See what it takes to afford rent in all of Sacramento's neighborhoods

Paying the rent every month is getting harder for tens of thousands of Sacramento residents.

The median rent in the region - the rent in the exact middle of a list ranked from top to bottom - was $928 in 2013, down about 5 percent from 2007, after adjusting for inflation, new census figures show.

But the median household income for the region's renters fell about 16 percent during that period to roughly $35,400.

Financial experts often recommend that tenants spend no more than a third of their income on rent. To achieve that in the region's cheapest rental community - Lemon Hill in South Sacramento - a tenant in a single-earner household would need to work full-time and earn at least $13 an hour.

More than 200,000 of the region's workers earn less than $13 an hour, according to the state Employment Development Department.

This map shows the minimum hourly wage a full-time, year-round worker would need to make in each of Sacramento's largest communities to pay less than a third of their income on rent.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

This story was originally published December 11, 2014 at 6:01 PM with the headline "See what it takes to afford rent in all of Sacramento's neighborhoods."