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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 201 | Phenix City city | Alabama | $967 ±$47 | 38,499 |
| 201 | Michigan City city | Indiana | $967 ±$34 | 31,814 |
| 201 | Cedar Rapids city | Iowa | $967 ±$44 | 137,264 |
| 201 | Watertown city | New York | $967 ±$57 | 24,375 |
| 201 | Lawton city | Oklahoma | $967 ±$20 | 90,595 |
| 201 | Weslaco city | Texas | $967 ±$47 | 42,229 |
| 207 | Radcliff city | Kentucky | $971 ±$49 | 22,864 |
| 207 | Goldsboro city | North Carolina | $971 ±$54 | 34,383 |
| 207 | Wilson city | North Carolina | $971 ±$42 | 48,370 |
| 207 | Paris city | Texas | $971 ±$71 | 24,775 |
| 211 | Urbana city | Illinois | $972 ±$33 | 39,341 |
| 211 | Wyandotte city | Michigan | $972 ±$103 | 24,489 |
| 213 | Minot city | North Dakota | $973 ±$55 | 47,791 |
| 213 | Newark city | Ohio | $973 ±$30 | 50,783 |
| 215 | Muscatine city | Iowa | $974 ±$37 | 23,489 |
| 215 | Las Cruces city | New Mexico | $974 ±$41 | 114,197 |
| 217 | Springfield city | Illinois | $975 ±$21 | 113,330 |
| 217 | Evansville city | Indiana | $975 ±$19 | 116,116 |
| 217 | Wichita city | Kansas | $975 ±$16 | 397,945 |
| 217 | Findlay city | Ohio | $975 ±$68 | 40,287 |
| 217 | Anderson city | South Carolina | $975 ±$58 | 30,051 |
| 222 | Sioux City city | Iowa | $976 ±$27 | 86,101 |
| 222 | Tupelo city | Mississippi | $976 ±$74 | 37,791 |
| 222 | Gillette city | Wyoming | $976 ±$77 | 33,431 |
| 225 | Fairborn city | Ohio | $977 ±$30 | 34,534 |
| 226 | Davenport city | Iowa | $978 ±$23 | 100,913 |
| 227 | Topeka city | Kansas | $979 ±$32 | 125,786 |
| 228 | Grand Forks city | North Dakota | $980 ±$31 | 59,042 |
| 229 | Northport city | Alabama | $982 ±$45 | 31,218 |
| 229 | Port Huron city | Michigan | $982 ±$38 | 28,620 |
| 231 | Rockford city | Illinois | $985 ±$19 | 147,521 |
| 232 | Lewiston city | Maine | $986 ±$44 | 38,324 |
| 232 | Klamath Falls city | Oregon | $986 ±$48 | 22,115 |
| 234 | Shreveport city | Louisiana | $987 ±$20 | 180,982 |
| 235 | Brawley city | California | $988 ±$62 | 27,283 |
| 235 | Clovis city | New Mexico | $988 ±$84 | 37,942 |
| 237 | St. John town | Indiana | $989 ±$196 | 22,567 |
| 237 | Hamtramck city | Michigan | $989 ±$55 | 27,743 |
| 239 | Belvidere city | Illinois | $991 ±$68 | 24,752 |
| 239 | Kent city | Ohio | $991 ±$47 | 27,116 |
| 241 | Lebanon city | Pennsylvania | $992 ±$57 | 26,536 |
| 241 | Florence city | South Carolina | $992 ±$62 | 40,408 |
| 243 | Bryant city | Arkansas | $993 ±$54 | 21,504 |
| 243 | Lansing city | Michigan | $993 ±$24 | 113,023 |
| 245 | Sulphur city | Louisiana | $994 ±$142 | 20,775 |
| 246 | Shelbyville city | Indiana | $995 ±$44 | 20,296 |
| 247 | Dalton city | Georgia | $996 ±$55 | 34,538 |
| 247 | Muskegon city | Michigan | $996 ±$48 | 37,226 |
| 247 | Hazelwood city | Missouri | $996 ±$80 | 25,114 |
| 247 | Edinburg city | Texas | $996 ±$35 | 104,550 |
± figures are the published 90% margin of error; small differences between estimates may not be statistically significant.
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