Average Rent in Maryland (2027) — HUD Fair Market Rents
The average two-bedroom rent in Maryland is $2,103 per month by HUD's FY 2027 Fair Market Rent data (population-weighted); two-bedroom FMRs range from $1,014 to $2,438 across 15 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, Maryland's typical two-bedroom FMR moved +7.4% versus FY 2026).
All 15 Maryland FMR areas
Sorted by two-bedroom rent, highest first. 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD HUD Metro FMR Area Metro 4 countiesCharles County · Frederick County · Montgomery County · Prince George's County | $2,111 | $2,204 | $2,438 | $3,107 | $3,658 | +8.5% |
Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD MSA Metro 7 countiesAnne Arundel County · Baltimore County · Baltimore city · Carroll County · Harford County · Howard County · Queen Anne's County | $1,523 | $1,625 | $2,006 | $2,509 | $2,789 | +8.0% |
| Calvert County, MD HUD Metro FMR Area Metro | $1,630 | $1,666 | $1,890 | $2,617 | $2,959 | -9.3% |
| Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD MSA Metro | $1,438 | $1,558 | $1,860 | $2,216 | $2,445 | +2.8% |
| St. Mary's County, MD HUD Metro FMR Area Metro | $1,328 | $1,642 | $1,787 | $2,242 | $2,853 | -2.5% |
| Salisbury, MD HUD Metro FMR Area Metro | $1,095 | $1,102 | $1,428 | $1,870 | $1,877 | +3.6% |
| Talbot County, MD Non-metro | $1,081 | $1,260 | $1,421 | $1,968 | $2,375 | +0.9% |
| Caroline County, MD Non-metro | $1,002 | $1,009 | $1,320 | $1,623 | $2,188 | +0.5% |
| Hagerstown, MD HUD Metro FMR Area Metro | $894 | $982 | $1,284 | $1,714 | $1,923 | +1.8% |
| Kent County, MD Non-metro | $956 | $1,140 | $1,241 | $1,603 | $2,050 | -0.4% |
| Worcester County, MD Non-metro | $990 | $995 | $1,184 | $1,639 | $1,979 | -0.8% |
| Dorchester County, MD Non-metro | $868 | $970 | $1,159 | $1,605 | $1,937 | +1.3% |
| Somerset County, MD HUD Metro FMR Area Metro | $905 | $910 | $1,144 | $1,498 | $1,504 | -2.0% |
| Allegany County, MD Non-metro | $862 | $888 | $1,014 | $1,383 | $1,468 | +4.2% |
| Garrett County, MD Non-metro | $853 | $877 | $1,014 | $1,339 | $1,344 | +4.2% |
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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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