U.S. rent and regional price data

Name: United States cost-of-living and rent benchmarks
Creator: Every City in the USA
License: https://www.everycityintheusa.com/data/packages/united-states-cost-of-living-rent/terms/license_commercial_united_states_cost_of_living_rent_80487b3c4f6f/

Compare regional price levels and HUD rent benchmarks across United States areas. Download the Excel workbook and CSVs.

536 regional price records with source geography and units
4,680 county/town rent records plus 51,655 ZIP-area rent records
Excel and CSV with field definitions and sources

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Map of one-year population percentage change, 2024 to 2025, for 19,329 cities in the contiguous United States, over shaded terrain relief. Green dots gained population, rust dots lost population, and gray dots did not change. Dot size reflects each city's one-year percentage change. Sources: U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025, and U.S. Geological Survey 3D Elevation Program. — **City population change, 2024 to 2025.** Green dots gained, rust dots lost, gray dots did not change. The motion is illustrative, not a time series.
Contiguous U.S. PEP cities, a subset of the package. Sources: U.S. Census Bureau PEP, Vintage 2025; shaded relief from USGS 3DEP.

**City population change, 2024 to 2025.** Green dots gained, rust dots lost, gray dots did not change. The motion is illustrative, not a time series.
Contiguous U.S. PEP cities, a subset of the package. Sources: U.S. Census Bureau PEP, Vintage 2025; shaded relief from USGS 3DEP.

Regional prices and rent benchmarks

Price and rent benchmarks: BEA regional price indexes and HUD gross-rent benchmarks for studios through four-bedroom homes, in separate tables at their original geographic level.
Files: An Excel workbook, 4 CSV data tables and source documentation.

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regional_price_indexes: up to eight sample rows and columns. Enable JavaScript to explore other files.
bea_table	bea_geo_fips	region_name	native_grain	region_state_fips	cross_state_area	reference_year	rpp_all_items
MARPP	10180	Abilene, TX (Metropolitan Statistical Area)	msa	48	false	2024	90.364
MARPP	10420	Akron, OH (Metropolitan Statistical Area)	msa	39	false	2024	93.37
MARPP	10500	Albany, GA (Metropolitan Statistical Area)	msa	13	false	2024	87.669
MARPP	10540	Albany, OR (Metropolitan Statistical Area)	msa	41	false	2024	102.1
MARPP	10580	Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY (Metropolitan Statistical Area)	msa	36	false	2024	99.566
MARPP	10740	Albuquerque, NM (Metropolitan Statistical Area)	msa	35	false	2024	95.546
MARPP	10780	Alexandria, LA (Metropolitan Statistical Area)	msa	22	false	2024	85.686
MARPP	10900	Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ (Metropolitan Statistical Area)	msa	34\|42	true	2024	99.968

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What does the package cover?

Native HUD rents and BEA regional prices across the fifty states and D.C. Puerto Rico and other territories are excluded. These are program benchmarks and native regional price levels, not measured prices for every city.

Applicable FY2026/FY2027 rents; inspect fiscal_year, effective_date and effective_status by row; official notices reviewed October 19, 2026: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
2024 regional price parities; published native regions; source zero placeholders are not valid prices: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
July 2023 CBSA delineations: U.S. Office of Management and Budget, CBSA delineations

HUD ZIP codes are not universally Census ZCTAs. Cross-state regional values describe the whole source area. No nearest-centroid city rent estimates are included. Every City in the USA is independent and not affiliated with BEA or HUD.

What's included in the download?

An Excel workbook, 4 CSV data tables and source documentation. Full files and sample files use the same columns. Every file is listed below.

13 files. 12 are previewed in the sample above. The rest are marked Not in the sample.

cost_of_living_rent.xlsx: Excel sheets matching the three separate HUD/BEA native-geography tables. No city allocation or interpolation is applied.
CITATION.txt: Source agencies, vintages and citation instructions for this release.
LICENSE.txt: The approved named-release evaluation license for simulated-payment testing.
README.md: How to use the files, with source coverage, units and limitations.
SOURCE_LINEAGE.json: Accepted source references, source vintages, rights decisions and transformations.
coverage_report.json: Geography coverage, native counts and limitations for this full package or sample.
field_dictionary.json: Field definitions, units, text identifiers and missing-value rules.
hud_geography_rents.csv: Native HUD county/town and separately coded county-portion memberships. hud_county_prefix is a HUD source prefix, not a guaranteed Census county FIPS; HUD 29056 is Sullivan city part of Crawford County, Missouri, Census 29055. Read fiscal_year and effective_date by row.
hud_zip_rents.csv: Applicable HUD FY2026/FY2027 rents, reviewed October 19, 2026. ZIP plus HUD area is the key; whole intersecting source areas retain cross-state rows. Two Grafton County NH ZIPs retain FY2026 separately. This is not a complete USPS directory.
regional_price_coverage.csv: Complete selected native BEA regional universe and all five original source strings. Four national nonmetro partitions contain only zero placeholders, have no valid published index, and are excluded from price arithmetic. Zero does not establish geographic absence.
regional_price_indexes.csv: BEA 2024 price levels for whole United States-intersecting metropolitan areas and state/metro/nonmetro totals. U.S. = 100; these are not inflation rates or household budgets.
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PACKAGE_MANIFEST.json: Full package identity, source vintages, file hashes and publication state.Not in the sampleThe full-package manifest records the complete download; the sample has its own sample_manifest.json.

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How does the sample relate to the full package?

Sample rows come from the full release, with the same columns and workbook sheets. Sample documentation describes its scope and selection. The sample is for inspecting the files, not a representative statistical sample.

How should I read the numbers?

Regional price indexes compare places, not inflation over time. HUD rents are benchmarks, not current listings or guaranteed voucher payments. Source years and effective-date exceptions are documented in the files. The regional coverage table preserves source zero placeholders and explains unavailable price indexes. These records never become zero prices. Read the methodology and source files before comparing estimates.

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