Fair Market Rent in District of Columbia by county (FY 2026)

Washington DC is its own county, so there's just one number to know: the two-bedroom FMR is $2,246 across the whole district. No other county to compare it to here, DC files as a single HUD area. Zoom into the ZIP-level Small Area FMRs and that one number stops telling the whole story. Rates run from $1,490 up to $3,370 across DC's 277 ZIP codes, 106 of which get their own Small Area rate instead of the citywide figure. That's a swing of nearly $1,900 between the cheapest and most expensive ZIPs, all inside a city where the county-level number treats every block the same.

1 of the 1 county sit inside a HUD metro area and share that metro's rate. The other 0 get a county rate built from their own rents. The District of Columbia median of $2,246 is about 121% above the national median county ($1,018). HUD also publishes ZIP-level Small Area FMRs covering 1 of the 1 county, 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 3% from FY 2025. 0 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 1 counties, down in 0, and hold in the rest. The table shows both years.