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View all →Minimum Wage vs. Rent: How Many Workers It Takes to Afford a One-Bedroom in the 50 Largest U.S. Cities
Across the 50 largest US cities, no full-time minimum wage job covers a one-bedroom at 30% of income. In Atlanta, it would take 5 minimum wage earners to afford a single unit.
US cities where a teacher can't afford rent, ranked
A typical elementary school teacher in San Francisco, CA would spend +62.2% of income on the median rent — the steepest of any large US city, and rent-burdened in 198 cities nationwide.
The most and least expensive ZIP codes to rent in America
ZIP code 81611 in Aspen, CO is the most expensive in America at $18,041/month — about 26× the cheapest US ZIP, 65613 in Bolivar, MO.
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Landlords have always known what the market will bear. Now you do too.
Rent data used to be scattered, paywalled, or six months out of date. We built RentDataNow to fix that, combining researched data, HUD fair market rents, Census surveys, and real submissions from renters like you.
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Learn more about our methodology →Understanding Rent Prices Across America
Median rent is the midpoint of all rents in an area: half the listings are above it, half below. Averages get skewed by a handful of pricey outliers; the median doesn’t. We pull from public housing surveys, private sources, and renter-submitted data to keep the numbers grounded in what people are actually paying.
A city’s median rent can hide a lot. One neighborhood might run $900/month while another a few miles away is $1,500. That’s why we track rent at the ZIP code level. You can compare specific areas side by side instead of relying on one number for an entire city.
When you’re looking for a place, search the city or ZIP on RentDataNow, check whether rents have been rising or falling over recent months, and look at nearby ZIPs. Moving a few miles can mean a real difference in what you pay. Data updates frequently and includes submissions from actual renters, so you’re not working from Census figures that are two years old.