Average Rent in New York (2026) — HUD Fair Market Rents
The average two-bedroom rent in New York is $2,374 per month by HUD's FY 2026 Fair Market Rent data (population-weighted); two-bedroom FMRs range from $973 to $2,910 across 39 rent areas.
Fair Market Rent is HUD's annual estimate of what a modest rental costs in each local market — the 40th percentile of gross rents (rent plus tenant-paid utilities) for recent movers, published for studio through four-bedroom units and used to set Section 8 / Housing Choice Voucher payment standards. FMRs are a federal benchmark, not an asking-rent average: use them to sanity-check your pricing (statewide, New York's typical two-bedroom FMR moved +5.6% versus FY 2025).
All 39 New York FMR areas
Sorted by two-bedroom rent, highest first. 14 metro areas; the rest are non-metro county areas. "vs FY 2025" is the two-bedroom change from last year's FMR for the same area.
| Area | Studio | 1 BR | 2 BR | 3 BR | 4 BR | 2 BR vs FY 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
New York, NY HUD Metro FMR Area Metro 8 countiesBronx County · Kings County · New York County · Putnam County · Queens County · Richmond County · Rockland County · Westchester County | $2,529 | $2,655 | $2,910 | $3,644 | $3,959 | +4.7% |
Nassau-Suffolk, NY HUD Metro FMR Area Metro 2 countiesNassau County · Suffolk County | $1,992 | $2,379 | $2,747 | $3,563 | $3,768 | +6.2% |
Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY MSA Metro 2 countiesDutchess County · Orange County | $1,364 | $1,549 | $1,979 | $2,511 | $2,694 | — |
| Kingston, NY MSA Metro | $1,303 | $1,386 | $1,818 | $2,245 | $2,407 | +1.1% |
| Ithaca, NY MSA Metro | $1,263 | $1,466 | $1,753 | $2,102 | $2,624 | +3.0% |
Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY MSA Metro 5 countiesAlbany County · Rensselaer County · Saratoga County · Schenectady County · Schoharie County | $1,217 | $1,417 | $1,702 | $2,041 | $2,253 | +14.5% |
Rochester, NY MSA Metro 5 countiesLivingston County · Monroe County · Ontario County · Orleans County · Wayne County | $1,116 | $1,256 | $1,573 | $1,895 | $2,083 | +10.2% |
| Columbia County, NY Non-metro | $1,249 | $1,263 | $1,434 | $1,730 | $1,899 | +6.5% |
| Hamilton County, NY Non-metro | $1,075 | $1,089 | $1,429 | $1,713 | $1,892 | +7.5% |
| Watertown-Fort Drum, NY MSA Metro | $969 | $1,071 | $1,405 | $1,907 | $2,340 | +9.6% |
Syracuse, NY MSA Metro 3 countiesMadison County · Onondaga County · Oswego County | $995 | $1,123 | $1,392 | $1,691 | $1,848 | +5.4% |
| Greene County, NY Non-metro | $1,008 | $1,118 | $1,373 | $1,813 | $2,075 | +9.5% |
Glens Falls, NY MSA Metro 2 countiesWarren County · Washington County | $1,041 | $1,066 | $1,348 | $1,742 | $1,785 | -0.3% |
Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY MSA Metro 2 countiesErie County · Niagara County | $1,105 | $1,139 | $1,343 | $1,640 | $1,869 | +14.2% |
| Sullivan County, NY Non-metro | $995 | $1,070 | $1,302 | $1,811 | $1,891 | +6.5% |
| Elmira, NY MSA Metro | $949 | $978 | $1,283 | $1,606 | $1,713 | 0.0% |
| Clinton County, NY Non-metro | $973 | $980 | $1,246 | $1,494 | $1,650 | +3.8% |
| Otsego County, NY Non-metro | $847 | $965 | $1,228 | $1,472 | $1,626 | +3.7% |
| Cortland County, NY Non-metro | $954 | $960 | $1,198 | $1,510 | $2,010 | +7.2% |
| Essex County, NY Non-metro | $891 | $903 | $1,185 | $1,455 | $1,645 | +9.2% |
Utica-Rome, NY MSA Metro 2 countiesHerkimer County · Oneida County | $899 | $926 | $1,172 | $1,405 | $1,623 | +1.1% |
| Seneca County, NY Non-metro | $879 | $921 | $1,169 | $1,550 | $1,961 | +8.7% |
| Genesee County, NY Non-metro | $805 | $953 | $1,168 | $1,400 | $1,546 | +7.5% |
| Schuyler County, NY Non-metro | $792 | $875 | $1,148 | $1,508 | $1,520 | +8.6% |
| Cayuga County, NY Non-metro | $884 | $889 | $1,124 | $1,463 | $1,679 | +5.4% |
Binghamton, NY MSA Metro 2 countiesBroome County · Tioga County | $783 | $868 | $1,103 | $1,412 | $1,622 | -7.2% |
| Montgomery County, NY Non-metro | $892 | $899 | $1,102 | $1,381 | $1,484 | +7.4% |
| Yates County, NY Non-metro | $756 | $836 | $1,097 | $1,329 | $1,840 | — |
| Fulton County, NY Non-metro | $823 | $828 | $1,087 | $1,303 | $1,468 | +3.5% |
| Steuben County, NY Non-metro | $865 | $871 | $1,081 | $1,410 | $1,800 | +6.7% |
| St. Lawrence County, NY Non-metro | $742 | $816 | $1,071 | $1,284 | $1,418 | +3.4% |
| Franklin County, NY Non-metro | $720 | $862 | $1,044 | $1,299 | $1,489 | +6.2% |
| Delaware County, NY Non-metro | $813 | $884 | $1,033 | $1,437 | $1,490 | +10.5% |
| Lewis County, NY Non-metro | $758 | $839 | $1,008 | $1,402 | $1,646 | +5.1% |
| Cattaraugus County, NY Non-metro | $778 | $783 | $1,007 | $1,232 | $1,420 | +5.7% |
| Chautauqua County, NY Non-metro | $680 | $754 | $975 | $1,287 | $1,291 | +4.5% |
| Allegany County, NY Non-metro | $750 | $754 | $974 | $1,243 | $1,464 | +4.4% |
| Chenango County, NY Non-metro | $848 | $855 | $973 | $1,353 | $1,482 | +3.7% |
| Wyoming County, NY Non-metro | $840 | $844 | $973 | $1,336 | $1,603 | +4.3% |
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About this data
Source: HUD FY 2026 Fair Market Rents, county-level file (revised), published at huduser.gov — a U.S. government work in the public domain, republished here unmodified. The typical-rent figure is the population-weighted average across the areas above (county populations from HUD's file); year-over-year comparisons match each area with last year's file by HUD area code. Effective October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026; last regenerated from HUD's file on 2026-07-20. FMRs cap what a housing authority can pay under the voucher program; your local Public Housing Authority's payment standard may be set between 90% and 110% of FMR. Full method notes: how the rent figures are computed.
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