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24 CFR Part 888



Fair Market Rents for the Housing Choice Voucher Program and Moderate 
Rehabilitation Single Room Occupancy Program--Fiscal Year 2002; Final 
Rule

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

24 CFR Part 888

[Docket No. FR-4680-N-02]


Fair Market Rents for the Housing Choice Voucher Program and 
Moderate Rehabilitation Single Room Occupancy Program--Fiscal Year 2002

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HUD.

ACTION: Notice of Final Fiscal Year (FY) 2002 Fair Market Rents (FMRs).

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SUMMARY: Section 8(c)(1) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 
requires the Secretary to publish FMRs annually to be effective on 
October 1 of each year. FMRs are used for the Housing Choice Voucher 
program, the Moderate Rehabilitation Single Room Occupancy program, the 
project-based voucher program, and any other programs requiring their 
use. Today's notice provides final FY 2002 FMRs for all areas that 
reflect the estimated 40th and 50th percentile rent levels trended to 
April 1, 2002.

EFFECTIVE DATE: The FMRs published in this notice are effective on 
October 1, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gerald Benoit, Director, Real Estate 
and Housing Performance Division, Office of Public and Assisted Housing 
Delivery, is responsible for fair market rent implementation policies. 
His telephone number is (202) 708-0477. For technical information on 
the methodology used to develop fair market rents or a listing of all 
fair market rents, please call HUD USER at 1-800-245-2691 or access the 
information on the HUD Web site, http:\\www.huduser.org/datasets/fmr.html. Further questions on the methodology may be addressed to 
Marie L. Lihn, Economic and Market Analysis Division, Office of 
Economic Affairs, telephone (202) 708-0590, Extension 5866 (e-mail: 
Marie L. [email protected]). Hearing- or speech-impaired persons may use the 
Telecommunications Devices for the Deaf (TTY) by contacting the Federal 
Information Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339. (Other than the ``800'' 
TTY number, telephone numbers are not toll free.)

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 8 of the United States Housing Act 
of 1937 (the Act) (42 U.S.C. 1437f) authorizes housing assistance to 
aid lower income families in renting decent, safe, and sanitary 
housing. Housing assistance payments are limited by FMRs established by 
HUD for different areas. In the voucher program, the FMR is used to 
determine the ``payment standard'' (the maximum monthly subsidy) for 
assisted families (see Section 982.503). In general, the FMR for an 
area is the amount that would be needed to pay the gross rent (shelter 
rent plus utilities) of privately owned, decent, safe, and sanitary 
rental housing of a modest (non-luxury) nature with suitable amenities.

How HUD Sets FMRs

HUD Standard for Setting the FMR

    FMRs are gross rent estimates that include both shelter rent paid 
by the tenant to the landlord and the cost of tenant-paid utilities, 
except telephone. HUD sets FMRs to assure that a sufficient supply of 
rental housing is available to program participants. To accomplish this 
objective, FMRs must be both high enough to permit a selection of units 
in neighborhoods and low enough to serve as many families as possible. 
FMRs are set at a percentile within the rent distribution of standard 
quality rental housing units in each FMR area (see 24 CFR 888.113, as 
amended by interim rule published October 2, 2000 at 65 FR 58870, 
effective December 1, 2000). FMRs are based on the distribution of 
rents for units that are occupied by recent movers--renter households 
who moved into their units within the past 15 months. Rents for units 
less than two years old and public housing units are not included. 
Rents for subsidized housing units are adjusted by adding back the 
amount of the subsidy.
    HUD sets FMRs either at the 40th percentile rent or at the 50th 
percentile rent. For most FMR areas, the FMR is set at the 40th 
percentile rent--that is, the rent for 40 percent of standard rental 
housing units is at or below this dollar amount. For some FMR areas, 
the FMR is set at the 50th percentile rent--that is, the median rent--
the rent for 50 percent of standard units is at or below this dollar 
amount.

When HUD Sets FMRs at the 50th Percentile Rent

    On October 2, 2000 (65 FR 58870), HUD published an interim rule 
(effective December 1, 2000) that provides authority for HUD to set 
50th percentile FMRS in metropolitan areas where a higher FMR (i.e., 
exceeding the 40th percentile FMR) is needed to promote residential 
choice, help families move closer to areas of job growth, and 
deconcentrate poverty. The rule provides (Sec. 888.113(c)) that HUD 
will set FMRs at the 50th percentile rent for all unit sizes in each 
metropolitan FMR area that meets all of the following criteria:
     The FMR area contains at least 100 census tracts;
     70 percent or fewer of the census tracts with at least 10 
two bedroom rental units are census tracts in which at least 30 percent 
of the two bedroom rental units have gross rents at or below the two 
bedroom FMR set at the 40th percentile rent; and
     25 percent or more of the tenant-based rental program 
participants in the FMR area reside in the 5 percent of the census 
tracts within the FMR area that have the largest number of program 
participants.
    On January 2, 2001 (66 FR 162), HUD first established 50th 
percentile FMRs for 39 fair market rent areas, based on the criteria 
specified in the interim rule.
    Schedule B of this Notice lists the FY 2002 FMRs for all areas of 
the United States including:
     the 39 FMR areas where the FMR is set at the 50th 
percentile rent, and
     FMR areas, where the FMR is set at the 40th percentile 
rent.
    An asterisk in Schedule B identifies each of the 39 FMR areas for 
which HUD has set 50th percentile FMRs. HUD has set 50th percentile 
FMRs for the following metropolitan FMR areas:

Albuquerque, NM
Atlanta, GA
Austin-San Marcos, TX
Baton Rouge, LA
Bergen-Passaic, NJ
Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY
Chicago, IL
Cleveland-Lorain-Elyria, OH
Dallas, TX
Denver, CO
Detroit, MI
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Fort Worth-Arlington, TX
Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland, MI
Houston, TX
Kansas City, MO-KS
Las Vegas, NV-AZ
Miami, FL
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI
Newark, NJ
Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News, VA-NC
Oakland, CA
Oklahoma City, OK
Orange County, CA
Philadelphia, PA-NJ
Phoenix-Mesa, AZ
Richmond-Petersburg, VA
Sacramento, CA
Salt Lake City-Ogden, UT
San Antonio, TX
San Diego, CA
San Jose, CA
St. Louis, MO-IL
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL
Tulsa, OK
Ventura, CA

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Washington, DC-MD-VA
West Palm Beach-Boca Raton, FL
Wichita, KS

Data Sources

    HUD has used the most accurate and current data available to 
develop the FMR estimates. The sources of survey data used for the 
base-year estimates are:
    (1) The 1990 Census, which provides statistically reliable rent 
data for all FMR areas;
    (2) The Bureau of the Census' American Housing Surveys (AHS), which 
are used to develop between-Census revisions for the largest 
metropolitan areas and which have accuracy comparable to the decennial 
Census; and
    (3) Random Digit Dialing (RDD) telephone surveys of individual FMR 
areas, which are based on a sampling procedure that uses computers to 
select statistically random samples of rental housing.
    The base-year FMRs are updated using trending factors based on 
Consumer Price Index (CPI) data for rents and utilities or on HUD 
regional rent change factors developed from regional RDD surveys. Area-
specific annual average CPI data are available for 99 metropolitan FMR 
areas. RDD regional rent change factors are developed annually for the 
metropolitan and nonmetropolitan parts of each of the 10 HUD regions. 
The RDD factors are used to update the base year estimates for all FMR 
areas that do not have their own local CPI survey.

Utility Costs

    HUD's standard methodology for incorporating changes in utility 
costs in determination of the FMRs relies on the most current CPI data 
on annual changes in residential utility costs. Annual rather than 
point-to-point monthly comparisons (e.g., July 1999 to July 2000) are 
used because monthly utility price indices are volatile and often not 
reflective of the annualized cost of utilities. The annual cost indices 
take into account changes in prices and consumption patterns over the 
course of a year.
    In developing the FMRs for FY 2002, HUD has determined that the 
standard methodology does not adequately capture the unusual increases 
in natural gas prices that occurred at the end of calendar year 2000. 
(The standard methodology does capture increases in fuel oil prices.) 
The standard FMR methodology captures a 17 percent increase in natural 
gas prices from 1999 to 2000, but December 1999 to December 2000 prices 
increased by an average of 37 percent. Department of Energy projections 
for 2002 are similar to the December 2000 prices. For purposes of 
estimating FY 2002 FMRs, HUD has therefore modified the natural gas 
inflation component to use December-to-December costs when available, 
and to use second half to second half of the year figures for CPI areas 
where December 2000 data were not available. This is a one-time change 
made to respond to unusual circumstances; HUD expects to return to the 
standard methodology next year.
    For these three reasons, the impact of this change is modest for 
most areas:
     First, the change accounts for increases in the price of 
natural gas per unit of consumption, but not for increases in 
consumption associated with the unusually cold winter of 2000-2001.
     Second, on a national level, natural gas comprises only 27 
percent of utility costs, and utility costs typically average 8-15 
percent of total rent costs in metropolitan areas. This means, for 
instance, that a 50 percent increase in natural gas prices only 
increases FMRs by a little over 1 percent in the typical metropolitan 
area.
     Third, since FMRs reflect monthly housing costs, the 
increase in FMRs due to this methodological change is spread across the 
course of an entire year rather than just the December-February heating 
season.

State Minimum FMRs

    With the exception of areas with 50th percentile FMRs, FMRs are 
established at the higher of the local 40th percentile rent level or 
the Statewide average of nonmetropolitan counties, subject to a ceiling 
rent cap. The State minimum also affects a small number of metropolitan 
areas whose rents would otherwise fall below the State minimum.

Bedroom Size Adjustments

    FMRs have been calculated separately for each bedroom size 
category. In areas where FMRs are based on the State minimums, the 
rents for each bedroom size are the higher of the rent for the area or 
for the Statewide average of nonmetropolitan counties for that bedroom 
size. For all other FMR areas, the bedroom intervals are based on data 
for the specific area.
    Exceptions to bedroom size intervals that are below normal ranges 
have been made for several areas (usually small nonmetropolitan 
counties). For these areas, the intervals used are based on the typical 
minimum ratios found after outliers have been excluded.
    Higher bedroom size intervals are used for three-bedroom and larger 
size units than would result from using the actual market 
relationships. This is done to assist the largest, most difficult to 
house families in finding program-eligible units. The FMRs for unit 
sizes larger than 4 bedroom are calculated by adding 15 percent to the 
4 bedroom FMR for each extra bedroom. For example, the FMR for a 5-
bedroom unit is 1.15 times the 4 bedroom FMR, and the FMR for a 6 
bedroom unit is 1.30 times the 4 bedroom FMR. FMRs for single-room-
occupancy (SRO) units are 0.75 times the 0 bedroom FMR.

Public Comments

    In response to the May 9, 2001 (66 FR 23770) proposed FMRs, HUD 
received 25 public comments covering 23 FMR areas. Rental housing 
survey information of some form was provided for 15 of those FMR areas. 
All survey information submitted was evaluated and, based on that 
review, the FMRs for 10 areas are being revised upward. The information 
submitted for the other FMR areas was not considered sufficient to 
provide a basis for revising the FMRs.
    Areas with approved FMR increases are:

Flagstaff, AZ
Kanabec County, MN
Mille Lacs County, MN
Modesto, CA MSA
Olympia, WA (Manufactured Home Space FMRs only)
Pine County, MN
Salem, OR (Manufactured Home Space FMRs only)
St Mary's County, MD (Manufactured Home Space FMRs only)
Tooele, UT
Vallejo-Fairfield-Napa, CA PMSA (Manufactured Home Space FMRs only)

    Three commenters expressed concern about the impact of higher 
utilities on FMRs: the Michigan State Housing Development Authority 
noted that while FY 2001 FMRs were based on frozen natural gas rates, 
these rates will be deregulated for most of FY 2002; the Cuyahoga 
Metropolitan Housing Authority noted that utility increases have taken 
up most of the increase in the FMR over the past year; and the 
Rochester Housing Authority noted that increases in FMRs have not kept 
pace with natural gas increases. As noted previously, these concerns 
were taken into consideration in developing FY 2002 FMRs.
    Four commenters requested changes to their FMR area geographic 
coverage: the Housing Authority of the city of Santa Barbara (CA) 
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south split in the county; the Amherst Housing Authority (MA) requested 
that the Springfield MSA be subdivided by placing the towns of Amherst, 
Northampton, and Sunderland in a separate, new, FMR area; the Housing 
Authority of the City of Charlotte (NC) asked that Charlotte-
Mecklenburg stand alone when calculating FMRs; and the Housing 
Authority of the City of Dallas (TX) suggested the removal of the rural 
counties of Ellis, Hunt, Kaufman and Rockwall from the Dallas 
metropolitan FMR area. HUD does not support splitting FMR areas. FMR 
areas are intended to correspond to housing market areas, which HUD 
defines based on the Office of Management and Budget's metropolitan 
area definitions. While there often are large differentials between 
rents in the highest and lowest cost sections of an FMR area, current 
FMR exception rules permit geographic area exceptions sufficient to 
account for these differences, especially now that exceptions can, in 
special cases, exceed the previous 120 percent limit.

RDD Surveys

    This notice makes effective two of the proposed three FMR decreases 
that were based on RDD surveys conducted in the first two months of 
2001:

    Dallas, TX (HUD FMR Area)
    Newark, NJ PMSA

    In the preamble for the proposed FMRs, Hartford (CT) was mistakenly 
listed as a decrease.
    Comments on the proposed decrease for Dallas (TX) were provided by 
the Housing Authority of the City of Dallas. A review of these comments 
led to a request for the PHA to replace its outdated utility schedule. 
Use of this schedule eliminated most of the proposed FMR decrease.
    No comment was received for:
    Newark, NJ PMSA
    There was a proposed decrease for the Detroit (MI) PMSA based on a 
winter 2001 RDD. Use of an updated utility schedule for Detroit (MI), 
submitted by the PHA, produced a rent estimate within the confidence 
interval that included the current FMR, thereby eliminating the 
proposed reduction.

Summer RDDs

    Based on RDDs conducted by HUD the summer of 2001, FMRs for the 
following areas are being increased by more than the normal 
adjustments:

New Orleans, LA
Boston, MA-NH MSA
Portland, ME MSA
Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY
Memphis, TN-AR-MS

    Summer 2001 RDDs also were done for the following areas, but they 
resulted in no change in the FMRs:

Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC
Anchorage, AK MSA
Syracuse, NY MSA

    There were no summer 2001 RDDs that showed FMRs needed to be 
reduced.

American Housing Survey

    There were no AHS surveys with results that alter proposed FY 2002 
FMRs.

FMR Area Definition Changes

    There were no changes in OMB metropolitan area definitions 
affecting the FY 2002 FMRs.

Manufactured Home Space Surveys

    FMRs used to establish payment standard amounts for the rental of 
manufactured home spaces in the Housing Choice Voucher program are 40 
percent of the applicable Section 8 existing housing program FMR for a 
two-bedroom unit. HUD will consider public comments requesting 
modifications of these manufactured home space FMRs where commentors 
claim that the 40 percent FMRs are inadequate. In order to be accepted 
as a basis for revising the FMRs, comments must contain statistically 
valid survey data showing the 40th percentile manufactured home space 
rent (including the cost of utilities) for the entire FMR area. 
Manufactured home space FMR revisions are published as final FMRs in 
Schedule D. Once approved, the revised manufactured home space FMRs 
establish new base year estimates that are updated annually using the 
same data used to update the other FMRs.

HUD Rental Housing Survey Guides

    HUD recommends the use of professionally-conducted RDD telephone 
surveys to test the accuracy of FMRs for areas where there is a 
sufficient number of Section 8 units to justify the survey cost of 
$14,000-$20,000. Areas with 500 or more program units usually meet this 
criterion, and areas with fewer units may meet it if local rents are 
thought to be significantly different than the FMR proposed by HUD. In 
addition, HUD has developed a simplified version of the RDD survey 
methodology for smaller, nonmetropolitan HAs. This methodology is 
designed to be simple enough to be done by the HA itself, rather than 
by professional survey organizations, at a cost of about $5,000.
    HAs in nonmetropolitan areas may, in certain circumstances, do 
surveys of groups of counties. All grouped county surveys must be 
approved in advance by HUD. HAs are cautioned that the resulting FMRs 
will not be identical for the counties surveyed; each individual FMR 
area will have a separate FMR based on its relationship to the combined 
rent of the group of FMR areas.
    HAs that plan to use the RDD survey technique may obtain a copy of 
the appropriate survey guide by calling HUD USER on 1-800-245-2691. 
Larger HAs should request ``Random Digit Dialing Surveys; A Guide to 
Assist Larger Housing Agencies in Preparing Fair Market Rent 
Comments.'' Smaller HAs should obtain ``Rental Housing Surveys; A Guide 
to Assist Smaller Housing Agencies in Preparing Fair Market Rent 
Comments.'' These guides are also available on the Internet at http://www.huduser.org/datasets/fmr.html.
    HUD prefers, but does not mandate, the use of RDD telephone 
surveys, or the more traditional method described in the small HA 
survey guide. Other survey methodologies are acceptable if they provide 
statistically reliable, unbiased estimates of the 40th percentile gross 
rent. Survey samples should preferably be randomly drawn from a 
complete list of rental units for the FMR area. If this is not 
feasible, the selected sample must be drawn so as to be statistically 
representative of the entire rental housing stock of the FMR area. In 
particular, surveys must include units of all rent levels and be 
representative by structure type (including single-family, duplex and 
other small rental properties), age of housing unit, and geographic 
location. The decennial Census should be used as a starting point and 
means of verification for determining whether the sample is 
representative of the FMR area's rental housing stock. All survey 
results must be fully documented.
    The cost of an RDD survey may vary, depending on the 
characteristics of the telephone system used in the FMR area. RDDs (and 
simplified telephone surveys) of some non-metropolitan areas have been 
unusually expensive because of telephone system characteristics. An HA 
or contractor that cannot obtain the recommended number of sample 
responses after reasonable efforts should consult with HUD before 
abandoning its survey; in such situations HUD is prepared to relax 
normal sample size requirements.

    Accordingly, the Fair Market Rent Schedules, which will not be 
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    Dated: September 26, 2001.
Mel Martinez,
Secretary.

Fair Market Rents for the Housing Choice Voucher Program Schedules 
B and D--General Explanatory Notes

1. Geographic Coverage

    a. Metropolitan Areas--FMRs are housing market-wide rent estimates 
that are intended to provide housing opportunities throughout the 
geographic area in which rental housing units are in direct 
competition. The FMRs shown in Schedule B incorporate OMB's most 
current definitions of metropolitan areas, with the exceptions 
discussed in paragraph (b). HUD uses the OMB Metropolitan Statistical 
Area (MSA) and Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area (PMSA) definitions 
for FMR areas because they closely correspond to housing market area 
definitions.
    b. Exceptions to OMB Definitions--The exceptions are counties 
deleted from several large metropolitan areas whose revised OMB 
metropolitan area definitions were determined by HUD to be larger than 
the housing market areas. The FMRs for the following counties (shown by 
the metropolitan area) are calculated separately and are shown in 
Schedule B within their respective States under the ``Metropolitan FMR 
Areas'' listing:
Metropolitan Area and Counties Deleted
Chicago, IL
    DeKalb, Grundy and Kendall Counties
Cincinnati-Hamilton, OH-KY-IN
    Brown County, Ohio; Gallatin, Grant and Pendleton Counties in 
Kentucky; and Ohio County, Indiana
Dallas, TX
    Henderson County
Flagstaff, AZ-UT
    Kane County, UT
New Orleans, LA
    St. James Parish
Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV
    Berkeley and Jefferson Counties in West Virginia; and Clarke, 
Culpeper, King George and Warren Counties in Virginia
    c. Nonmetropolitan Area FMRs--FMRs also are established for 
nonmetropolitan counties and for county equivalents in the United 
States, for nonmetropolitan parts of counties in the New England states 
and for FMR areas in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the Pacific 
Islands.
    d. Virginia Independent Cities--FMRs for the areas in Virginia 
shown in the table below were established by combining the Census data 
for the nonmetropolitan counties with the data for the independent 
cities that are located within the county borders. Because of space 
limitations, the FMR listing in Schedule B includes only the name of 
the nonmetropolitan County. The full definitions of these areas, 
including the independent cities, are as follows:

Virginia Nonmetropolitan County FMR Area and Independent Cities Included
                               With County
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                 County                               Cities
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Allegheny..............................  Clifton Forge and Covington
Augusta................................  Staunton and Waynesboro
Carroll................................  Galax
Frederick..............................  Winchester
Greensville............................  Emporia
Henry..................................  Martinsville
Montgomery.............................  Radford
Rockbridge.............................  Buena Vista and Lexington
Rockingham.............................  Harrisonburg
Southhampton...........................  Franklin
Wise...................................  Norton
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2. Bedroom Size Adjustments

    Schedule B shows the FMRs for 0-bedroom through 4-bedroom units. 
The FMRs for unit sizes larger than 4 bedrooms are calculated by adding 
15 percent to the 4-bedroom FMR for each extra bedroom. For example, 
the FMR for a 5-bedroom unit is 1.15 times the 4-bedroom FMR, and the 
FMR for a 6-bedroom unit is 1.30 times the 4 bedroom FMR. FMRs for 
single-room-occupancy (SRO) units are 0.75 times the 0 bedroom FMR.

3. FMRs for Manufactured Home Spaces

    FMRs for manufactured home spaces in the Housing Choice Voucher 
program are 40 percent of the two-bedroom Housing Choice Voucher 
program FMRs, with the exception of the areas listed in Schedule D 
whose manufactured home space FMRs have been modified on the basis of 
public comments. Once approved, the revised manufactured home space 
FMRs establish new base-year estimates that are updated annually using 
the same data used to estimate the Housing Choice Voucher program FMRs. 
The FMR area definitions used for the rental of manufactured home 
spaces are the same as the area definitions used for the other FMRs.

4. Arrangement of FMR Areas and Identification of Constituent Parts

    a. The FMR areas in Schedule B are listed alphabetically by 
metropolitan FMR area and by nonmetropolitan county within each State. 
The exception FMRs for manufactured home spaces in Schedule D are 
listed alphabetically by State.
    b. The constituent counties (and New England towns and cities) 
included in each metropolitan FMR area are listed immediately following 
the listings of the FMR dollar amounts. All constituent parts of a 
metropolitan FMR area that are in more than one State can be identified 
by consulting the listings for each applicable State.
    c. Two nonmetropolitan counties are listed alphabetically on each 
line of the nonmetropolitan county listings.
    d. The New England towns and cities included in a nonmetropolitan 
part of a county are listed immediately following the county name.

BILLING CODE 4210-62-P

Scheduled--FY 2002 Fair Market Rents for Manufactured Home Spaces in the
                Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program
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                         Area name                            Space rent
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California:
    Los Angeles, CA........................................         $412
    Orange County, CA PMSA.................................          502
    Riverside-San Bernardino, CA...........................          327
    San Diego, CA MSA......................................          498
    Vallejo-Fairfield-Napa, CA PMSA........................          420
Colorado:
    Boulder-Longmont, CO PMSA..............................          388
    Denver, CO PMSA........................................          369
Maryland:
    Hagerstown, MD MSA.....................................          231
    St. Marys County, MD...................................          363

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Nevada:
    Reno, NV...............................................          405
New York:
    Newburgh, NY MSA.......................................          309
    Rochester, NY..........................................          252
    Utica-Rome, NY.........................................          226
Oregon:
    Deschutes County, OR...................................          267
    Portland-Vancouver, OR.................................          303
    Salem, OR PMSA.........................................          374
Washington:
    Olympia, WA............................................          429
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