NYC rent report - August 2026

The NYC rent report, August 2026

The citywide median 1-bedroom rent is $2,700/month as of August 2026, based on 89,290 active listings.
  • 229,284 listings sampled
  • Updated August 2026
  • Snapshot edition
The short answer

The median rent for a 1-bedroom apartment in New York City is $2,700/month as of August 2026, based on 89,290 active listings across the city. This report breaks that down by borough and bedroom count, and lists the 10 neighborhoods with the most available inventory this month.

Median rent by borough and bedroom count
AreaStudio1BR2BR3BRListings
NYC citywide$2,500$2,700$3,200$3,618229,284
Staten Island$1,250$1,950$2,550$2,90057
Bronx$1,862.5$2,088$2,721$3,4645,152
Queens$2,025$2,400$2,999$3,45030,751
Brooklyn$2,700$2,950$3,400$3,70095,178
Manhattan$3,500$4,390$5,800$7,067.598,146
Top 10 neighborhoods by inventory
  1. Upper East SideManhattan
    8,734 listings
  2. WilliamsburgBrooklyn
    8,203 listings
  3. Upper West SideManhattan
    7,370 listings
  4. Midtown EastManhattan
    6,822 listings
  5. BushwickBrooklyn
    5,764 listings
  6. Midtown WestManhattan
    5,533 listings
  7. East VillageManhattan
    5,502 listings
  8. Bedford-StuyvesantBrooklyn
    5,167 listings
  9. AstoriaQueens
    4,450 listings
  10. Hell's KitchenManhattan
    4,300 listings
Methodology

Medians reflect asking rents from a citywide sample of active NYC rental listings, grouped by neighborhood and bedroom count.

Each borough median is the median of that borough's neighborhood medians for the same bedroom count. The citywide median is the median across all neighborhood medians citywide.

The "as of August 2026" date reflects when this data was last synced, not the date this page was built. This edition is a snapshot - month-over-month change columns will appear once at least two months of historical snapshots exist.