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On Average, More Than A Week’s Work Needed To Pay Rent In Jacksonville

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Jacksonville's Mayfair Village apartment complex is pictured.

It takes the average Jacksonville working renter 56 hours to earn enough money to pay the landlord.

That’s according to SmartAsset, which looked at the average annual take-home pay, average number of hours worked per year and median monthy rent in the nation’s 25 largest cities.

The study finds Jacksonville has a median monthly rent of $1,074 and an estimated average hourly wage of $19.18.

Of the cities the finance technology company looked at, San Jose, California, required the most hours of work to pay the rent, at 76, while Detroit required the fewest at 41.3.

A report last year found rents in Jacksonville had jumped 6.3% over a one-year period. RENTCafé compared March 2018 to March 2019. 

That was almost double the national average, which saw a year-over-year increase of 3.2%.

chart of all 25 cities
Credit SmartAsset

Bill Bortzfield can be reached at bbortzfield@wjct.org, 904-358-6349 or on Twitter at @BortzInJax.

Bill joined WJCT News in September of 2017 from The Florida Times-Union, where he served in a variety of multimedia journalism positions.