US cities with the lowest median rent
Find lower-cost rental markets using Census median monthly gross rent.
U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-year estimatesPeriod: 2020–2024 ACS 5-yearRetrieved 2026-10-05T08:15:40+00:00
Median monthly gross rent: ACS B25064_001E, including applicable utilities. Covers occupied cash-rent units, not advertised asking rents. Rent alone is not a complete cost-of-living index. ACS places, including census-designated places, with at least 20,000 residents in the same ACS release. ACS 5-year pooled estimates; margins of error are at the 90% confidence level. Ranks do not imply statistically significant differences. Missing, suppressed, and annotated/top-coded estimates are excluded.
Ranks are competition ranks computed across the full filtered set.
| Rank | Name | State | Median gross rent | Population |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | Moline city | Illinois | $900 ±$40 | 42,197 |
| 101 | Great Falls city | Montana | $900 ±$33 | 60,329 |
| 101 | Superior city | Wisconsin | $900 ±$70 | 26,677 |
| 104 | Toledo city | Ohio | $901 ±$14 | 267,463 |
| 105 | Hopkinsville city | Kentucky | $902 ±$37 | 30,906 |
| 105 | Alamogordo city | New Mexico | $902 ±$66 | 31,307 |
| 107 | Lima city | Ohio | $903 ±$37 | 35,010 |
| 108 | Muncie city | Indiana | $904 ±$30 | 64,751 |
| 109 | Searcy city | Arkansas | $905 ±$37 | 23,340 |
| 109 | Owensboro city | Kentucky | $905 ±$45 | 60,302 |
| 109 | Sandusky city | Ohio | $905 ±$33 | 24,606 |
| 112 | Asheboro city | North Carolina | $906 ±$40 | 27,580 |
| 112 | Elyria city | Ohio | $906 ±$34 | 53,035 |
| 114 | Kingsport city | Tennessee | $907 ±$39 | 56,262 |
| 115 | Charleston city | West Virginia | $908 ±$44 | 47,421 |
| 116 | Texarkana city | Arkansas | $909 ±$48 | 29,177 |
| 116 | Elizabethtown city | Kentucky | $909 ±$42 | 32,576 |
| 116 | Monroe city | Michigan | $909 ±$47 | 20,320 |
| 116 | Elmira city | New York | $909 ±$65 | 26,257 |
| 116 | Rome city | New York | $909 ±$59 | 31,795 |
| 121 | Willmar city | Minnesota | $910 ±$64 | 21,378 |
| 121 | Meridian city | Mississippi | $910 ±$46 | 34,137 |
| 123 | Huntington city | West Virginia | $912 ±$30 | 45,787 |
| 124 | Fond du Lac city | Wisconsin | $913 ±$37 | 44,494 |
| 125 | Hot Springs city | Arkansas | $914 ±$33 | 37,920 |
| 125 | Enid city | Oklahoma | $914 ±$33 | 50,653 |
| 127 | Flint city | Michigan | $915 ±$27 | 80,175 |
| 128 | Starkville city | Mississippi | $916 ±$34 | 25,721 |
| 128 | Bartlesville city | Oklahoma | $916 ±$33 | 37,878 |
| 130 | Richmond city | Kentucky | $917 ±$27 | 37,111 |
| 130 | Cookeville city | Tennessee | $917 ±$38 | 36,088 |
| 132 | Dayton city | Ohio | $918 ±$23 | 136,579 |
| 132 | Wooster city | Ohio | $918 ±$52 | 26,971 |
| 134 | Ottumwa city | Iowa | $921 ±$54 | 25,430 |
| 134 | North Platte city | Nebraska | $921 ±$51 | 22,831 |
| 136 | Terre Haute city | Indiana | $922 ±$32 | 58,427 |
| 136 | Hays city | Kansas | $922 ±$70 | 21,143 |
| 136 | Mount Pleasant city | Michigan | $922 ±$39 | 21,236 |
| 136 | Saginaw city | Michigan | $922 ±$23 | 43,536 |
| 136 | Piqua city | Ohio | $922 ±$57 | 20,646 |
| 141 | Waterloo city | Iowa | $923 ±$25 | 67,008 |
| 141 | Brownsville city | Texas | $923 ±$30 | 189,177 |
| 143 | Burlington city | Iowa | $924 ±$44 | 23,728 |
| 143 | Sheboygan city | Wisconsin | $924 ±$38 | 49,645 |
| 145 | Oxford city | Alabama | $925 ±$85 | 22,063 |
| 145 | Paragould city | Arkansas | $925 ±$31 | 30,215 |
| 145 | Anderson city | Indiana | $925 ±$28 | 55,367 |
| 145 | Laramie city | Wyoming | $925 ±$34 | 32,234 |
| 149 | Moscow city | Idaho | $927 ±$35 | 26,286 |
| 149 | Gallup city | New Mexico | $927 ±$73 | 21,023 |
± figures are the published 90% margin of error; small differences between estimates may not be statistically significant.
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