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The population-weighted FY2026 2-bedroom Fair Market Rent for the 50 states and the District of Columbia is $1,737.
FY2026 2-bedroom Fair Market Rent by state, population-weighted from the HUD county file.
Source: HUD FY2026 Fair Market Rents and Small Area FMRs, effective 2025-10-01, retrieved 2026-10-09, with ZIP placement from the HUD-USPS ZIP Crosswalk 2021-Q4. https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/fmr.html
| State | 2-bedroom | Counties |
|---|---|---|
| California | $2,674 | 58 |
| Hawaii | $2,545 | 5 |
| Massachusetts | $2,495 | 14 |
| New York | $2,374 | 62 |
| District of Columbia | $2,246 | 1 |
| New Jersey | $2,229 | 21 |
| New Hampshire | $2,038 | 10 |
| Connecticut | $2,027 | 9 |
| Washington | $2,011 | 39 |
| Maryland | $1,957 | 24 |
| Florida | $1,933 | 67 |
| Colorado | $1,866 | 64 |
| Rhode Island | $1,761 | 5 |
| Virginia | $1,729 | 133 |
| Nevada | $1,719 | 17 |
| Oregon | $1,716 | 36 |
| Arizona | $1,706 | 15 |
| Maine | $1,650 | 16 |
| Delaware | $1,648 | 3 |
| Vermont | $1,629 | 14 |
| Alaska | $1,569 | 30 |
| Utah | $1,566 | 29 |
| Illinois | $1,556 | 102 |
| Georgia | $1,550 | 159 |
| Montana | $1,522 | 56 |
| Texas | $1,520 | 254 |
| Minnesota | $1,478 | 87 |
| Pennsylvania | $1,474 | 67 |
| Idaho | $1,404 | 44 |
| North Carolina | $1,389 | 100 |
| South Carolina | $1,344 | 46 |
| Tennessee | $1,335 | 95 |
| Michigan | $1,310 | 83 |
| New Mexico | $1,294 | 33 |
| Wisconsin | $1,250 | 72 |
| Indiana | $1,234 | 92 |
| Ohio | $1,219 | 88 |
| Nebraska | $1,186 | 93 |
| Missouri | $1,138 | 116 |
| Louisiana | $1,127 | 64 |
| Kansas | $1,122 | 105 |
| Oklahoma | $1,122 | 77 |
| Kentucky | $1,105 | 120 |
| Iowa | $1,097 | 99 |
| South Dakota | $1,088 | 66 |
| Alabama | $1,079 | 67 |
| North Dakota | $1,075 | 53 |
| Wyoming | $1,067 | 23 |
| Arkansas | $1,064 | 75 |
| Mississippi | $1,033 | 82 |
| West Virginia | $995 | 55 |
The population-weighted FY2026 2-bedroom Fair Market Rent for the 50 states and the District of Columbia is $1,737.
California is $2,674.
HUD uses the Fair Market Rent to set the Housing Choice Voucher payment standard, the maximum monthly subsidy base for a bedroom count. The FY2026 2-bedroom rent on this page is $1,737. 24 CFR 982.503 sets the basic range from 90 percent to 110 percent of the applicable Fair Market Rent. In a metro on HUD's designated Small Area FMR list, that rent is the ZIP Small Area FMR. Elsewhere it is the metro or county Fair Market Rent (HUD Fair Market Rents, Small Area FMRs).