US cities with the lowest median rent
Find lower-cost rental markets using Census median monthly gross rent.
U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-year estimatesPeriod: 2020–2024 ACS 5-yearRetrieved 2026-10-05T08:15:40+00:00
Median monthly gross rent: ACS B25064_001E, including applicable utilities. Covers occupied cash-rent units, not advertised asking rents. Rent alone is not a complete cost-of-living index. ACS places, including census-designated places, with at least 20,000 residents in the same ACS release. ACS 5-year pooled estimates; margins of error are at the 90% confidence level. Ranks do not imply statistically significant differences. Missing, suppressed, and annotated/top-coded estimates are excluded.
Ranks are competition ranks computed across the full filtered set.
| Rank | Name | State | Median gross rent | Population |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2301 | Ladera Ranch CDP | California | $3,350 ±$202 | 23,793 |
| 2302 | Plainview CDP | New York | $3,392 ±$619 | 25,982 |
| 2303 | McLean CDP | Virginia | $3,422 ±$246 | 49,627 |
| 2304 | Manhattan Beach city | California | $3,449 ±$250 | 34,210 |
| 2305 | Palo Alto city | California | $3,484 ±$157 | 67,237 |
± figures are the published 90% margin of error; small differences between estimates may not be statistically significant.
2305 ranked entries.