Figure 1: Ten Highest-Cost

Local Housing Market Areas - 2006

(Percent of SSI Needed to Rent a

One-Bedroom Housing Unit)

1. Columbia (MD)

193.2%

2. Washington (DC/MD/VA),

188.1%

3. Boston MSA - NH only*

184.8%

4. Nantucket County (MA)

175.8%

5. Honolulu (HI)

175.5%

6. Maui County (HI)

175.1%

7. Westchester County (NY)

173.9%

8. Middlesex-Somerset-Hunterdon (NJ)

168.4%

9. Nassau-Suffolk (NY)

166.5%

10. Stamford-Norwalk (CT)

165.2%

* A very small portion of the Boston Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) covers certain New Hampshire communities near the Massachusetts border.