The National Multifamily Housing Council's Rent Payment Tracker found 78.2% of apartment households made a full or partial rent payment by Nov. 6 in its survey of 11.8 million units of professionally managed apartment units across the country.

This is a 2.2 percentage point decrease from the share who paid rent through Nov. 6, 2020 and compares to 81.5% that had been paid by Nov. 6, 2019. This data encompasses a wide variety of market-rate rental properties across the US, which can vary by size, type and average rental price.

However, noteworthy technical issues may make historical comparisons imprecise. For example, factors such as varying days of the week on which data are collected; individual companies' differing payment collection policies; shelter-in-place orders' effects on residents' ability to deliver payments in person or by mail; the closure of leasing offices, which may delay operators' payment processing; and other factors can affect how and when rent data is processed and recorded.