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Fair Market Rents by State

FY 2026 HUD Fair Market Rents for all 50 states and DC. Each state page shows county-by-county FMR data, metro area rents, and bedroom-size breakdowns from studio through 4-bedroom units.

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States & districts
FY2026
HUD FMR data year
Studio–4BR
Bedroom sizes

According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Fair Market Rents are published every fiscal year to set housing assistance payment standards for Section 8 and other federal programs. The FY 2026 schedule covers all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and more than 3,000 counties, each state page below breaks the figures down by county, metro area, and bedroom size. See our methodology for how the data is sourced and verified.

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Navigating PlainRent by State

The state index is the best place to start if your question is geographic, which state has the lowest rent, or what a typical county or metro in a given state looks like. Each state page rolls up every county and metro area HUD publishes Fair Market Rent figures for within that state, along with a state-level average and a ranking against the other 49 states plus DC.

One Federal Source, Not Fifty State Ones

Unlike datasets that are collected independently by each state, every figure on PlainRent traces back to a single source: HUD's annual Fair Market Rent schedules, published for every U.S. county and metropolitan area under one uniform federal methodology (the 40th-percentile gross-rent standard described on our methodology page). There is no state-by-state reporting variation to normalize, every county and metro in a state was measured the same way, on the same release schedule, by the same federal process.

Interpreting State Averages

A state-level average can mask wide variation within that state, a single high-cost metro area can pull the average well above what most counties in the state actually charge. When a state's average and its median county differ meaningfully, that's a signal of concentrated high-cost metros rather than uniformly expensive rent statewide. For the real picture, click through to the individual county or metro pages, which show the exact HUD figure with no averaging.