Fair Market Rent, two bedrooms (HUD, monthly)
Monthly gross rent, in US dollars, that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) sets for a two-bedroom unit in the HUD area that contains the county.
More on how it is measured
- Gross rent is the rent plus all utilities paid by the tenant except telephone, cable or satellite television and internet.
- HUD sets Fair Market Rents at the 40th percentile of gross rents paid by recent movers for standard-quality rental units, from American Community Survey data brought forward to the fiscal year; until 2018 a few metropolitan areas were set at the 50th percentile.
- They set payment standards for Housing Choice Vouchers and rent ceilings in other HUD programs.
A policy benchmark, not a measured rent: it is lower than the median rent by design and differs from the Census Bureau median gross rent. HUD sets one value per HUD area, a metropolitan area (sometimes split into HUD Metro FMR Areas) or a non-metropolitan county, so every county of a metropolitan area shows the same figure. Counties in the six New England states have no value, because HUD defines their areas by town and a county can span several areas. Where HUD splits off part of a county, the county value is the rest of the county: Howard County, Maryland, without Columbia until FY2015, and Crawford County, Missouri, without its part of Sullivan. The year is HUD's federal fiscal year: FY2027 runs from 1 October 2026 to 30 September 2027.
Key facts
- Santa Cruz County had the highest fair Market Rent, two bedrooms (HUD, monthly) of 3076 counties in 2027, at $4,254, and Williamsburg County the lowest, at $885. Source: the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research.
- Published for 3,076 places, with figures from 2010 to 2027.
Rankings
- US counties
- Counties in Texas
- Counties in Georgia
- Counties in Virginia
- Counties in Kentucky
- Counties in Missouri
- Counties in Kansas
- Counties in Illinois
- Counties in North Carolina
- Counties in Iowa
- Counties in Tennessee
- Counties in Nebraska
US counties by fair Market Rent, two bedrooms (HUD, monthly), 2027
Places with data
Provinces and counties
- Los Angeles County
- Cook County
- Harris County
- Maricopa County
- San Diego County
- Orange County
- Miami-Dade County
- Dallas County
- Kings County
- Riverside County
- Douglas County
- Tarrant County
- Montgomery County
- Lexington County
- Gwinnett County
- Oklahoma County
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