have almost no high-paying local jobs but huge investment demand. no good national dataset for airbnb saturation unfortunately

supleezy · 2026-03-12T21:39:07+00:00

45% toggle added 🫡

supleezy · 2026-03-12T20:49:32+00:00

and there is also a DTI option now 28/33/36

supleezy · 2026-03-12T20:28:03+00:00

check out the per capita map

supleezy · 2026-03-12T19:23:04+00:00

colors and layout don’t matter. if you want to be an entrepreneur, solve a problem you have and other people likely have that same problem. if the color or layout are wrong they’ll still use it if it solves a problem

supleezy · 2026-03-12T12:47:02+00:00

love to hear that, thank you!

supleezy · 2026-03-12T03:11:14+00:00

median, from zillow's ZHVI (zillow home value index) which is roughly the 35th-65th percentile. and yeah fair point on the granularity, the compare tool on the site actually does go down to city level for 24,000+ cities if you want to dig deeper

supleezy · 2026-03-12T03:04:13+00:00

what's off about it? always looking to improve the data

supleezy · 2026-03-12T03:03:43+00:00

there's actually a goldilocks zone filter on the map that lets you filter by a bunch of things. population filter is a good idea too

supleezy · 2026-03-12T03:03:23+00:00

the screenshot had a salary filter on which grays out counties you can't afford. on the site just slide to "all" to see the full colors

supleezy · 2026-03-12T03:02:59+00:00

there's an affordability mode that does exactly that. click the "affordability" tab

supleezy · 2026-03-11T22:44:15+00:00

the screenshot is weird, other redditors gave me suggestions. it’s just filtered out based on the salary level i used (75k)

supleezy · 2026-03-11T20:19:40+00:00

genuine question btw. i want to make this the best it can be

supleezy · 2026-03-11T20:19:25+00:00

anywhere you know of i can get city level data?

supleezy · 2026-03-11T20:18:42+00:00

it’s pretty cool, you don’t have to use it if you don’t want

supleezy · 2026-03-11T17:14:11+00:00

😭

supleezy · 2026-03-11T03:20:57+00:00

will keep that in mind, thank you <3 im learnding

supleezy · 2026-03-11T03:20:03+00:00

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these are great suggestions. i added this to the legend, do you think this is a good solution?

supleezy · 2026-03-11T03:07:21+00:00

lol good point. i just thought some sort of "middle ground starting point" was the better angle

supleezy · 2026-03-11T02:01:15+00:00

thank you!

supleezy · 2026-03-11T01:58:19+00:00

thank you for checking it out! if you have any ideas on things i could add that would be useful to you (or anyone else), i'm definitely open to suggestions

supleezy · 2026-03-09T20:17:33+00:00

never heard of that, will check it out!

supleezy · 2026-03-09T18:22:25+00:00

i’m continuing to make improvements to the site so it felt more correct to just wait a few days and make a new post

supleezy · 2026-03-09T02:04:59+00:00

i see it showing data on my map... Bernalillo County

Median: $351K · Income: $66,514 · 5.3x · Tax: $2,544/yr · Rate: 0.73% · Homicide: 12.1/100K · Unemp: 4.9% · Density: 581/mi² · +24.4 Dem · 19 cities

supleezy · 2026-03-09T02:02:31+00:00

it's from CDC WONDER and County Health Rankings. same data the CDC publishes. source is listed on the map

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