Ranking
Fair Market Rents, fiscal year 2027
Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA MSA ranks first with $4,254 in fiscal year 2027, according to HUD.
HUD's two-bedroom Fair Market Rent for fiscal year 2027 is $4,254 a month in Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA MSA, the highest of its 2,606 areas; the median area's is $1,017, and the lowest $517.
Two-bedroom FMR, a month · Fiscal year 2027
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| Rank | Name | dollars | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA MSA | $4,254 | $3,390 |
| 2 | San Francisco, CA HUD Metro FMR Area | $3,697 | $3,003 |
| 3 | Nantucket County, MA | $3,583 | $2,739 |
| 4 | Napa, CA MSA | $3,375 | $2,580 |
| 5 | San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA HUD Metro FMR Area | $3,272 | $2,778 |
| 6 | Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA MSA | $3,106 | $2,711 |
| 7 | Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine, CA HUD Metro FMR Area | $3,057 | $2,610 |
| 8 | Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH HUD Metro FMR Area | $3,008 | $2,518 |
| 9 | San Benito County, CA HUD Metro FMR Area | $3,004 | $2,296 |
| 10 | New York, NY HUD Metro FMR Area | $2,971 | $2,729 |
| 11 | Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, CA HUD Metro FMR Area | $2,964 | $2,402 |
| 12 | San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA MSA | $2,823 | $2,335 |
| 13 | Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA MSA | $2,819 | $2,155 |
| 14 | Oakland-Fremont, CA HUD Metro FMR Area | $2,805 | $2,290 |
| 15 | Jersey City, NJ HUD Metro FMR Area | $2,792 | $2,514 |
| 16 | Summit County, CO | $2,766 | $2,114 |
| 17 | San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA MSA | $2,720 | $2,079 |
| 18 | Nassau-Suffolk, NY HUD Metro FMR Area | $2,689 | $2,285 |
| 19 | Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina, HI HUD Metro FMR Area | $2,656 | $2,030 |
| 20 | Middlesex-Somerset-Hunterdon, NJ HUD Metro FMR Area | $2,623 | $2,103 |
| 21 | Eagle County, CO | $2,607 | $1,993 |
| 22 | Pitkin County, CO | $2,597 | $2,169 |
| 23 | Easton-Raynham, MA HUD Metro FMR Area | $2,589 | $2,209 |
| 24 | Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, FL HUD Metro FMR Area | $2,564 | $2,121 |
| 25 | Seattle-Bellevue, WA HUD Metro FMR Area | $2,549 | $2,180 |
| 26 | Urban Honolulu, HI MSA | $2,542 | $1,951 |
| 27 | Newport-Middleton-Portsmouth, RI HUD Metro FMR Area | $2,507 | $1,916 |
| 28 | Eastern Worcester County, MA HUD Metro FMR Area | $2,499 | $1,910 |
| 29 | Barnstable Town, MA MSA | $2,488 | $1,902 |
| 30 | Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD HUD Metro FMR Area | $2,438 | $2,204 |
| 31 | Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA MSA | $2,424 | $2,035 |
| 32 | Salinas, CA MSA | $2,416 | $2,009 |
| 33 | Brockton, MA HUD Metro FMR Area | $2,409 | $1,842 |
| 34 | Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT MSA | $2,399 | $2,071 |
| 35 | Aleutians West Census Area, AK | $2,394 | $1,830 |
| 36 | Routt County, CO | $2,384 | $2,119 |
| 37 | Lowell, MA HUD Metro FMR Area | $2,383 | $1,831 |
| 38 | York-Kittery-South Berwick, ME HUD Metro FMR Area | $2,376 | $1,816 |
| 39 | Lawrence, MA-NH HUD Metro FMR Area | $2,367 | $1,809 |
| 40 | Portland, ME HUD Metro FMR Area | $2,353 | $1,864 |
| 41 | West Palm Beach-Boca Raton, FL HUD Metro FMR Area | $2,349 | $2,008 |
| 42 | Western Rockingham County, NH HUD Metro FMR Area | $2,347 | $1,794 |
| 43 | Vallejo, CA MSA | $2,342 | $1,876 |
| 44 | Kendall County, IL HUD Metro FMR Area | $2,341 | $1,790 |
| 45 | Kalawao County, HI HUD Metro FMR Area | $2,326 | $1,778 |
| 46 | Fort Lauderdale, FL HUD Metro FMR Area | $2,321 | $1,902 |
| 47 | Monmouth-Ocean, NJ HUD Metro FMR Area | $2,283 | $1,847 |
| 48 | Bergen-Passaic, NJ HUD Metro FMR Area | $2,282 | $1,987 |
| 49 | Monroe County, FL | $2,254 | $1,990 |
| 50 | Trenton-Princeton, NJ MSA | $2,242 | $1,764 |
| 51 | Nashua, NH HUD Metro FMR Area | $2,239 | $1,804 |
| 51 | Kodiak Island Borough, AK | $2,239 | $1,712 |
| 53 | Newark, NJ HUD Metro FMR Area | $2,233 | $1,850 |
| 54 | Sacramento--Roseville--Arden-Arcade, CA HUD Metro FMR Area | $2,201 | $1,793 |
| 55 | North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL MSA | $2,188 | $1,876 |
| 56 | Taunton-Mansfield-Norton, MA HUD Metro FMR Area | $2,179 | $1,666 |
| 57 | Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO MSA | $2,169 | $1,831 |
| 58 | Manchester, NH HUD Metro FMR Area | $2,168 | $1,657 |
| 59 | Burlington-South Burlington, VT MSA | $2,165 | $1,719 |
| 60 | Summit County, UT | $2,153 | $1,899 |
| 61 | Yolo, CA HUD Metro FMR Area | $2,135 | $1,670 |
| 62 | Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY MSA | $2,131 | $1,659 |
| 63 | Bozeman, MT MSA | $2,109 | $1,612 |
| 64 | Kauai County, HI | $2,105 | $1,609 |
| 65 | Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA MSA | $2,103 | $1,705 |
| 66 | Portsmouth-Rochester, NH HUD Metro FMR Area | $2,093 | $1,600 |
| 67 | New Haven, CT MSA | $2,091 | $1,743 |
| 68 | Hawaii County, HI | $2,081 | $1,615 |
| 69 | Port St. Lucie, FL MSA | $2,069 | $1,718 |
| 70 | Tacoma, WA HUD Metro FMR Area | $2,064 | $1,682 |
| 71 | Worcester, MA HUD Metro FMR Area | $2,043 | $1,587 |
| 72 | Naples-Marco Island, FL MSA | $2,036 | $1,870 |
| 73 | Amherst Town-Northampton, MA MSA | $2,034 | $1,593 |
| 74 | Boulder, CO MSA | $2,033 | $1,735 |
| 75 | St. John Island, VI | $2,025 | $1,617 |
| 76 | San Juan County, WA | $2,022 | $1,546 |
| 77 | Warren County, NJ HUD Metro FMR Area | $2,021 | $1,624 |
| 78 | Stockton-Lodi, CA MSA | $2,015 | $1,628 |
| 79 | Chicago-Joliet-Naperville, IL HUD Metro FMR Area | $2,011 | $1,780 |
| 80 | Beaufort County, SC HUD Metro FMR Area | $2,010 | $1,844 |
| 80 | Dukes County, MA | $2,010 | $1,537 |
| 82 | Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD MSA | $2,006 | $1,625 |
| 83 | Northwest Arctic Borough, AK | $2,005 | $1,651 |
| 84 | Bethel Census Area, AK | $1,971 | $1,811 |
| 85 | Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA MSA | $1,967 | $1,535 |
| 86 | Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL MSA | $1,959 | $1,726 |
| 87 | Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA MSA | $1,946 | $1,656 |
| 88 | Cumberland County, ME (part) HUD Metro FMR Area | $1,941 | $1,561 |
| 89 | Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT MSA | $1,933 | $1,543 |
| 90 | Mono County, CA | $1,927 | $1,550 |
| 91 | Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL MSA | $1,917 | $1,648 |
| 92 | Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL HUD Metro FMR Area | $1,908 | $1,706 |
| 93 | Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT MSA | $1,902 | $1,518 |
| 94 | Fitchburg-Leominster, MA HUD Metro FMR Area | $1,900 | $1,571 |
| 95 | Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ HUD Metro FMR Area | $1,899 | $1,567 |
| 96 | Bend-Redmond, OR HUD Metro FMR Area | $1,893 | $1,447 |
| 97 | Calvert County, MD HUD Metro FMR Area | $1,890 | $1,666 |
| 98 | Hood River County, OR | $1,888 | $1,443 |
| 99 | Nevada County, CA | $1,885 | $1,441 |
| 100 | Charleston-North Charleston, SC MSA | $1,884 | $1,731 |
What this data cannot show
- A Fair Market Rent is HUD's estimate of the rent a voucher pays toward in an area, set each fiscal year for its programs. It is not a market median, and it includes utilities.
- The table lists the 100 highest of 2,606 areas. An area is HUD's: a metropolitan area, part of one, or a non-metropolitan county, so one area can hold many places and a median across areas counts a rural county and a city once each.
- The median, lowest and highest are of HUD's areas for the fiscal year, not of what renters pay.
Related
Sources
- HUD Fair Market Rents — by FMR area, county and New England town — U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research · U.S. Government work · retrieved September 27, 2026
Compiled automatically from HUD Fair Market Rents — by FMR area, county and New England town by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built
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