Average Rent in Arizona (2026) — HUD Fair Market Rents
The average two-bedroom rent in Arizona is $1,706 per month by HUD's FY 2026 Fair Market Rent data (population-weighted); two-bedroom FMRs range from $1,129 to $1,921 across 14 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, Arizona's typical two-bedroom FMR moved -3.9% versus FY 2025).
All 14 Arizona FMR areas
Sorted by two-bedroom rent, highest first. 7 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 | Studio | 1 BR | 2 BR | 3 BR | 4 BR | 2 BR vs FY 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flagstaff, AZ MSA Metro | $1,597 | $1,727 | $1,921 | $2,343 | $2,568 | -1.1% |
Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ MSA Metro 2 countiesMaricopa County · Pinal County | $1,457 | $1,583 | $1,839 | $2,452 | $2,720 | -5.7% |
| Prescott Valley-Prescott, AZ MSA Metro | $1,129 | $1,309 | $1,637 | $2,277 | $2,497 | +1.9% |
| Gila County, AZ Non-metro | $1,120 | $1,127 | $1,479 | $1,871 | $2,170 | +5.0% |
| Tucson, AZ MSA Metro | $967 | $1,081 | $1,402 | $1,950 | $2,245 | +2.1% |
| Yuma, AZ MSA Metro | $1,046 | $1,053 | $1,382 | $1,892 | $2,318 | +0.4% |
| Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ MSA Metro | $1,053 | $1,060 | $1,365 | $1,897 | $2,090 | +0.6% |
| Navajo County, AZ Non-metro | $937 | $1,026 | $1,309 | $1,622 | $1,733 | -5.4% |
| Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ MSA Metro | $887 | $1,111 | $1,257 | $1,748 | $2,109 | +4.7% |
| Graham County, AZ Non-metro | $887 | $991 | $1,244 | $1,669 | $2,087 | -1.2% |
| Apache County, AZ Non-metro | $810 | $903 | $1,175 | $1,599 | $1,828 | +1.4% |
| Greenlee County, AZ Non-metro | $798 | $970 | $1,158 | $1,388 | $1,738 | -2.9% |
| La Paz County, AZ Non-metro | $873 | $879 | $1,153 | $1,604 | $1,934 | -3.2% |
| Santa Cruz County, AZ Non-metro | $778 | $860 | $1,129 | $1,570 | $1,615 | +1.3% |
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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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