Average Rent in New York (2027) — HUD Fair Market Rents
The average two-bedroom rent in New York is $2,402 per month by HUD's FY 2027 Fair Market Rent data (population-weighted); two-bedroom FMRs range from $1,014 to $2,971 across 39 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 York's typical two-bedroom FMR moved +1.3% versus FY 2026).
All 39 New York FMR areas
Sorted by two-bedroom rent, highest first. 14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
New York, NY HUD Metro FMR Area Metro 8 countiesBronx County · Kings County · New York County · Putnam County · Queens County · Richmond County · Rockland County · Westchester County | $2,593 | $2,729 | $2,971 | $3,760 | $4,121 | +2.1% |
Nassau-Suffolk, NY HUD Metro FMR Area Metro 2 countiesNassau County · Suffolk County | $1,964 | $2,285 | $2,689 | $3,458 | $3,671 | -2.1% |
Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY MSA Metro 2 countiesDutchess County · Orange County | $1,484 | $1,659 | $2,131 | $2,685 | $2,824 | +7.7% |
| Kingston, NY MSA Metro | $1,308 | $1,436 | $1,878 | $2,282 | $2,468 | +3.3% |
Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY MSA Metro 5 countiesAlbany County · Rensselaer County · Saratoga County · Schenectady County · Schoharie County | $1,238 | $1,425 | $1,711 | $2,039 | $2,249 | +0.5% |
| Ithaca, NY MSA Metro | $1,198 | $1,427 | $1,709 | $2,040 | $2,631 | -2.5% |
| Columbia County, NY Non-metro | $1,259 | $1,300 | $1,503 | $1,837 | $1,975 | +4.8% |
Syracuse, NY MSA Metro 3 countiesMadison County · Onondaga County · Oswego County | $1,050 | $1,196 | $1,493 | $1,808 | $1,962 | +7.3% |
| Watertown-Fort Drum, NY MSA Metro | $1,012 | $1,111 | $1,453 | $1,995 | $2,376 | +3.4% |
Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY MSA Metro 2 countiesErie County · Niagara County | $1,178 | $1,203 | $1,423 | $1,732 | $1,977 | +6.0% |
Rochester, NY MSA Metro 5 countiesLivingston County · Monroe County · Ontario County · Orleans County · Wayne County | $1,005 | $1,131 | $1,416 | $1,706 | $1,875 | -10.0% |
| Greene County, NY Non-metro | $961 | $1,095 | $1,354 | $1,768 | $2,106 | -1.4% |
| Elmira, NY MSA Metro | $1,020 | $1,030 | $1,348 | $1,643 | $1,793 | +5.1% |
Glens Falls, NY MSA Metro 2 countiesWarren County · Washington County | $1,066 | $1,073 | $1,347 | $1,745 | $1,770 | -0.1% |
| Sullivan County, NY Non-metro | $1,005 | $1,039 | $1,299 | $1,799 | $1,824 | -0.2% |
| Hamilton County, NY Non-metro | $968 | $982 | $1,287 | $1,542 | $1,703 | -9.9% |
| Otsego County, NY Non-metro | $860 | $961 | $1,235 | $1,472 | $1,653 | +0.6% |
Binghamton, NY MSA Metro 2 countiesBroome County · Tioga County | $849 | $954 | $1,219 | $1,535 | $1,769 | +10.5% |
Utica-Rome, NY MSA Metro 2 countiesHerkimer County · Oneida County | $857 | $946 | $1,210 | $1,442 | $1,636 | +3.2% |
| Clinton County, NY Non-metro | $936 | $942 | $1,205 | $1,436 | $1,630 | -3.3% |
| Schuyler County, NY Non-metro | $822 | $902 | $1,180 | $1,445 | $1,551 | +2.8% |
| Cortland County, NY Non-metro | $934 | $940 | $1,171 | $1,473 | $1,957 | -2.3% |
| Essex County, NY Non-metro | $858 | $895 | $1,171 | $1,425 | $1,631 | -1.2% |
| Seneca County, NY Non-metro | $797 | $927 | $1,145 | $1,539 | $1,914 | -2.1% |
| Genesee County, NY Non-metro | $775 | $894 | $1,113 | $1,326 | $1,463 | -4.7% |
| Montgomery County, NY Non-metro | $814 | $862 | $1,111 | $1,359 | $1,490 | +0.8% |
| Cayuga County, NY Non-metro | $872 | $877 | $1,074 | $1,424 | $1,637 | -4.4% |
| Steuben County, NY Non-metro | $831 | $836 | $1,058 | $1,399 | $1,768 | -2.1% |
| Yates County, NY Non-metro | $736 | $808 | $1,057 | $1,368 | $1,767 | -3.6% |
| Fulton County, NY Non-metro | $770 | $803 | $1,051 | $1,252 | $1,427 | -3.3% |
| St. Lawrence County, NY Non-metro | $725 | $796 | $1,041 | $1,246 | $1,368 | -2.8% |
| Delaware County, NY Non-metro | $732 | $858 | $1,017 | $1,408 | $1,442 | -1.5% |
| Allegany County, NY Non-metro | $770 | $775 | $1,014 | $1,254 | $1,604 | +4.1% |
| Cattaraugus County, NY Non-metro | $742 | $794 | $1,014 | $1,274 | $1,438 | +0.7% |
| Chautauqua County, NY Non-metro | $706 | $786 | $1,014 | $1,338 | $1,393 | +4.0% |
| Chenango County, NY Non-metro | $850 | $855 | $1,014 | $1,404 | $1,512 | +4.2% |
| Franklin County, NY Non-metro | $706 | $860 | $1,014 | $1,209 | $1,415 | -2.9% |
| Lewis County, NY Non-metro | $743 | $860 | $1,014 | $1,404 | $1,591 | +0.6% |
| Wyoming County, NY Non-metro | $864 | $869 | $1,014 | $1,328 | $1,690 | +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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