Average Rent in Arizona (2027) — HUD Fair Market Rents
The average two-bedroom rent in Arizona is $1,616 per month by HUD's FY 2027 Fair Market Rent data (population-weighted); two-bedroom FMRs range from $1,038 to $1,734 across 14 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, Arizona's typical two-bedroom FMR moved -5.3% versus FY 2026).
All 14 Arizona FMR areas
Sorted by two-bedroom rent, highest first. 7 metro areas; the rest are non-metro county areas. "vs FY 2026" 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 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ MSA Metro 2 countiesMaricopa County · Pinal County | $1,390 | $1,493 | $1,734 | $2,287 | $2,537 | -5.7% |
| Flagstaff, AZ MSA Metro | $1,438 | $1,555 | $1,729 | $2,109 | $2,312 | -10.0% |
| Prescott Valley-Prescott, AZ MSA Metro | $1,079 | $1,242 | $1,550 | $2,146 | $2,263 | -5.3% |
| Tucson, AZ MSA Metro | $978 | $1,092 | $1,405 | $1,946 | $2,211 | +0.2% |
| Gila County, AZ Non-metro | $1,048 | $1,055 | $1,380 | $1,684 | $1,953 | -6.7% |
| Navajo County, AZ Non-metro | $892 | $966 | $1,264 | $1,567 | $1,661 | -3.4% |
| Yuma, AZ MSA Metro | $942 | $948 | $1,244 | $1,703 | $2,087 | -10.0% |
| Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ MSA Metro | $953 | $959 | $1,229 | $1,708 | $1,881 | -10.0% |
| Graham County, AZ Non-metro | $807 | $894 | $1,159 | $1,503 | $1,937 | -6.8% |
| Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ MSA Metro | $836 | $1,000 | $1,153 | $1,597 | $1,927 | -8.3% |
| Apache County, AZ Non-metro | $746 | $819 | $1,071 | $1,483 | $1,790 | -8.9% |
| Greenlee County, AZ Non-metro | $726 | $873 | $1,043 | $1,250 | $1,625 | -9.9% |
| Santa Cruz County, AZ Non-metro | $725 | $796 | $1,041 | $1,441 | $1,485 | -7.8% |
| La Paz County, AZ Non-metro | $786 | $792 | $1,038 | $1,444 | $1,741 | -10.0% |
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About this data
Source: HUD FY 2027 Fair Market Rents, county-level file, 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, 2026 through September 30, 2027; last regenerated from HUD's file on 2026-09-01. 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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