Seattle, WA, August 20, 2026—Amid rising inflation and childcare costs, families today face another affordability hurdle: rent burden. A new Zillow and StreetEasy analysis of the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey data shows that approximately one in three family households with children under the age of 18 today are renting their home, and more than half of those families (54.1%) are rent burdened.