Fair Market Rent in Delaware by county (FY 2026)

Delaware only has three counties, so this one's quick. The statewide median two-bedroom FMR is $1,470. New Castle County sits highest at $1,810, tied to the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington metro area. Sussex County comes in lowest at $1,399. Don't let that low number fool you. Sussex covers everything from beach towns to farmland, and its ZIP-level Small Area FMRs stretch from $1,260 to $2,100, the widest spread in the state. A renter near the coast and a renter twenty miles inland are looking at very different numbers, even inside the same county line. Kent County lands in the middle at $1,470, set by the Dover metro.

2 of the 3 counties sit inside a HUD metro area and share that metro's rate. The other 1 get a county rate built from their own rents. The Delaware median of $1,470 is about 44% above the national median county ($1,018). HUD also publishes ZIP-level Small Area FMRs covering 3 of the 3 counties, which is where the real variation shows up. Pick a county below for the full studio-to-four-bedroom table, payment standard ranges and ZIP rates.

The median two-bedroom moved down 1% from FY 2025. 2 counties went up, 1 went down, and the rest held.

HUD has already published FY 2027, effective October 1, 2026. Two-bedroom rates go up in 3 counties, down in 0, and hold in the rest. The table shows both years.