Document Type

Report

Publication Date

8-31-2026

Publication Title

Economic Development & Workforce Fact Sheet No. 91

Publisher

The Lincy Institute and Brookings Mountain West

First page number:

1

Last page number:

3

Abstract

This fact sheet presents 2023 data on the share of middle-class households that can afford basic necessities in the five Mountain West states of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah. The Brookings Institution report, “In every corner of the country, the middle class struggles with affordability,” provides metropolitan-level estimates across all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. This fact sheet focuses on middle class affordability data for the largest metro area in each Mountain West state and, where available, explores middle class affordability by race and ethnicity.

Keywords

Families; Household; Necessities; Arizona; Colorado; Nevada; New Mexico; Utah

Disciplines

Agricultural and Resource Economics | Economic Policy | Economics | Income Distribution | Public Affairs | Social Welfare

File Format

pdf

File Size

119 KB

Language

English

Rights

IN COPYRIGHT. For more information about this rights statement, please visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Publisher Citation

Parikh, K., Sharma, K., Pande, M., Thymianos, K., Saladino, C.J., Brown, W.E. (2026). Middle Class Affordability in the Mountain West, 2023. The Data Hub at The Lincy Institute and Brookings Mountain West. Economic Development & Workforce Fact Sheet No. 91, 1-3.

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