HUD Fair Market Rents
HUD Fair Market Rents (0BR / 1BR / 2BR / 3BR / 4BR) for representative HUD FMR Areas.
Example
You enter
- State (2-letter) CA
- FMR area name (optional substring) San Francisco
- Shard {fiscal_year, areas}
You get
- Kind matched
Checked against published worked examples from: HUD PD&R Fair Market Rents FY2026 (federal-published).
Details, formula, and sources
ScopeFY2026, and FY2027 from 2026-10-01, both bundled and selected by date. 40th-percentile recent-mover rent per HUD PD&R. Flags the Small Area FMR metros where voucher payment standards are set by ZIP Code instead.
Formula or tablePer-area lookup against HUD Fair Market Rents at the 40th-percentile rent of recent-mover units in the HUD-defined FMR Area. Five bedroom-count columns (0BR / 1BR / 2BR / 3BR / 4BR) published per area. FMR Areas are typically MSAs, HUD Metro FMR Areas (which subdivide an MSA where rent differs by sub-area), or counties for non-metropolitan FMR Areas.
Source and editionU.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research. Fair Market Rents for FY2026 (2025-10-01 to 2026-09-30) and FY2027 (from 2026-10-01), both bundled and selected by date. Methodology per 24 CFR Part 888.
Free accesshuduser.gov (Datasets, Fair Market Rents); per-area FMR lookup via the Geography selector on the same FMR dataset page.
What governsEstimate. Lender governs final underwriting and rate / fee disclosure. Appraiser governs the appraised value. State law and the agency's program guidelines may impose stricter limits than the published thresholds.
API field namesstate, area_name, shard, kind
- Coverage the bundled snapshot is a representative subset of ~19 MSAs / HUD Metro FMR Areas; canonical per-county lookup is at huduser.govHUD PD&R
- Percentile FMRs use the 40th-percentile rent of recent-mover units per 24 CFR §88824 CFR §888.113