Average Rent in Delaware (2026) — HUD Fair Market Rents
The average two-bedroom rent in Delaware is $1,648 per month by HUD's FY 2026 Fair Market Rent data (population-weighted); two-bedroom FMRs range from $1,399 to $1,810 across 3 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, Delaware's typical two-bedroom FMR moved 0.0% versus FY 2025).
All 3 Delaware FMR areas
Sorted by two-bedroom rent, highest first. 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD MSA Metro | $1,397 | $1,520 | $1,810 | $2,170 | $2,423 | +0.4% |
| Dover, DE MSA Metro | $1,158 | $1,165 | $1,470 | $2,044 | $2,285 | -1.5% |
| Sussex County, DE Non-metro | $1,059 | $1,066 | $1,399 | $1,757 | $2,172 | — |
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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.
Related on Landlord Atlas
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