Click on the cities for home ownership details. Red cities have the lowest rates of home ownership. Greener cities have the highest. Yellow & orange fall between.
Proponents of home ownership argue that it ties people more closely to a community and makes people more invested in taking care of a neighborhood.
There are many factors that determine how much of a community is made up of homeowners vs. renters - age of the community, income, whether a town is mostly single-family housing or multi-family housing.
The map above shows the percentage of the town's population that owns a home, based on figures from the 2010 census. A full window view of the map is available here. Click each city for details.
Benicia has a higher homeownership rate than its immediate neighbors at 72.3 percent. Vallejo is at 59.7 percent and Martinez is at 69.1 percent.
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