HUD Fair Market Rents — FY2026 rents by area & bedroom size

Dataset · US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) · source URL ↗

HUD's FY2026 Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent) for every HUD FMR area — one row per area, the five bedroom sizes (efficiency/0BR through 4BR). ~4,764 areas (whole-county + New England town/sub-county areas). Aggregate dollar amounts — zero PII. FMRs set Section 8 / Housing Choice Voucher payment standards. Joins to FHFA house prices and IRS county income by 5-digit county FIPS (Connecticut's 2022+ Planning-Region recode handled via fips2024). Canonical /fair-market-rent/{fips} page per area. From the HUD USER FMR bulk CSV (key-free).

Source organization
US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
License / terms
Coverage
~4,764 FMR areas (FY2026)
Latest local indexed-row date
2026-06-26
API endpoint

Keywords

fair market rentFMRHUDSection 8housing choice voucherpayment standardrent2-bedroom rentrental housingaffordable housing

Provenance

The listed URL identifies a referenced source; it does not by itself document the ingestion endpoint. Referenced source URL: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/fmr.html. Source-specific terms apply. US federal employee-authored works are generally public domain under 17 USC 105; non-federal and third-party material retains source terms. Free or keyless access does not alter source terms. Metadata and normalization authored by MORVS (AI Analytics LLC) are CC0 only where expressly stated.

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