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Average Rent in Miami-Dade, Florida

By the AverageRentCost Editorial Team · Last updated: October 2026

The FY2027 Fair Market Rent for a 2-bedroom home in Miami-Dade is $2,564 a month, on HUD's gross-rent scale that includes utilities. Miami-Dade sits in the Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, FL HUD Metro FMR Area, and its figures place it #1 among the 67 county rent listings published for Florida — $1,090 (74%) above the Florida county median. With a 2024 population of about 2,738,356, it is one of the rental markets we track in depth: below is the full bedroom-by-bedroom table, the income each size implies under the 30% rule, and how the county compares with its state and the country.

FY2027 Fair Market Rents in Miami-Dade

The gaps between sizes tell you how this market prices space. In Miami-Dade, stepping up from an efficiency to a one-bedroom adds $168 a month; stepping up from a one-bedroom to a two-bedroom adds $443 a month; and stepping up from a two-bedroom to a three-bedroom adds $713 a month. Families feel those steps directly, because voucher size standards and the 30% math both key off the bedroom count: a household approved for a 2-bedroom voucher that rents a 3-bedroom pays the difference itself unless the unit still passes the agency's rent-reasonableness test.

The 30% rule in Miami-Dade

Housing is considered affordable when gross rent takes no more than 30% of gross household income. At the FY2027 2-bedroom FMR of $2,564, that means an income of about $102,560 a year — $30,768 of rent spread over twelve months. A 1-bedroom at $2,121 fits an income of $84,840, while a family-sized 4-bedroom at $3,749 needs $149,960. Remember that FMRs are gross rents: if a lease leaves utilities in the tenant's name, the housing agency applies a utility allowance so the combined cost is what gets compared with the payment standard. For workers, the 2-bedroom figure works out to about $49 an hour at full-time hours — a useful yardstick when weighing a job offer against local rent.

How Miami-Dade, Florida compares

Against its own state, Miami-Dade's 2-bedroom FMR sits above the statewide ACS median gross rent of $1,812, and $1,090 (74%) above the Florida county median. Against the country as a whole it is $1,546 above the national median area figure of $1,018. The state's priciest county listing is Miami-Dade at $2,564 and its least expensive is Calhoun at $953, so Miami-Dade sits near the top of the Florida range. The full county-by-county table is on the Florida average rent page.

Vouchers and Fair Market Rents in Miami-Dade

This is a metropolitan rent area. In a small number of the largest metro areas HUD also publishes Small Area FMRs by ZIP code, which housing agencies in those areas must or may use for vouchers; the figures here are the standard area-wide schedule. For Housing Choice Voucher holders, the number that matters day to day is the payment standard: the local housing agency sets it between 90% and 110% of the FMR for each unit size, and the subsidy is calculated from the lower of that standard or the actual gross rent. An FMR is not a rent control and not a quote — homes in Miami-Dade lease both above and below these figures — but it is the benchmark every voucher lease is tested against, and a good neutral summary of where the modest end of this market sits.

Miami-Dade rent questions

Sources: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents FY2027 (county-level data file, effective October 1, 2026), huduser.gov; U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2024 1-year estimates, table B25031 (median gross rent), census.gov. Last verified: October 2026.