What HOA and condo fees cost, state by state

• New York has the highest typical monthly fee at $832, about 14.3 times Wyoming’s $58, the lowest. Nationally the typical fee among households that pay one is about $282 a month, roughly $3,384 a year.
• It is mostly a condo story. In New York, condo and co-op households pay about $990 a month, versus about $377 for single-family homes that carry a fee. Multi-unit fees, not single-family HOAs, drive the rankings.
• District of Columbia has the highest share of households paying any community fee, about 33.5%. Where fees are most common is a different list from where they are highest.
• After New York, the highest typical fees are in Hawaii ($542), District of Columbia ($503), Massachusetts ($376), California ($361), Connecticut ($360). The lowest are in Wyoming ($58), Oklahoma ($61), Arkansas ($62), Mississippi ($65), West Virginia ($67), Idaho ($68).

All 50 states and DC, highest typical fee first. “Share paying” is the share of households that report a condo, co-op, or HOA fee to the Census, not the share of homes in an HOA. Pick your state to see its associations.

Single-family HOA dues are only partly captured by the Census fee question, so the single-family figure is the softer of the two. Where a state has too little survey data to be reliable, it is left out rather than shown as a shaky number.

The figures come from the American Community Survey 2024 5-year PUMS (2020–2024), a public U.S. Census Bureau survey. Census records, for small local areas, the median monthly condominium, co-op, or HOA fee among households that pay one, and the share of households that pay. For each state we combine those local medians into one typical fee, weighting each area by how many paying households it has, so busy metros count more than tiny ones. Condo and single-family figures are shown apart because they differ a lot. This is our own calculation, derived from Census data. It is not an official Census statistic, and the Census Bureau did not produce or endorse these state numbers.

A few honest limits. This is a typical fee, effectively a household-weighted blend of local medians, not a true statewide median, and it mixes condo, co-op, and HOA fees. It counts only homes that report a fee, so the dollar figure leaves out homes with no fee and shows those separately as the share that pays. Survey estimates carry sampling error, so read close rankings as roughly tied and treat every number as a ballpark. The share paying is the share reporting a fee, not a measure of how many homes are in an HOA, and the survey undercounts single-family HOA assessments.

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