U.S. Map of Fair Market Rent by County

This is an interactive map of Fair Market Rent in U.S. counties. Yellow hues represent lower rents. Fuchsia and blue hues represent higher rents. Click the buttons to find different rent rates, between lower and higher number of rooms per housing unit. The cities are depicted for context. Hover over the map to see the county, state, and Fair Market Rent values. Zoom in for more details. Scroll down for more information.

Fair Market Rent (US$)

Fair Market Rent

"Fair Market Rent, or FMR, is a statistic used by the HUD (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development) and local affordable housing organizations to determine rent rates and housing assistance payment amounts for the different assistance programs, like the Housing Choice Voucher Program (Section 8)."

FMR is a measure of what a fair rate (slightly below the median) would be for a rental property in a particular area. Source: Innago.

Fair Market Rent (FMR) is an “estimate of the amount of money that would cover gross rents (rent and utility expenses) on 40% of the rental housing units in an area.

FMR rent depends on certain home features like square footage, number of bedrooms, and location.

Fair Market Rent Map

The information used for this map was downloaded from HUDuser.gov, and it is from 2025.

The rents were downloaded as HUD area codes. Because counties with large populations had more than one HUD area code, the FMR values are the medians.

Studio refers to housing units with no bedroom.

For an in-depth look at FMR's, Amazon has Establishing a More Effective Fair Market Rent System Using Small Area Fair Market Rents in the Housing Choice Voucher Program (US Department of ... Development Regulation) (HUD) (2018 Edition).

This rule provides for the use of Small Area FMRs, in place of the 50th percentile rent, for certain metropolitan areas, to address high levels of voucher concentration in certain communities.