1 in 17 People Are a Landlord
20 Aug 2026 · 1 min
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Peter Lohmann asks for hard data on how many people are landlords. The answer: about 1 in 17 Americans report rental income, based on census and tax records. He's surprised by the number.
Peter Lohmann asks for hard data on how many people are landlords. The answer: about 1 in 17 Americans report rental income, based on census and tax records. He's surprised by the number.
Does that mean that there's like 1 in 12 people is a landlord? Do you have any like hard data on that?
It's like, so if you look at census and tax records, right? If you look at tax records, it comes out to like 1 in every 17 people.
Wow.
Have some sort of rental income on their tax returns, right? And now you get 1 tax return per household, right? So, but it's impressive how many there are in the United States. And that, at least to us internally, just helps give us a little perspective of like, we are really almost like a consumer company,
