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Rent Prices

Lower median gross rent scores higher.

Scale0-100

Higher values rank better for this score.

How It's Calculated

The latest published score is normalized to a 0-100 scale. The method below explains what the score rewards, with technical source metadata available for audit.

Scoring Method

How the ranking is built

Rent Prices rewards places with lower typical monthly rent.

  1. 1

    Median gross rent is converted to a 0-100 score where lower rent scores higher.

  2. 2

    The normalization is population-weighted inverse percentile rank over the full observed housing dataset.

Technical details
Score TypeMaster Score

Read from the current master score table for this criterion.

Ranking BasisSingle Score

The top 10 below ignore your blended relocation weights and sort only by Rent Prices.

No source details available for this score.

What This Score Means

Rent Prices rewards places with lower typical monthly rent.

Statistics Feeding This Score

  • Median gross rent

    ACS monthly median gross rent for the place.

    Source: U.S. Census American Community Survey 5-Year

Source Data

Source: U.S. Census American Community Survey 5-YearCensus ACS 5-year estimates for housing, income, population, occupation, education, and race/ethnicity inputs at place, county, or CBSA geography depending on the score.

Known Limits

  • ACS values are place-level estimates, not live listings or neighborhood-level prices.
  • Scores compare places against the current scored dataset using percentile-rank normalization, so the full observed ordering matters without p5/p95 clipping.
  • Affordability does not include taxes, insurance, utilities, commuting costs, or local wage differences beyond median household income.

Top 10 Locations

Ranked by Rent Prices.

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