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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 October 2026
Updated every morning. Pulled live from the same dataset that powers the National Rent Report.
New buildings by month
Apartment buildings added to the site each month, by the month their page went live.
Buildings tracked
11,811
Oct 2026 is the month to date.
| Month | Buildings added |
|---|---|
| Mar 2026 | 120 |
| Apr 2026 | 1484 |
| May 2026 | 3213 |
| Jun 2026 | 2667 |
| Jul 2026 | 1793 |
| Aug 2026 | 276 |
| Sep 2026 | 869 |
| Oct 2026 | 1389 |
Newest cities with 5+ buildings
- Mandan, ND5 buildings, since Oct 13
- Watertown, MA6 buildings, since Oct 13
- Coppell, TX5 buildings, since Oct 7
- Balch Springs, TX7 buildings, since Oct 4
- Duncanville, TX11 buildings, since Oct 2
- Hoboken, NJ10 buildings, since Jul 20
Ready-to-quote facts
- The median US apartment asking rent is $1,772 per month as of October 2026.
- Sunnyvale, CA is the most expensive tracked market at $6,528 average asking rent.
- Fort Smith, AR is the cheapest tracked market at $879 average asking rent.
- A one-bedroom rents at a $1,616 median; a two-bedroom at $1,940.
- The dataset spans 121,888 live listings across 1187 cities, refreshed every morning.
- Price history is tracked for every building and unit in the dataset, covering about 0.52% of the 23.4 million US apartment homes in 5+ unit buildings.
- Society Brooklyn at Degraw in Brooklyn, NY is the highest-earning apartment building tracked with a reported building size, at an estimated $3,060,640 per month in rental revenue.
How to cite us
Cite this data
Free to reference with attribution. Data reflects the October 2026 refresh.
Source: Average Rent (average-rent.com), October 2026. Average Rent. (October 2026). Average Rent US rent data. Retrieved from https://average-rent.com/press/ Source: <a href="https://average-rent.com/press/">Average Rent</a>, October 2026. Embed a live widget
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US median rent
A single city (Fort Smith, AR)
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.
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