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The largest 2-bedroom voucher premium in California is +$1,838 in Santa Cruz County.
HUD FY2026 2-bedroom Fair Market Rent and Census median gross rent for each county.
| 1 | Santa Cruz County | $4,214 | $2,376 | $88 | B25031 | +$1,838 | $3,440 | $4,350 |
| 7 | San Benito County | $2,902 | $1,850 | $95 | B25031 | +$1,052 | $2,830 | $2,830 |
| 12 | Napa County | $3,315 | $2,331 | $87 | B25031 | +$984 | ||
| 14 | Santa Barbara County | $3,124 | $2,150 | $63 | B25031 | +$974 | $3,520 | $3,520 |
| 40 | Marin County | $3,604 | $2,794 | $86 | B25031 | +$810 | ||
| 50 | Los Angeles County | $2,903 | $2,127 | $9 | B25031 | +$776 | $2,070 | $4,350 |
| 51 | Orange County | $3,236 | $2,460 | $15 | B25031 | +$776 | $2,760 | $3,280 |
| 74 | San Diego County | $3,001 | $2,290 | $15 | B25031 | +$711 | $1,460 | $4,500 |
| 112 | Sonoma County | $2,827 | $2,207 | $34 | B25031 | +$620 | ||
| 113 | San Luis Obispo County | $2,671 | $2,052 | $45 | B25031 | +$619 | ||
| 128 | Monterey County | $2,684 | $2,088 | $37 | B25031 | +$596 | ||
| 162 | Contra Costa County | $2,912 | $2,354 | $30 | B25031 | +$558 | ||
| 173 | El Dorado County | $2,255 | $1,711 | $74 | B25031 | +$544 | $1,450 | $3,210 |
| 187 | Santa Clara County | $3,483 | $2,950 | $32 | B25031 | +$533 | $2,540 | $4,740 |
| 244 | San Bernardino County | $2,201 | $1,717 | $25 | B25031 | +$484 | $2,070 | $3,300 |
| 250 | San Francisco County | $3,604 | $3,124 | $65 | B25031 | +$480 | ||
| 258 | Sacramento County | $2,255 | $1,783 | $17 | B25031 | +$472 | $1,350 | $3,380 |
| 309 | Ventura County | $2,693 | $2,249 | $38 | B25031 | +$444 | $2,190 | $3,690 |
| 421 | Riverside County | $2,201 | $1,810 | $21 | B25031 | +$391 | $1,830 | $2,780 |
| 426 | San Mateo County | $3,604 | $3,215 | $45 | B25031 | +$389 | $3,300 | $4,030 |
| 474 | Inyo County | $1,514 | $1,143 | $123 | B25031 | +$371 | ||
| 499 | Alameda County | $2,912 | $2,552 | $28 | B25031 | +$360 | $3,300 | $3,300 |
| 579 | Mendocino County | $1,713 | $1,381 | $43 | B25031 | +$332 | ||
| 598 | Fresno County | $1,664 | $1,337 | $22 | B25031 | +$327 | ||
| 604 | Imperial County | $1,362 | $1,037 | $40 | B25031 | +$325 | ||
| 628 | Shasta County | $1,590 | $1,270 | $47 | B25031 | +$320 | ||
| 669 | Tulare County | $1,474 | $1,166 | $26 | B25031 | +$308 | ||
| 672 | Lassen County | $1,279 | $972 | $89 | B25031 | +$307 | ||
| 754 | Yuba County | $1,550 | $1,261 | $74 | B25031 | +$289 | ||
| 767 | Kern County | $1,483 | $1,197 | $18 | B25031 | +$286 | $1,970 | $2,430 |
| 770 | Merced County | $1,503 | $1,217 | $38 | B25031 | +$286 | ||
| 797 | Kings County | $1,469 | $1,190 | $64 | B25031 | +$279 | ||
| 812 | Trinity County | $1,202 | $925 | $793 | B25031 | +$277 | ||
| 907 | Sutter County | $1,550 | $1,292 | $57 | B25031 | +$258 | $2,360 | $2,360 |
| 943 | Modoc County | $1,108 | $856 | $80 | B25031 | +$252 | ||
| 1007 | Del Norte County | $1,370 | $1,127 | $56 | B25031 | +$243 | ||
| 1016 | Yolo County | $2,104 | $1,862 | $55 | B25031 | +$242 | ||
| 1034 | Glenn County | $1,362 | $1,124 | $88 | B25031 | +$238 | ||
| 1077 | Siskiyou County | $1,249 | $1,015 | $69 | B25031 | +$234 | ||
| 1094 | Plumas County | $1,411 | $1,179 | $202 | B25031 | +$232 | ||
| 1108 | Tehama County | $1,362 | $1,131 | $59 | B25031 | +$231 | ||
| 1116 | Placer County | $2,255 | $2,025 | $54 | B25031 | +$230 | $1,540 | $3,380 |
| 1124 | Amador County | $1,698 | $1,470 | $115 | B25031 | +$228 | $1,640 | $1,770 |
| 1191 | Tuolumne County | $1,589 | $1,368 | $198 | B25031 | +$221 | ||
| 1224 | Humboldt County | $1,550 | $1,334 | $52 | B25031 | +$216 | ||
| 1243 | Mariposa County | $1,454 | $1,240 | $151 | B25031 | +$214 | ||
| 1291 | Butte County | $1,625 | $1,417 | $32 | B25031 | +$208 | ||
| 1333 | Stanislaus County | $1,758 | $1,554 | $38 | B25031 | +$204 | ||
| 1387 | Lake County | $1,549 | $1,351 | $95 | B25031 | +$198 | ||
| 1565 | Colusa County | $1,306 | $1,128 | $77 | B25031 | +$178 | ||
| 1577 | Madera County | $1,376 | $1,199 | $53 | B25031 | +$177 | ||
| 1594 | Calaveras County | $1,542 | $1,367 | $160 | B25031 | +$175 | ||
| 1717 | Nevada County | $1,813 | $1,648 | $95 | B25031 | +$165 | $2,420 | $2,420 |
| 2123 | San Joaquin County | $1,742 | $1,609 | $36 | B25031 | +$133 | ||
| 2629 | Solano County | $2,178 | $2,093 | $43 | B25031 | +$85 | $1,580 | $1,580 |
| 3103 | Mono County | $1,675 | $1,795 | $534 | B25031 | -$120 | ||
| 3137 | Alpine County | $1,529 | $3,501 | B25031 | -$1,972 |
The voucher premium is the FY2026 2-bedroom Fair Market Rent minus the Census median gross rent for the same county. The Census rent is ACS 2024 5-year table B25031, 2-bedroom median (column B25031004), when that estimate is published and positive. Otherwise it is ACS table B25064, median gross rent. The margin of error on the premium is the ACS margin of error on that rent, because the Fair Market Rent is a HUD schedule. Other bedroom rows use B25031 when that bedroom median is published. When a county file has town Fair Market Rents and no single county schedule, the county rent is the population-weighted mean of the town rents, rounded half up. The Small Area FMR range is the low and high ZIP Small Area FMR inside the county. Rank is the premium, then the county name. A county is left out when both the 2-bedroom B25031 median and the B25064 median are missing or not positive.
Source: HUD FY2026 Fair Market Rents and Small Area FMRs, effective 2025-10-01, retrieved 2026-10-09, https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/fmr.html, and U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 2024 5-year tables B25031 and B25064, as of 2024-07-01 (data years 2020-2024), retrieved 2026-10-09, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25031.
Santa Cruz County at +$1,838. The FY2026 2-bedroom Fair Market Rent is $4,214. The Census median gross rent is $2,376 (margin of error $88), from B25031.