Counties in New Mexico by fair Market Rent, four bedrooms (HUD, monthly)

Los Alamos County had the highest fair Market Rent, four bedrooms (HUD, monthly) of 33 counties in 2020, at $1,931. Rio Arriba County had the lowest, at $967. The median was $1,254. Source: the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research.

Highest1,931Los Alamos County

Lowest967Rio Arriba County

Median1,25433 counties

All counties, 2020

USD. Source: HUD, HUD Fair Market Rents by county: four bedrooms, monthly gross rent in dollars. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Counties	2020 USD	Change on 2019
1	Los Alamos County	1,931	-2.1%
2	Eddy County	1,616	+1.7%
3	Taos County	1,536	+19.4%
4	Santa Fe County	1,534	-1.1%
5	Bernalillo County	1,506	-0.1%
5	Sandoval County	1,506	-0.1%
5	Torrance County	1,506	-0.1%
5	Valencia County	1,506	-0.1%
9	Lincoln County	1,437	-6.6%
10	Lea County	1,434	-0.3%
11	Curry County	1,391	-5.4%
12	De Baca County	1,300	-1.4%
12	Mora County	1,300	-1.4%
14	Doña Ana County	1,278	+5.5%
15	Roosevelt County	1,268	-3.2%
16	Luna County	1,254	+2%
16	Otero County	1,254	-0.4%
16	Socorro County	1,254	+9.5%
19	Chaves County	1,229	-6.2%
20	San Juan County	1,205	+13.6%
21	Grant County	1,198	+0.2%
22	Catron County	1,181	+3%
22	Guadalupe County	1,181	+3%
22	Harding County	1,181	+3%
22	Quay County	1,181	+3%
26	Hidalgo County	1,167	+2.3%
27	Colfax County	1,147	-9.3%
28	Sierra County	1,136	-10%
29	Union County	1,133	+3.6%
30	San Miguel County	1,088	-9.9%
31	Cibola County	1,004	-1.5%
32	McKinley County	967	-5.3%
32	Rio Arriba County	967	-6.8%

Other periods

About this ranking

Monthly gross rent, in US dollars, that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) sets for a four-bedroom unit in the HUD area that contains the county. 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.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the counties are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, HUD USER. HUD Fair Market Rents by county: four bedrooms, monthly gross rent in dollars. https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/fmr/fmr2020/FY20_4050_FMRs_rev.xlsx. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research. (2020). HUD Fair Market Rents by county: four bedrooms, monthly gross rent in dollars (Counties in New Mexico by fair Market Rent, four bedrooms (HUD, monthly), 2020) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/fmr/fmr2020/FY20_4050_FMRs_rev.xlsx

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HUD Fair Market Rents by county: four bedrooms, monthly gross rent in dollars, Counties in New Mexico by fair Market Rent, four bedrooms (HUD, monthly), 2020. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, 2 Mar. 2020, https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/fmr/fmr2020/FY20_4050_FMRs_rev.xlsx. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/fair-market-rent-four-bedroom/new-mexico-counties?period=2020. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research. 2020. HUD Fair Market Rents by county: four bedrooms, monthly gross rent in dollars. Counties in New Mexico by fair Market Rent, four bedrooms (HUD, monthly), 2020. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/fmr/fmr2020/FY20_4050_FMRs_rev.xlsx. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/fair-market-rent-four-bedroom/new-mexico-counties?period=2020.

Harvard

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research (2020) HUD Fair Market Rents by county: four bedrooms, monthly gross rent in dollars, Counties in New Mexico by fair Market Rent, four bedrooms (HUD, monthly), 2020 [Dataset]. Available at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/fmr/fmr2020/FY20_4050_FMRs_rev.xlsx, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/fair-market-rent-four-bedroom/new-mexico-counties?period=2020 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

BibTeX

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  title = {{HUD Fair Market Rents by county: four bedrooms, monthly gross rent in dollars: Counties in New Mexico by fair Market Rent, four bedrooms (HUD, monthly), 2020}},
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  urldate = {2026-10-12},
  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/fair-market-rent-four-bedroom/new-mexico-counties?period=2020. Publisher attribution: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, HUD USER. HUD Fair Market Rents by county: four bedrooms, monthly gross rent in dollars. https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/fmr/fmr2020/FY20\_4050\_FMRs\_rev.xlsx. Retrieved 2026-10-12.},
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Which county has the highest fair Market Rent, four bedrooms (HUD, monthly)?

Los Alamos County, with $1,931 in 2020, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research.

Which county has the lowest fair Market Rent, four bedrooms (HUD, monthly)?

Rio Arriba County, with $967 in 2020.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, HUD Fair Market Rents by county: four bedrooms, monthly gross rent in dollars. Retrieved 2026-10-12.