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Average Rent in Alabama (2026) — HUD Fair Market Rents

HUD data · effective Oct 1, 2025 Alabama landlord-tenant laws →

The average two-bedroom rent in Alabama is $1,079 per month by HUD's FY 2026 Fair Market Rent data (population-weighted); two-bedroom FMRs range from $776 to $1,345 across 55 rent areas.

Fair Market Rent is HUD's annual estimate of what a modest rental costs in each local market — the 40th percentile of gross rents (rent plus tenant-paid utilities) for recent movers, published for studio through four-bedroom units and used to set Section 8 / Housing Choice Voucher payment standards. FMRs are a federal benchmark, not an asking-rent average: use them to sanity-check your pricing (statewide, Alabama's typical two-bedroom FMR moved +1.3% versus FY 2025).

All 55 Alabama FMR areas

Sorted by two-bedroom rent, highest first. 19 metro areas; the rest are non-metro county areas. "vs FY 2025" is the two-bedroom change from last year's FMR for the same area.

Area Studio1 BR2 BR3 BR4 BR 2 BR vs FY 2025
Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL MSA Metro $1,094$1,200$1,345$1,692$2,171 +8.1%
Huntsville, AL MSA Metro
2 counties Limestone County · Madison County
$1,030$1,136$1,310$1,690$2,109 +5.0%
Birmingham-Hoover, AL HUD Metro FMR Area Metro
5 counties Bibb County · Blount County · Jefferson County · Shelby County · St. Clair County
$1,024$1,155$1,266$1,583$1,801 -0.1%
Auburn-Opelika, AL HUD Metro FMR Area Metro $847$1,077$1,181$1,494$1,699 +1.1%
Tuscaloosa, AL HUD Metro FMR Area Metro
2 counties Hale County · Tuscaloosa County
$966$972$1,169$1,490$1,548 +2.7%
Greene County, AL HUD Metro FMR Area Metro $863$869$1,140$1,367$1,509 +6.1%
Columbus, GA-AL HUD Metro FMR Area Metro $895$939$1,088$1,445$1,703 -1.8%
Mobile, AL MSA Metro $854$919$1,083$1,414$1,445 -1.0%
Montgomery, AL MSA Metro
4 counties Autauga County · Elmore County · Lowndes County · Montgomery County
$860$870$1,016$1,304$1,537 -3.7%
Chambers County, AL Non-metro $691$770$1,002$1,265$1,327 +0.5%
Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL MSA Metro
2 counties Colbert County · Lauderdale County
$698$775$1,000$1,242$1,409 +2.7%
Macon County, AL HUD Metro FMR Area Metro $720$758$995$1,222$1,501 —
Washington County, AL Non-metro $729$818$983$1,292$1,314 —
Chilton County, AL HUD Metro FMR Area Metro $734$739$970$1,274$1,448 +10.1%
Anniston-Oxford, AL MSA Metro $753$757$962$1,300$1,361 +2.2%
Decatur, AL MSA Metro
2 counties Lawrence County · Morgan County
$755$776$961$1,262$1,550 +4.1%
Dothan, AL HUD Metro FMR Area Metro
2 counties Geneva County · Houston County
$757$762$950$1,288$1,428 +6.0%
Coffee County, AL Non-metro $693$711$933$1,298$1,383 +8.9%
Gadsden, AL MSA Metro $639$792$927$1,124$1,304 -1.6%
Pike County, AL Non-metro $677$695$912$1,093$1,208 -8.1%
Walker County, AL HUD Metro FMR Area Metro $644$724$886$1,232$1,481 —
Cullman County, AL Non-metro $666$670$879$1,137$1,381 -2.5%
Henry County, AL HUD Metro FMR Area Metro $665$669$878$1,078$1,217 +12.1%
Cleburne County, AL Non-metro $644$687$867$1,082$1,148 +4.7%
Tallapoosa County, AL Non-metro $637$663$857$1,030$1,216 +3.1%
Cherokee County, AL Non-metro $627$682$844$1,012$1,259 +4.8%
Wilcox County, AL Non-metro $632$656$843$1,079$1,261 -9.9%
Butler County, AL Non-metro $622$638$837$1,004$1,139 +3.5%
Dallas County, AL Non-metro $620$637$836$1,103$1,107 +1.8%
Sumter County, AL Non-metro $619$642$827$1,107$1,193 -9.9%
Talladega County, AL Non-metro $561$682$814$1,107$1,112 -0.5%
Perry County, AL Non-metro $596$636$803$963$1,198 +3.2%
Clarke County, AL Non-metro $588$603$791$1,034$1,261 +2.5%
Marengo County, AL Non-metro $582$693$783$1,018$1,187 +1.4%
Choctaw County, AL Non-metro $578$616$778$1,024$1,179 +0.8%
Randolph County, AL Non-metro $536$634$778$980$1,126 +0.8%
Barbour County, AL Non-metro $576$693$776$1,017$1,068 +0.5%
Bullock County, AL Non-metro $576$708$776$930$1,302 +0.5%
Clay County, AL Non-metro $576$591$776$1,024$1,027 +0.5%
Conecuh County, AL Non-metro $576$615$776$1,079$1,157 +0.5%
Coosa County, AL Non-metro $576$615$776$1,079$1,157 -2.0%
Covington County, AL Non-metro $576$591$776$999$1,302 +0.5%
Crenshaw County, AL Non-metro $588$591$776$930$1,027 +0.5%
Dale County, AL Non-metro $603$690$776$1,079$1,302 +0.5%
DeKalb County, AL Non-metro $576$591$776$992$1,302 +0.5%
Escambia County, AL Non-metro $576$675$776$972$1,203 +0.5%
Fayette County, AL Non-metro $576$671$776$1,079$1,157 +0.5%
Franklin County, AL Non-metro $576$704$776$976$1,071 +0.5%
Jackson County, AL Non-metro $576$643$776$1,004$1,234 +0.5%
Lamar County, AL Non-metro $618$636$776$1,024$1,040 +0.5%
Marion County, AL Non-metro $535$591$776$1,039$1,302 +0.5%
Marshall County, AL Non-metro $588$591$776$1,069$1,073 -0.5%
Monroe County, AL Non-metro $576$619$776$1,079$1,254 +0.5%
Pickens County, AL HUD Metro FMR Area Metro $588$591$776$994$1,290 +0.5%
Winston County, AL Non-metro $576$631$776$1,070$1,150 +0.5%

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About this data

Source: HUD FY 2026 Fair Market Rents, county-level file (revised), published at huduser.gov — a U.S. government work in the public domain, republished here unmodified. The typical-rent figure is the population-weighted average across the areas above (county populations from HUD's file); year-over-year comparisons match each area with last year's file by HUD area code. Effective October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026; last regenerated from HUD's file on 2026-07-20. FMRs cap what a housing authority can pay under the voucher program; your local Public Housing Authority's payment standard may be set between 90% and 110% of FMR. Full method notes: how the rent figures are computed.

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