Average Rent in New Jersey (2027) — HUD Fair Market Rents
The average two-bedroom rent in New Jersey is $2,268 per month by HUD's FY 2027 Fair Market Rent data (population-weighted); two-bedroom FMRs range from $1,704 to $2,792 across 11 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, New Jersey's typical two-bedroom FMR moved +1.7% versus FY 2026).
All 11 New Jersey FMR areas
Sorted by two-bedroom rent, highest first. 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jersey City, NJ HUD Metro FMR Area Metro | $2,462 | $2,514 | $2,792 | $3,392 | $3,976 | +1.0% |
Middlesex-Somerset-Hunterdon, NJ HUD Metro FMR Area Metro 3 countiesHunterdon County · Middlesex County · Somerset County | $1,953 | $2,103 | $2,623 | $3,125 | $3,508 | +5.5% |
Monmouth-Ocean, NJ HUD Metro FMR Area Metro 2 countiesMonmouth County · Ocean County | $1,671 | $1,847 | $2,283 | $2,927 | $3,241 | -1.9% |
Bergen-Passaic, NJ HUD Metro FMR Area Metro 2 countiesBergen County · Passaic County | $1,772 | $1,987 | $2,282 | $2,771 | $3,497 | -1.8% |
| Trenton-Princeton, NJ MSA Metro | $1,561 | $1,764 | $2,242 | $2,741 | $3,081 | +15.0% |
Newark, NJ HUD Metro FMR Area Metro 4 countiesEssex County · Morris County · Sussex County · Union County | $1,637 | $1,850 | $2,233 | $2,785 | $3,188 | +1.3% |
| Warren County, NJ HUD Metro FMR Area Metro | $1,614 | $1,624 | $2,021 | $2,478 | $2,937 | +6.6% |
| Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ HUD Metro FMR Area Metro | $1,378 | $1,567 | $1,899 | $2,578 | $2,849 | +1.7% |
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD MSA Metro 4 countiesBurlington County · Camden County · Gloucester County · Salem County | $1,438 | $1,558 | $1,860 | $2,216 | $2,445 | +2.8% |
| Cape May County, NJ HUD Metro FMR Area Metro | $1,512 | $1,521 | $1,857 | $2,431 | $2,441 | +3.6% |
| Vineland, NJ MSA Metro | $1,288 | $1,420 | $1,704 | $2,360 | $2,478 | +1.9% |
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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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