Built for rural counties & small-town America
HUD housing data for the towns big sites skip.
Fair Market Rent, Section 8 income limits, and the housing authority that serves your county — for 3,222 rural and non-metro counties no apartment site bothers to cover.
Browse all 52 states What is Fair Market Rent?
Featured rural counties
A snapshot of the kind of county-level data on every page — FY2024 FMR, area median income, and the local PHA name.
Barbour County
Alabama
- 2BR FMR
- $870/mo
- AMI
- $80,557
- Section 8 cap
- $28,200
Barbour County Housing Authority →
Aleutians West County
Alaska
- 2BR FMR
- $1,545/mo
- AMI
- $118,453
- Section 8 cap
- $41,450
Aleutians West County Housing Authority →
Gila County
Arizona
- 2BR FMR
- $1,510/mo
- AMI
- $98,946
- Section 8 cap
- $34,650
Gila County Housing Authority →
Ashley County
Arkansas
- 2BR FMR
- $1,000/mo
- AMI
- $76,053
- Section 8 cap
- $26,600
Ashley County Housing Authority →
Amador County
California
- 2BR FMR
- $2,425/mo
- AMI
- $111,049
- Section 8 cap
- $38,850
Amador County Housing Authority →
Adams County
Colorado
- 2BR FMR
- $1,620/mo
- AMI
- $115,766
- Section 8 cap
- $40,500
Adams County Housing Authority →
Fair Market Rent
What HUD will pay for a unit in your county or metro area, by bedroom size. Updated each fiscal year. How FMR works →
Income limits
The 30%, 50%, and 80% of area median income brackets that decide who qualifies for HUD-subsidized housing. How limits are set →
Local PHAs
Public Housing Agency contact details for every county we cover, plus a link straight to HUD's official PHA directory for verification. More HUD resources →
Start with your state
Each state hub lists every county and every covered town, organized for fast browsing.
Why a separate site for rural housing data?
Every Fair Market Rent and income-limit page on the major apartment sites is built for someone moving inside a metro area. Search for "affordable housing Lincoln County" or "Section 8 income limits rural Iowa" and you'll get either a Zillow listings page that doesn't cover your county at all, or a HUD report PDF written for housing professionals — not for someone trying to figure out whether their family qualifies and which phone number to call. RentEasy Guide is the in-between: a plain-English page for every U.S. county and the small towns inside it, built so the actual numbers and the actual phone number are visible without scrolling, downloading, or signing up.
The data on every page comes from three federal datasets we re-publish in a more readable form: the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Fair Market Rent dataset, HUD's annual Income Limits dataset, and the HUD Public Housing Agency contact directory. Geographic boundaries (which town is in which county, where each town actually sits on the map) come from the U.S. Census Bureau's 2023 TIGER/Line gazetteer and the official 2020 place-to-county relationship file.