BRIEF3.C Housing instability: Number and percentage of renter households with children ages 0–17 that are not current on rent by type of housing instability experienced, August 19, 2020–January 10, 2022

Characteristic	Total period 8/19/2020–1/10/2020	Survey intervals
Characteristic	Total period 8/19/2020–1/10/2020	8/19/2020–10/26/2020	10/28/2020–1/18/2021	1/20/2021–3/9/2021	4/12/2021–6/21/2021	6/23/2021–8/30/2021	9/1/2021–1/10/2022
Number of renter households with children (in thousands)^a	12,761	—	—	—	—	—	—
Type of housing instability
Households not current on rent
Number (in thousands)	2,969	2,907	3,441	3,157	2,593	2,766	2,868
Percent	23.3	22.8	27.0	24.7	20.3	21.7	22.5
Households not current on rent and reporting eviction is somewhat or very likely within next 2 months
Number (in thousands)	1,407	1,370	1,689	1,496	1,203	1,381	1,282
Percent	11.0	10.7	13.2	11.7	9.4	10.8	10.0
Households not current on rent and reporting eviction is somewhat likely within next 2 months
Number (in thousands)	900	905	1,089	955	758	854	813
Percent	7.1	7.1	8.5	7.5	5.9	6.7	6.4
Households not current on rent and reporting eviction is very likely within next 2 months
Number (in thousands)	504	463	595	539	443	521	463
Percent	3.9	3.6	4.7	4.2	3.5	4.1	3.6
— Not available.
^a Renter household estimates from Household Pulse Survey (HPS) data were reweighted to correspond to a control total of approximately 42.7 million renter households based on the 2019 American Housing Survey (AHS).
NOTE: Table reflects data collected in Phases 2, 3, 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3, Weeks 13–41 (August 19, 2021, through January 10, 2022).
SOURCE: U.S. Census Bureau, Household Pulse Survey. Tabulated by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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