Daily Maps · September 12, 2026 · Archive
Where a two-bedroom still rents for under $900
In 2,095 of the 3,167 counties with data, about two in three, the typical two-bedroom rents for $900 a month or less, yet those counties hold only 17.8 percent of the population. Texas has the most at 127 counties, followed by Georgia with 113, Missouri with 106 and Kentucky with 104. The biggest places under the line are Hidalgo County, Texas at $864, Cameron County, Texas at $821, and Stark County, Ohio at $841. The national county median is $807, and just 31 counties top $2,000.
How to read this map
The map sets one range on the county data: 2-Bedroom Rent (county) from $0/mo to $900/mo. A county is drawn solid navy when it falls inside every range, dotted when it misses one, and hatched when it reports no figure for one of the measures, so a hatched county is neither a match nor a miss. Recounted today from the county database, 2,095 of the 3,158 counties with a figure for every range fall inside all of them, and Texas has the most with 127. The count in the title is the count on the day the map ran; the two can differ when a source is refreshed.
The figures are the same ones behind every county page on this site: Census population and household income, Zillow home values, HUD fair market rents, County Health Rankings measures of crime and health, NOAA temperatures and USDA amenity scores, each stored with its publication year and listed below for this map. "Play with this map" opens the live county map with these ranges already set, so you can move a handle and watch the count change; "Make your own" starts from a blank map.
Sources
- Census ACS
Solid navy marks counties inside every range on this map, dotted counties miss one or all of them, and hatched counties have no figure for that measure. On a heatmap, darker means higher and faded counties fall outside the range.