India, Feb. 25 -- If you live in the US and have a $50,000 salary, there are 37 cities where you can afford a large house, a figure that used to be 564 just five years ago.

Among those 37 cities, Clarksdale in Mississippi ranks on top where one can afford a median of 2,642 square feet in the above-mentioned salary, according to a report by news aggregator Digg which cited data from US real estate company HomeAbroad.

This ranking comes with HomeAbroad using cost of living and home sale price data to calculate the size of home a $50,000 salary could realistically afford across over 900 US cities.

After Clarksdale comes Canton, Illinois with a median of 2,481 square feet, and Forrest City, Arkansas with 2,374 square feet.

Over half of th...