Average Rent in Washington (2027) — HUD Fair Market Rents
The average two-bedroom rent in Washington is $2,044 per month by HUD's FY 2027 Fair Market Rent data (population-weighted); two-bedroom FMRs range from $1,058 to $2,549 across 35 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, Washington's typical two-bedroom FMR moved +1.7% versus FY 2026).
All 35 Washington FMR areas
Sorted by two-bedroom rent, highest first. 15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Seattle-Bellevue, WA HUD Metro FMR Area Metro 2 countiesKing County · Snohomish County | $2,091 | $2,180 | $2,549 | $3,324 | $3,954 | +1.9% |
| Tacoma, WA HUD Metro FMR Area Metro | $1,491 | $1,682 | $2,064 | $2,849 | $3,219 | +4.7% |
| San Juan County, WA Non-metro | $1,408 | $1,546 | $2,022 | $2,647 | $2,657 | +14.8% |
| Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA MSA Metro | $1,370 | $1,535 | $1,967 | $2,637 | $2,804 | -3.2% |
| Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA MSA Metro | $1,586 | $1,656 | $1,946 | $2,541 | $3,141 | -0.7% |
Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA MSA Metro 2 countiesClark County · Skamania County | $1,527 | $1,633 | $1,878 | $2,550 | $3,069 | -2.3% |
| Bellingham, WA MSA Metro | $1,489 | $1,529 | $1,872 | $2,545 | $3,129 | +4.3% |
| Island County, WA Non-metro | $1,270 | $1,459 | $1,824 | $2,501 | $2,987 | +9.2% |
| Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA MSA Metro | $1,162 | $1,275 | $1,668 | $2,310 | $2,578 | -3.0% |
| Kittitas County, WA Non-metro | $1,152 | $1,267 | $1,655 | $2,292 | $2,766 | +13.8% |
| Jefferson County, WA Non-metro | $1,232 | $1,341 | $1,588 | $2,199 | $2,654 | +16.2% |
| Mason County, WA Non-metro | $1,147 | $1,202 | $1,572 | $2,177 | $2,320 | +16.1% |
| Walla Walla, WA MSA Metro | $1,127 | $1,193 | $1,561 | $2,154 | $2,609 | +0.7% |
| Spokane, WA HUD Metro FMR Area Metro | $1,116 | $1,173 | $1,494 | $2,047 | $2,497 | -2.4% |
Kennewick-Richland, WA MSA Metro 2 countiesBenton County · Franklin County | $1,094 | $1,230 | $1,487 | $2,051 | $2,341 | -3.3% |
Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA MSA Metro 2 countiesChelan County · Douglas County | $1,048 | $1,121 | $1,467 | $1,989 | $2,452 | -2.2% |
| Klickitat County, WA Non-metro | $1,008 | $1,106 | $1,447 | $1,888 | $1,965 | +8.3% |
| Lewis County, WA Non-metro | $999 | $1,097 | $1,435 | $1,870 | $2,177 | +12.2% |
| Clallam County, WA Non-metro | $1,000 | $1,098 | $1,429 | $1,973 | $2,289 | +12.9% |
| Longview-Kelso, WA MSA Metro | $974 | $1,124 | $1,398 | $1,936 | $2,337 | -3.7% |
| Grant County, WA Non-metro | $1,034 | $1,040 | $1,361 | $1,850 | $2,275 | +10.5% |
| Grays Harbor County, WA Non-metro | $937 | $1,045 | $1,345 | $1,862 | $2,123 | +10.6% |
| Yakima, WA MSA Metro | $997 | $1,004 | $1,313 | $1,818 | $2,049 | -4.4% |
| Pend Oreille County, WA Non-metro | $904 | $992 | $1,298 | $1,674 | $2,170 | +18.1% |
| Pacific County, WA Non-metro | $893 | $1,028 | $1,282 | $1,775 | $2,143 | +13.1% |
| Whitman County, WA Non-metro | $884 | $1,001 | $1,269 | $1,757 | $2,121 | +8.6% |
| Adams County, WA Non-metro | $879 | $965 | $1,262 | $1,747 | $2,109 | +11.4% |
| Lewiston, ID-WA MSA Metro | $938 | $943 | $1,234 | $1,709 | $2,028 | +1.1% |
| Okanogan County, WA Non-metro | $862 | $946 | $1,202 | $1,664 | $1,706 | +15.2% |
| Columbia County, WA Non-metro | $829 | $1,093 | $1,190 | $1,648 | $1,989 | +13.1% |
| Wahkiakum County, WA Non-metro | $824 | $1,066 | $1,183 | $1,638 | $1,977 | +4.0% |
| Garfield County, WA Non-metro | $796 | $874 | $1,143 | $1,583 | $1,910 | +9.2% |
| Stevens County, WA HUD Metro FMR Area Metro | $855 | $878 | $1,121 | $1,552 | $1,874 | -0.9% |
| Lincoln County, WA Non-metro | $760 | $950 | $1,091 | $1,511 | $1,824 | +6.9% |
| Ferry County, WA Non-metro | $737 | $809 | $1,058 | $1,465 | $1,768 | +8.7% |
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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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