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New York rent report: October 2026

A 1 bedroom in New York lists for a median $4,681 a month, from 1,469 listed apartments in 955 buildings (listings collected Oct 1–4, 2026). A 2 bedroom lists for $4,960 (1,315 listings). A 1 bedroom lists for a median $3,350 in Jersey City and $2,300 in Newark. Here's what New York's listings say.

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Published · corrected · listings collected Oct 1–4, 2026 · method · chart and data

Corrected Oct 13, 2026: Single rooms listed as 3- and 4-bedroom units (under 360 sq ft) were taken out, a city whose listings sit mostly in one ZIP code or one building is no longer shown, and the dates now say when the listings were collected rather than a 45-day window.

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What a New York apartment lists for.

1 bedroom
$4,681 /momedian of 1,469 listings in 955 buildings
2 bedrooms
$4,960 /momedian of 1,315 listings in 993 buildings

Medians of the asking rents on 4,557 apartments listed in 2,568 New York buildings. Half ask more, half ask less. They are what buildings are asking for a unit today, not what anyone signed.

New York, city by city.

Median asking rent by bedroom count for each principal city with a rent page, with the number of listings in brackets. A dash means fewer than 10 listings, or listings from one building. Apartment size and age differ from one city to the next, and a small sample moves more than a large one, so read a figure with its count.

CityListingsBuildingsStudio1 bedroom2 bedrooms3 bedrooms
New York, NY4,5572,568$4,050 (618)$4,681 (1,469)$4,960 (1,315)$3,753 (808)
Jersey City, NJ2,803652$2,893 (497)$3,350 (1,107)$4,305 (849)$3,675 (308)
Newark, NJ820368$2,102 (74)$2,300 (273)$2,500 (249)$2,448 (188)

Note: 3-bedroom listings come mostly from Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx; 1-bedrooms mostly from Manhattan, so the 3-bedroom median is not comparable with the 1-bedroom.

Note: In Jersey City, the 3-bedroom median is below the 2-bedroom median: each size's median comes from its own set of buildings and neighborhoods, so compare a figure with others of the same size, not across sizes.

Note: In Newark, the 3-bedroom median is below the 2-bedroom median: each size's median comes from its own set of buildings and neighborhoods, so compare a figure with others of the same size, not across sizes.

Neighborhood medians are not in this report: the New York rent pages are built by city, so there is no neighborhood table yet. Each city name above links to its rent page.

Since the last report.

This is the first New York report, so there is nothing to compare it with yet. The rent data is updated every two weeks and each report is a snapshot of one refresh, so a comparison starts with the report built from the next one.

How we got these numbers, and their limits.

  • Asking rents, not signed leases. Apartments listed on Apartments.com and Zillow, listings collected Oct 1–4, 2026. Move-in specials aren't taken off.
  • Each apartment counts once, even when both sites list it. The dates above are the days these listings were collected.
  • Market-rate apartments only. Whole houses, furnished units, single rooms let on their own and income-restricted units whose listing says so are left out.
  • Every figure comes from two or more buildings and ten or more listings, and no building is named. A city is shown only when its 1 bedroom listings are spread out: no ZIP code holds more than half of them and no building more than a quarter.
  • A city is every listing with that city's address. There is no metro-wide figure here, and no neighborhood figure.
  • Listings lean toward large, professionally managed buildings, which list many units at once. Small landlords are under-represented.
  • The full method.

Chart and data for this report.

Free to publish with a credit to PiggyRent (piggyrent.com). The chart carries its own sample size and dates. Questions, or a cut of the data we haven't published: hello@piggyrent.com.

Bar chart: median asking rent for a 1 and 2 bedroom in New York ($4,681 and $4,960), Jersey City ($3,350 and $4,305), Newark ($2,300 and $2,500).
  • new-york-1br-2br.png Chart: 1 and 2 bedroom median asking rent in New York's principal cities
  • new-york-cities.csv Data: New York's principal cities by bedroom count, with listing and building counts
  • method.txt The method and its limits, as plain text

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  <figcaption>Median asking rent, listings collected Oct 1–4, 2026. Asking rents, not signed leases. Source: <a href="https://piggyrent.com/rent/reports/new-york-2026-10">PiggyRent</a>.</figcaption>
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