Telephone Rent Surveys

In 2002 HUD conducted 57 Random Digit Dialing (RDD) telephone surveys in 41 fair market rent (FMR) areas. The purpose was to estimate FMR, which is the rent standard used in its Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program. The table below lists the survey date and the interquartile range (25th percentile, median, and 75th percentile) of the two-bedroom gross rents (including utilities) for all renters from all of the RDD surveys conducted by HUD’s contractor. Seventeen of these surveys were conducted in the same FMR area (Los Angeles). These surveys exclude units less than 2 years old, public housing units, seasonal units, and units owned by relatives; assisted units are included if the respondent knows the nonsubsidized rent.

2002 Area Rent Surveys: HUD-Sponsored Random Digit Dialing Surveys

State	FMR Area	Date of Survey	Two-Bedroom Gross Rents, All Renters			Cases
			25th Percentile (1st Quartile)	50th Percentile (Median)	75th Percentile (3rd Quartile)
AL	Birmingham, AL MSA	Aug-02	$453	$561	$692	360
CA	Bellflower/Paramount	Jul-02	$744	$846	$960	89
CA	East Valley	Jul-02	$821	$957	$1,209	58
CA	Fresno, CA MSA	Jul-02	$503	$575	$665	390
CA	Glendale	Jul-02	$858	$993	$1,157	79
CA	Glendora/Azusa	Jul-02	$775	$870	$975	109
CA	Hollywood	Jul-02	$864	$1,080	$1,498	62
CA	Long Beach	Jul-02	$924	$1,150	$1,475	87
CA	Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA PMSA	Jul-02	$750	$910	$1,261	590
CA	Norwalk	Aug-02	$775	$865	$1,046	75
CA	Pico Rivers	Aug-02	$749	$887	$958	68
CA	Riverside-San Bernardino, CA PMSA	Jul-02	$585	$717	$857	411
CA	Sacramento, CA PMSA	Jul-02	$753	$848	$962	340
CA	Salinas, CA MSA	Jul-02	$781	$942	$1,143	525
CA	San Francisco, CA PMSA	Jul-02	$1,211	$1,534	$1,930	326
CA	San Pedro	Jul-02	$745	$867	$1,033	92
CA	Santa Clarita/Saugus	Jul-02	$861	$1,081	$1,272	131
CA	South Bay	Jul-02	$1,164	$1,389	$1,700	107
CA	Torrance	Jul-02	$899	$1,025	$1,246	87
CA	Venice	Jul-02	$999	$1,410	$1,834	87
CA	Walnut/Diamond Bar	Jul-02	$836	$948	$1,059	80
CA	West Side	Jul-02	$1,069	$1,364	$1,607	90
CA	West Valley	Jul-02	$982	$1,271	$1,426	73
CT	Bridgeport, CT PMSA	Jul-02	$726	$855	$1,008	460
CT	Hartford, CT MSA	Jul-02	$671	$791	$898	373
CT	Worcester, MA	Sep-01	$611	$704	$860	370
DC	Washington, DC-MD-VA	Jul-02	$840	$1,023	$1,309	275
FL	Jacksonville, FL MSA	Jul-02	$580	$696	$794	267
FL	Orlando, FL	Sep-01	$642	$767	$887	275
FL	Tampa-St Petersburg-Clearwater, FL MSA	Feb-02	$555	$689	$813	268
IA	Des Moines, IA	Sep-01	$563	$631	$727	288
ID	Pocatello, ID MSA	Jul-02	$461	$501	$549	308
IL	St. Louis MO-IL MSA	Jul-02	$524	$616	$732	328
IN	Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN	Feb-02	$534	$642	$775	299
MA	Brockton, MA PMSA	Jul-02	$825	$941	$1,076	414
MA	Brookline, MA	Sep-01	$1,506	$1,801	$2,056	39
MA	Lawrence, MA-NH PMSA	Jul-02	$758	$899	$1,034	419
MA	Lowell, MA-NH PMSA	Jul-02	$828	$964	$1,111	461
MD	Baltimore, MD PMSA	Mar-02	$691	$817	$975	327
MN	Rochester, MN MSA	Jul-02	$618	$698	$795	244
NC	Norfolk-Virginia Beach- Newport News, VA-NC	Feb-02	$595	$698	$777	336
NC	Rocky Mount, NC	Jul-02	$393	$468	$562	497
NJ	Bergen-Passaic, NJ PMSA	Mar-02	$804	$950	$1,092	407
NJ	Jersey City, NJ PMSA	Feb-02	$750	$888	$1,203	410
NJ	Middlesex-Somerset-Hunterdon, NJ PMSA	Jul-02	$941	$1,072	$1,253	393
NJ	Monmouth-Ocean, NJ PMSA	Mar-02	$794	$913	$1,037	427
NY	Rochester, NY MSA	Mar-02	$561	$669	$776	300
OK	Oklahoma City, OK MSA	Jul-02	$444	$527	$623	330
OR	Eugene-Springfield, OR MSA	Jul-02	$598	$672	$765	316
PA	Philadelphia, PA PMSA	Jul-02	$698	$840	$1,000	337
PA	Pittsburgh, PA PMSA	Jul-02	$523	$615	$725	403
PA	Scranton, PA	Sep-01	$454	$525	$600	368
TX	El Paso, TX	Sep-01	$456	$548	$653	318
TX	Houston, TX PMSA	Feb-02	$579	$700	$843	261
VA	Richmond, VA	Sep-01	$594	$708	$818	334
WA	Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA	Feb-02	$750	$891	$1,021	276
WA	Tacoma, WA	Jul-02	$622	$695	$796	338

HUD also conducted longitudinal surveys to measure the previous year’s changes in median rents for metropolitan and nonmetropolitan FMR areas in each HUD region. These rent-change factors are used in HUD programs to adjust rents for units currently under contract. The metropolitan surveys exclude metropolitan areas covered by separate Consumer Price Index surveys. The 10 regions surveyed are almost the same as the 9 census divisions, except that the Alaska-Idaho-Oregon-Washington region is treated separately from the rest of the Pacific census division.