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Average Rent publishes the raw distribution of live apartment asking prices across the US, refreshed every morning. The figures below are free to cite with attribution. Need a custom cut by city, bedroom, or time range? Get in touch.
The numbers, as of June 2026
Updated every morning. Pulled live from the same dataset that powers the National Rent Report.
Ready-to-quote facts
- The median US apartment asking rent is $1,813 per month as of June 2026.
- Redwood City, CA is the most expensive tracked market at $5,437 average asking rent.
- Amarillo, TX is the cheapest tracked market at $808 average asking rent.
- A one-bedroom rents at a $1,665 median; a two-bedroom at $1,994.
- The dataset spans 90,079 live listings across 810 cities, refreshed every morning.
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Free to reference with attribution. Data reflects the June 2026 refresh.
Source: Average Rent (average-rent.com), June 2026. Average Rent. (June 2026). Average Rent US rent data. Retrieved from https://average-rent.com/press/ Source: <a href="https://average-rent.com/press/">Average Rent</a>, June 2026. Embed a live widget
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US median rent
A single city (Amarillo, TX)
About the data
Every figure is the raw asking price from live apartment listings, refreshed every morning, with no statistical model or survey in between. Median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean sits above it because a luxury tail pulls the average up. Coverage skews toward metros with larger professionally-managed inventories. For methodology detail and comparison against Zillow ZORI and RentCafe, see the National Rent Report and the coverage page.
Media enquiries and custom data requests: contact us or email [email protected]. Average Rent is a product of Work4Coins LLC.