Every Texas county, shaded by median monthly gross rent. Darker counties have higher rent. County borders are the U.S. Census Bureau cartographic boundary (cb_500k). Eight small counties have no published figure.
A typical Texas county sits at $928 a month in median gross rent, the midpoint of the 246 counties the Census published a figure for. That county midpoint is not a Texas figure: the statewide median is $1,339, because the large metros sit well above the middle county. Rockwall is the dearest, at $1,899 a month. Cottle is the cheapest published figure, at $323. Eight counties land at $1,500 or more, and 84 sit at $1,000 or more. Eight very small counties have no published median.
In short
$928typical county rentthe middle county, not an average
$1,899highest published rentRockwall County
$323lowest published rentCottle County
8counties at $1,500 or moreof 246 with a published figure
84counties at $1,000 or moreabout a third of those reporting
Figure 1
Median gross rent, all 246 counties reporting
Median gross rent · all 246 with a published figure, of 254 · ranked high to low
The complete ranking of every Texas county the Census published a median for. Rockwall leads at $1,899, then Collin ($1,792), Fort Bend ($1,770), Williamson ($1,720) and Travis ($1,669). Dallas sits at $1,469, Harris at $1,349 and Bexar at $1,290. The middle of the list is Somervell at $927 and Hill at $929. Fifty-six counties are under $800. Cottle is last among the published figures, at $323. Eight counties with no median are left off this ranking and shown as an em dash in the table.
Table 1
All counties
254 rows · 2 columns · sorted by median gross rent, high to low
The full dataset: all 254 Texas counties with median monthly gross rent, sorted from highest to lowest and re-sortable on either column. Use the filter box to jump to a county by name. The Census suppressed the figure for eight counties, and those cells show an em dash rather than a zero. Each figure is a median for that county alone, so the column cannot be averaged into a state figure; that would weight Loving County the same as Harris.
Median gross rent is contract rent plus estimated monthly utilities and fuels, if the renter pays them, for renter-occupied units paying cash rent. Figures are in 2023 dollars.
The Census suppressed the median for 8 counties (Borden, Glasscock, Kenedy, King, La Salle, Loving, McMullen and Terrell). Those cells are shown as an em dash and are excluded from the ranking.
A county median is the midpoint for that county, so county figures cannot be averaged to produce a state figure.
