Depending on where you live, owning a home may seem like a far off dream or it could be fairly realistic. As Visual Capitalist's Avery Koop details below, in New York City, for example, a person needs to be making at least six figures to buy a home, but in Cleveland you could do it with just over $45,000 a year.

This visual, using data from Home Sweet Home, maps out the annual salary you’d need for home ownership in 50 different U.S. cities.