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These younger millionaires came of age in a housing market dominated by the ultralow mortgage rate homebuying boom and the steep run-up in home prices and borrowing costs that followed.\n\n\n\nAnd for many, it would seem, that made buying less of an obvious next step\u2014even once they could afford it.\n\n\n\nWhy wealthy households are choosing to rent\n\n\n\nSome of the dramatic growth comes down to math, according to Jones.\n\n\n\n\u201cPart of the gap is a base effect, since renters started from far fewer households; it is possible to see more growth,\u201d she explains.\n\n\n\nThe number of U.S. households earning at least $1 million a year while renting the home they live in rose 229% between 2020 and 2024, climbing to about 18,400 households, according to a new RentCafe analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. 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In absolute terms, renter households grew by roughly 12,800, compared with about 125,000 additional millionaire homeowners.\n\n\n\nJones also notes that the $1 million threshold is nominal rather than adjusted for inflation, meaning some of the growth reflects more households crossing a fixed income benchmark over time.\n\n\n\nEven so, the math still doesn\u2019t explain why high earners might find renting attractive in the first place.\n\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\n\n\nOn that front, the occupational makeup of millionaire renters offers some clues. 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Workers in their first seven years of employment got roughly 36% to 42% of their cumulative earnings growth from moves between employers, according to a 2021 study using U.S. Census Bureau employer-employee data.\n\n\n\nRentCafe says this dynamic is particularly visible in Houston, where affluent newcomers\u2014including executives, professional athletes, and entertainers\u2014often rent after relocating before deciding whether to buy.\n\n\n\nHomeowners, meanwhile, are getting hit with more incentives to stay put. Federal Reserve researchers estimate that mortgage rate lock-in explained 44% of the decline in mortgage-borrower mobility from 2021 to 2022.\n\n\n\n\nAbout 21.6% of people living in renter-occupied households changed residences in 2024, compared with 6.2% of those living in owner-occupied households, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.  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