Cheaper in Bitcoin

Renting a homedown 99%

Illustration of a door key with a house-shaped keychain tag.

Renting a home, priced in Bitcoin

down 99% in Bitcoin since 2015

Dollars

286449

up 57%
Bitcoin

86M sats704k sats

down 99%

The same amount of Bitcoin goes about 125 times as far today.

Priced in dollars

Renting a home in US dollars, 2015 to todayThe US dollar price changed by 56.9 percent since 2015, from 286.09 to 448.997. Lines: Renting a home in US dollars.0200400600Index201620182020202220242026

Priced in Bitcoin

Renting a home in Bitcoin, 2015 to todayMeasured in Bitcoin, using the four year average Bitcoin price, the price changed by -99.2 percent since 2015. Lines: Renting a home in Bitcoin, 4 year moving average.00.250.50.751BTC (4 year average)201620182020202220242026

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Rent is the largest monthly bill for most households, and it rarely goes down. The dollar chart shows the official rent index from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It is an index rather than a dollar amount, which means it tracks how rents across the country change, set to 100 in the early 1980s. The orange chart divides that same index by the four year average Bitcoin price.

An index smooths over big differences between cities, so your own rent will not match it exactly. What matters here is the direction of the two lines over the same years. This page is a record, not a forecast and not advice about where to live or what to buy.

Sources: CPI rent of primary residence index, Bureau of Labor Statistics via FRED (CUUR0000SEHA), Kraken and Coinbase market data. Updated nightly. How this is measured

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