Lincoln's housing growth has mostly been keeping up with its job growth, according to a released Wednesday.
Apartment-finder website compared the number of jobs and housing units added in 466 cities from 2005-2015 and found that Lincoln added 13,309 jobs over the 10-year period and the city issued building permits for 13,793 new housing units.
That gave Lincoln a ratio of roughly one job added for every one housing unit added.
From 2010-2015, however, the report found that Lincoln added jobs slightly faster than housing units, resulting in a ratio of 1.6 jobs for every new housing unit.
The report said that the balance between jobs and housing helped keep Lincoln's rent growth to a moderate level of 26 percent from 2005-2015.
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Omaha and Grand Island were the other Nebraska cities in the report, and both had numbers similar to Lincoln.
Omaha had 0.9 jobs per housing unit from 2005-2015 and 1.7 from 2010-2015. Its rent growth over the 10-year period was 29 percent.
Grand Island averaged 1.2 jobs per housing unit over both the five- and 10-year periods and had 32 percent rent growth.
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