47,483 Miami-Dade renter homes have more than one occupant per room
Census estimates 26,515 renter homes with 1.01–1.50 occupants per room, 16,585 with 1.51–2.00 and 4,383 with 2.01 or more. Room density is distinct from rent burden.
Share of 465,971 renter-occupied housing units with more than one occupant per room
- Published
- Oct 27, 2026
- Geography
- Miami-Dade County
| Renters above 1 per room | 10.2 |
| Owners above 1 per room | 4.5 |
Meeting & town-hall brief
Key points
- 0147,483 renter-occupied units have more than one occupant per room.
- 02The comparable owner-occupied share is 4.5%.
- 03The table measures occupants per room, not per bedroom.
What to say
- Consider space as well as price when evaluating housing needs.
- Do not infer a household’s reasons for sharing housing from density alone.
Every figure above is drawn from the source listed at the bottom of this page. Check them against the source before quoting at a public meeting.
Analysis
What the data shows
Table B25014 estimates 47,483 renter-occupied units above one occupant per room: 26,515 plus 16,585 plus 4,383. Dividing by 465,971 renter-occupied units yields 10.2%. For owner-occupied housing, the same categories total 23,038 of 509,440 units, or 4.5%. These are housing units, not counts of people. Occupants per room is not occupants per bedroom, and these categories do not identify lease violations or building-code violations. Sharing space may reflect housing costs, household preferences or other circumstances; the table cannot identify the cause.
Methods and limits
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2024 ACS five-year estimates (2020–2024), Miami-Dade County, Florida; table B25014. Retrieved and independently rechecked October 27, 2026. Percentages are calculated from unrounded counts and rounded to one decimal. These are survey estimates, not exact administrative counts; source tables provide 90% margins of error. No statistical-significance test is claimed. Countywide results are not neighborhood estimates and do not establish that development or rent increases caused displacement.
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