What are HUD FMR and SAFMR?

Fair Market Rent (FMR) is a set of rent estimates published by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). FMRs are commonly used as a benchmark for rental assistance programs, including the Housing Choice Voucher (Section 8) program.

How to read the numbers

HUD publishes FMR values by bedroom size (typically 0–4 bedrooms). These figures represent an estimate of what it costs to rent a modest unit in a given area. Different programs may apply local rules and may use payment standards that are above or below the published HUD FMR.

What is SAFMR?

Small Area Fair Market Rent (SAFMR) is HUD’s ZIP-code level version of Fair Market Rent for certain metropolitan areas. The goal is to reflect meaningful rent differences within a metro region, where neighborhoods can vary widely.

Standard FMR is often published at a county or metro-area level. SAFMR can help identify which ZIP codes are relatively more expensive or more affordable compared to the county median.

On fmr.fyi, when a ZIP or area is designated for SAFMR, we label the result as SAFMR. If SAFMR isn’t applicable, we fall back to the county/metropolitan FMR.

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