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Name: Average Rent US rent dataset
Creator: Average Rent
License: https://average-rent.com/terms/
Keywords: rent data, us rent statistics, media kit, apartment rent data, press

Average Rent publishes the raw distribution of live apartment asking prices across the US, refreshed every morning. The figures below are free to cite with attribution. Need a custom cut by city, bedroom, or time range? Get in touch.

The numbers, as of August 2026

Updated every morning. Pulled live from the same dataset that powers the National Rent Report.

131,820

Live listings analyzed

9,561

Apartment properties

1135

Cities covered

50 + DC

States covered

$1,853

National median asking rent

$2,093

Mean asking rent

$1,702

Median 1-bedroom

Year-over-year change

Ready-to-quote facts

The median US apartment asking rent is $1,853 per month as of August 2026.
Redwood City, CA is the most expensive tracked market at $5,170 average asking rent.
Bossier City, LA is the cheapest tracked market at $834 average asking rent.
A one-bedroom rents at a $1,702 median; a two-bedroom at $2,005.
The dataset spans 131,820 live listings across 1135 cities, refreshed every morning.
Price history is tracked for every building and unit in the dataset, covering about 0.56% of the 23.4 million US apartment homes in 5+ unit buildings.
Willoughby in Brooklyn, NY is the highest-earning apartment building tracked with a reported building size, at an estimated $2,452,460 per month in rental revenue.

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About the data

Every figure is the raw asking price from live apartment listings, refreshed every morning, with no statistical model or survey in between. Median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean sits above it because a luxury tail pulls the average up. Coverage skews toward metros with larger professionally-managed inventories. For methodology detail and comparison against Zillow ZORI and RentCafe, see the National Rent Report and the coverage page.

Media enquiries and custom data requests: contact us or email support@average-rent.com. Average Rent is a product of Work4Coins LLC.