The median monthly rent for all apartment types in the U.S. has stabilized since 2022, despite some seasonal fluctuations. In August 2025, the monthly rent for a two-bedroom apartment amounted to ***** U.S. dollars. That was an increase from ***** U.S. dollars in January 2021, but a decline from the peak value of ***** U.S. dollars in August 2022. Where are the most expensive apartments in the U.S.? Apartment rents vary widely from state to state. To afford a two-bedroom apartment in California, for example, a renter needed to earn an average hourly wage of nearly ** U.S. dollars. This was approximately double the average wage in North Carolina and three times as much as the average wage in Arkansas. In fact, rental costs were considerably higher than the hourly minimum wage in all U.S. states. How did rents change in different states in the U.S.? In 2025, some of the most expensive states to rent an apartment only saw a moderate increase in rental prices. Nevertheless, rents increased in most states as of August 2025. In West Virginia, the annual rental growth was the highest, at ***** percent.

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The average monthly rent of apartments in Florida increased substantially in 2021, followed by two years of slight decrease. As of ********, the average rent of a two-bedroom apartment in Florida cost ***** U.S. dollars, which was an increase of *** U.S. dollars from ******** when prices started to rise.

Context

The purpose of this dataset is to provide updated data on the Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI). Most of the Zillow datasets on Kaggle have not been updated in four years, and no other dataset except one contains information related to rent. Providing updated data on this will also allow the community to analyze the effects of COVID-19 on rent prices, which could not be done with previous available data sets.

Content

Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI): A smoothed measure of the typical observed market rate rent across a given region. ZORI is a repeat-rent index that is weighted to the rental housing stock to ensure representativeness across the entire market, not just those homes currently listed for-rent. The index is dollar-denominated by computing the mean of listed rents that fall into the 40th to 60th percentile range for all homes and apartments in a given region, which is once again weighted to reflect the rental housing stock. Details available in ZORI methodology. https://www.zillow.com/research/methodology-zori-repeat-rent-27092/

This dataset contains two files. The Metro dataset looks at the median rent prices for large US cities. The ZIP code dataset breaks the US cities down by their ZIP codes. Note that the region IDs in both datasets are only used for tracking purposes. Also, some of the ZIP codes under the Region Name are less than the standard five-digit zip code and unreliable. Even if you add zeros in accounting for possible formatting mistakes. It is recommended to remove these entries since there is no way to identify which ZIP code the entry actually represents. These entries are left in here in case some analyst can solve the issue.

Acknowledgements

Zillow provides many useful open source datasets that relate to housing, which can be found at Zillow Research Data. https://www.zillow.com/research/data/ This dataset was also prompted by an older dataset I came across that only lacked updated data. https://www.kaggle.com/zillow/rent-index Thumbnail and banner picture is from this pixabay artist https://pixabay.com/users/pexels-2286921/

Inspiration

1. Where are the cheapest and most expensive ZIP codes to live?
2. We all know rent increases overtime, but has it been increasing at a faster rate since 2014?
3. If rent has been increasing at a faster rate, what year did it increase the fastest?
4. What cities or ZIP codes are increasing rent the fastest and by how much?
5. Did rent continue to increase during the COVID-19 pandemic, and was it at a faster or slower rate than previous years?

Correction coefficients are used to ensure equality of purchasing power of salaries of EU officials in the different duty stations. They are calculated as the ratio between the “economic parity” and the exchange rate to the Euro (where applicable). They operate as a percentage adjustment to remuneration expressed in local currency.

The method used to establish economic parities is to compare the price of a basket of goods and services purchased by the average retired international official in Belgium with the price of an equivalent basket of goods and services purchased by the average retired international official in each of the other countries.

The rent paid for an apartment or house, due to its high weight in the total household expenditure structure, plays a significant role in determining the overall correction coefficient.

Consequently, specific rent surveys are carried out annually in cooperation with relevant real estate agencies. The information obtained, and that derived from similar surveys in previous years, is used to determine the difference in rental prices between Brussels and each of the other locations where the survey is carried out, in rental prices for the same type of dwelling.

The scope of these surveys is to compare the average market rent for some specific kinds of dwellings in some pre-specified representative areas of Brussels with similar dwellings in similar (representative and comparable) areas in other EU capitals and duty stations.

The estate agency rent surveys (EARS) are organised jointly by Eurostat, the International Service for Remunerations and Pensions (ISRP) of the Co-ordinated Organisations and national statistical institutes (NSI) in each duty station, including Brussels, with the collaboration of estate agents in the duty stations concerned.

The work is done in accordance with a methodology approved by the Expert Working Group on Articles 64 & 65 of the Staff Regulations.
Whilst this rent information is collected for a specific purpose, according to a specific methodology, it may also be relevant for other purposes.

The average monthly home rental payment in the United Kingdom (UK) increased steadily since 2008, reaching 1, 258 British pounds in December 2023. In comparison, the average home buying costs amounted to 1,231 British Pounds that year, meaning that homeowners saved 27 British pounds monthly from the difference.

The average monthly rent of apartments in California increased substantially 2021, followed by a period of stabilization. In May 2024, the average rent of a two-bedroom apartment cost over ***** U.S. dollars, up from ***** U.S. dollars in December 2020 before rents started to rise. Nevertheless, not all cities saw rents rise at the same pace.

VITAL SIGNS INDICATOR
Rent Payments (EC8)

FULL MEASURE NAME
Median rent payment

LAST UPDATED
January 2023

DESCRIPTION
Rent payments refer to the cost of leasing an apartment or home and serves as a measure of housing costs for individuals who do not own a home. The data reflect the median monthly rent paid by Bay Area households across apartments and homes of various sizes and various levels of quality. This differs from advertised rents for available apartments, which usually are higher. Note that rent can be presented using nominal or real (inflation-adjusted) dollar values; data are presented inflation-adjusted to reflect changes in household purchasing power over time.

DATA SOURCE
U.S. Census Bureau: Decennial Census - https://nhgis.org
Count 2 (1970)
Form STF1 (1980-1990)
Form SF3a (2000)

U.S. Census Bureau: American Community Survey - https://data.census.gov/
Form B25058 (2005-2021; median contract rent)

Bureau of Labor Statistics: Consumer Price Index - https://www.bls.gov/data/
1970-2021

CONTACT INFORMATION
vitalsigns.info@mtc.ca.gov

METHODOLOGY NOTES (across all datasets for this indicator)
Rent data reflects median rent payments rather than list rents (refer to measure definition above). American Community Survey 1-year data is used for larger geographies – Bay counties and most metropolitan area counties – while smaller geographies rely upon 5-year rolling average data due to their smaller sample sizes. Note that 2020 data uses the 5-year estimates because the ACS did not collect 1-year data for 2020.

1970 Census data for median rent payments has been imputed from quintiles using methodology from California Department of Finance as the source data only provided the mean, rather than the median, monthly rent. Metro area boundaries reflects today’s metro area definitions by county for consistency, rather than historical metro area boundaries.

Inflation-adjusted data are presented to illustrate how rent payments have grown relative to overall price increases; that said, the use of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) does create some challenges given the fact that housing represents a major chunk of consumer goods bundle used to calculate CPI. This reflects a methodological tradeoff between precision and accuracy and is a common concern when working with any commodity that is a major component of CPI itself.

Private rent price statistics, including indices, annual percentage change and price levels.

Performance measures dataset

Context

This dataset contains information on rent pricing surrounding Kuala Lumpur and Selangor region, Malaysia. The information was scraped from mudah.my

Content

There are 13 features with one unique ids (ads_id) and one target feature (monthly_rent)

• ads_id: the listing ids (unique)
• prop_name: name of the building/ property
• completion_year: completion/ established year of the property
• monthly_rent: monthly rent in ringgit malaysia (RM)
• location: property location in Kuala Lumpur region
• property_type:property type such as apartment, condominium, flat, duplex, studio, etc
• rooms: number of rooms in the unit
• parking: number of parking space for the unit
• bathroom: number of bathrooms in the unit
• size: total area of the unit in square feet
• furnished: furnishing status of the unit (fully, partial, non-furnished)
• facilities: main facilities available
• additional_facilities: additional facilities (proximity to attraction area, mall, school, shopping, railways, etc)

Acknowledgements The data was scraped from mudah.my

Inspiration I have been living in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia since 2017, and in the past there was no easy way to understand whether certain unit pricing is making sense or not. With this dataset, I wanted to be able to answer the following questions:

• What are the biggest factor affecting the unit/rent pricing?
• Which location in Kuala Lumpur/ Selangor region that has the highest rent price? etc?

In 2024, the most expensive residential rental market in Europe was Luxembourg with rental costs of approximately *****euros per square meter.Paris and Dublin followed with rental costs of ***and *****euros per square meter. Rents increased across most markets - a trend that could also be observed in the housing market. How much does an apartment cost in different European cities? Renting a furnished studio apartment in some of the leading cities in Europe can cost anywhere between *** euros monthly (Budapest) and ***** euros (Amsterdam) per month. For a furnished one-bedroom apartment in Paris, France, one may be expected to pay on average ***** euros monthly. Which countries have the most affordable housing? The house price to rent ratio is an indicator of the affordability of owning housing over renting across European countries and is calculated as the nominal house prices divided by a rent price index. The higher the ratio, the more the gap between house prices and rental rates has widened since 2015 when the index base was 100. As of the first quarter of 2025, Finland, Italy, and Romania had the lowest house price to rent ratio, meaning that buying a house was most affordable there compared to renting.

This dataset provides comprehensive information on the average income and rent in various states across the United States for the year 2022. It aims to offer insights into state-level economic trends and housing market dynamics.

Column Descriptions:

Region: Name of the state within the United States.

Average_Rent: Description: Average monthly rent for residential properties in each state, reflecting prevailing rental costs.

Average_Income: Average per capita income within each state, representing the average earnings of individuals residing in the state over the year.

This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (247 items: Carbonear; Newfoundland and Labrador; Corner Brook; Newfoundland and Labrador; Grand Falls-Windsor; Newfoundland and Labrador; Gander; Newfoundland and Labrador ...), Type of structure (4 items: Apartment structures of three units and over; Apartment structures of six units and over; Row and apartment structures of three units and over; Row structures of three units and over ...), Type of unit (4 items: Two bedroom units; Three bedroom units; One bedroom units; Bachelor units ...).

Commercial rents services price index (CRSPI) by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Monthly data are available from January 2006 for the total index and from January 2019 for all other indexes. The table presents data for the most recent reference period and the last five periods. The base period for the index is (2019=100).

The dataset contains apartment sales and rent offers from the 15 largest cities in Poland (Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow, Wroclaw, Poznan, Gdansk, Szczecin, Bydgoszcz, Lublin, Katowice, Bialystok, Czestochowa). The data comes from local websites with apartments for sale. To fully capture the neighborhood of each apartment better, each offer was extended by data from the Open Street Map with distances to points of interest (POI). The data is collected monthly and covers a timespan between August 2023 and June 2024

Related work:

• Apartment for Sale in Poland - Data analysis
• Apartment for Sale in Poland - Deep Learning Model

Description

Files

• apartments_pl_YYYY_MM.csv - monthly snapshot of sell offers
• apartments_rent_pl_YYYY_MM.csv - a monthly snapshot of rent offers

Data Fields

• city - the name of the city where the property is located
• type - type of the building
• squareMeters - the size of the apartment in square meters
• rooms - number of rooms in the apartment
• floor / floorCount - the floor where the apartment is located and the total number of floors in the building
• buildYear - the year when the building was built
• latitude, longitude - geo coordinate of the property
• centreDistance - distance from the city centre in km
• poiCount - number of points of interest in 500m range from the apartment (schools, clinics, post offices, kindergartens, restaurants, colleges, pharmacies)
• [poiName]Distance - distance to the nearest point of interest (schools, clinics, post offices, kindergartens, restaurants, colleges, pharmacies)
• ownership - the type of property ownership
• condition - the condition of the apartment
• has[features] - whether the property has key features such as assigned parking space, balcony, elevator, security, storage room
• price - offer price in Polish Zloty
  • apartments_pl_YYYY_MM.csv: sale price
  • apartments_rent_pl_YYYY_MM.csv: monthly rent

Rental price statistics historical data time series (indices and annual percentage change). These are official statistics in development.

The dataset you provided contains monthly price index data for private rents in Great Britain. It includes three columns: "Time period," "Price Index," and "Rental price." Here is a detailed description:

Columns: Time period: The month and year in the format MMM-YYYY. Price Index: The index value representing the price level of private rents for that particular month. Rental price: The actual rental price value corresponding to the respective month. Summary: Time Range: The data spans from January 2017 to March 2024. Observations: There are 87 monthly records in the dataset. Trends: The Price Index starts at 86.9 in January 2017 and gradually increases to 110.3 by March 2024. The Rental price starts at 982 in January 2017 and rises to 1246 by March 2024.

The fourth quarter of 2024 brought increases in private rental rates in all surveyed Polish cities. The average apartment rent in Warsaw in this period amounted to ***** zloty, one percent higher than the previous year's fourth quarter. In the fourth quarter of 2020, all mentioned cities recorded a decrease in prices due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

A list of job applications filed for a particular day and associated data. Prior weekly and monthly reports are archived at DOB and are not available on NYC Open Data.