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Where our rent data is dense enough to publish on

Tier-by-tier coverage map for our live asking-rent dataset. 8 deep-coverage cities (15+ properties, 30 days+ of daily snapshots), 59 moderate, 98 thin. Every research article links back here so readers can see exactly where our claims are statistically sound.

Updated Data refreshed May 1, 2026
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Every chart on this site is computed from real, refreshed daily, advertised rents on apartment leasing pages. There are 22,055 approved units across 1,819 properties in 165 cities and 35 states. But that headline obscures the asymmetry. Some cities are dense enough to publish neighborhood rankings on. Others have three properties and should never appear in a "city ranking" table. This page makes the split explicit. The oldest daily price snapshot in our database is from March 24, 2026.

The three coverage tiers

Every city in our dataset falls into one of three tiers based on property count and snapshot history depth. The thresholds are deliberately conservative.

Deep

8

cities with 15+ properties and 30 days+ of daily snapshots

Per-city rankings, neighborhood breakdowns, and trend charts only quote numbers from these.

Moderate

59

cities with 8 to 14 approved properties

Included in the national distribution. Not used for per-city rankings.

Thin

98

cities with fewer than 8 approved properties

Individual property listings only. Never appear as a "city" data point.

By state

States ranked by approved property count. The "deep cities" column is the count of cities in that state with deep coverage; this is what tells you whether per-city rankings inside the state are statistically sound.

State Properties Units Cities Deep cities
TX 454 7,503 27 4
CA 254 1,765 29 0
NC 121 1,723 9 2
AZ 117 1,127 10 0
FL 115 1,488 7 0
CO 99 1,479 7 1
TN 66 1,742 2 1
GA 59 901 3 0
WA 59 560 3 0
NV 56 736 5 0
VA 54 481 5 0
MN 51 432 3 0
UT 30 170 3 0
MO 29 242 2 0
OR 29 279 1 0
IA 26 53 17 0
IL 22 115 1 0
MA 21 89 1 0
KY 17 133 2 0
NE 15 63 2 0
PA 15 102 2 0
WI 14 239 2 0
OK 14 103 2 0
OH 13 53 3 0
NY 9 80 2 0
HI 9 67 1 0
NJ 8 44 5 0
MI 8 8 1 0
AL 7 43 1 0
IN 6 60 2 0
NM 5 16 1 0
LA 5 81 1 0
DC 5 35 1 0
KS 4 15 1 0
AK 3 28 1 0

Deep coverage cities

These are the cities where we will publish neighborhood-level breakdowns, per-bedroom rent comparisons, and trend charts that grow as more snapshot history accumulates. Every entry has at least 15 approved properties and at least 30 days of daily price snapshots.

City Properties Units Neighborhoods Snapshots since
Austin, TX 187 2,964 23 Mar 24, 2026
Denver, CO 89 1,404 11 Mar 28, 2026
Houston, TX 70 963 16 Mar 26, 2026
Dallas, TX 65 1,389 10 Mar 27, 2026
Nashville, TN 61 1,742 11 Mar 28, 2026
San Antonio, TX 39 640 14 Mar 28, 2026
Cary, NC 29 359 5 Mar 24, 2026
Morrisville, NC 25 296 4 Mar 24, 2026

Moderate coverage cities

These cities contribute to the national distribution but are not yet dense enough for per-city rankings. They will appear here until they cross the 15-property and 30 days-history thresholds.

City Properties Units Snapshots since
Atlanta, GA 57 889 Apr 3, 2026
Seattle, WA 50 482 Apr 5, 2026
Minneapolis, MN 38 350 Apr 4, 2026
Los Angeles, CA 36 476 Apr 10, 2026
Phoenix, AZ 33 342 Apr 3, 2026
Charlotte, NC 31 526 Apr 5, 2026
Portland, OR 29 279 Apr 9, 2026
Tampa, FL 26 320 Apr 4, 2026
Salt Lake City, UT 25 166 Apr 5, 2026
Las Vegas, NV 23 367 Apr 5, 2026
Chicago, IL 22 115 Apr 5, 2026
Kansas City, MO 22 184 Apr 5, 2026
Miami, FL 22 395 Apr 5, 2026
Orlando, FL 22 491 Apr 5, 2026
Tempe, AZ 22 198 Apr 3, 2026
Boston, MA 21 89 Apr 9, 2026
Scottsdale, AZ 21 261 Apr 3, 2026
Riverside, CA 20 58 Apr 13, 2026
Arlington, VA 19 220 Apr 5, 2026
Jacksonville, FL 19 165 Apr 14, 2026
San Diego, CA 18 182 Apr 11, 2026
Anaheim, CA 17 68 Apr 12, 2026
Oakland, CA 17 112 Apr 12, 2026
Sacramento, CA 16 88 Apr 11, 2026
Chula Vista, CA 15 16 Apr 13, 2026
Henderson, NV 15 302 Apr 22, 2026
Port St Lucie, FL 15 25 Apr 14, 2026
Fremont, CA 14 79 Apr 13, 2026
Raleigh, NC 14 236 Mar 30, 2026
San Jose, CA 14 8 Apr 11, 2026
Stockton, CA 14 46 Apr 13, 2026
Virginia Beach, VA 14 92 Apr 21, 2026
Katy, TX 13 145 Apr 10, 2026
Laredo, TX 12 81 Apr 15, 2026
Santa Ana, CA 12 149 Apr 12, 2026
St Paul, MN 12 68 Apr 17, 2026
Corpus Christi, TX 11 165 Apr 15, 2026
Irvine, CA 11 193 Apr 12, 2026
Long Beach, CA 11 76 Apr 12, 2026
Lexington, KY 10 46 Apr 18, 2026
Mesa, AZ 10 76 Apr 19, 2026
St Petersburg, FL 10 92 Apr 14, 2026
Arlington, TX 9 377 Apr 15, 2026
Glendale, AZ 9 67 Apr 20, 2026
Honolulu, HI 9 67 Apr 22, 2026
Madison, WI 9 202 Apr 19, 2026
Reno, NV 9 41 Apr 22, 2026
Richmond, TX 9 204 Apr 10, 2026
Tucson, AZ 9 48 Apr 19, 2026
Detroit, MI 8 8 Apr 18, 2026
Garland, TX 8 257 Apr 16, 2026
Gilbert, AZ 8 110 Apr 20, 2026
Oklahoma City, OK 8 66 Apr 17, 2026
Omaha, NE 8 51 Apr 21, 2026
Pittsburgh, PA 8 5 Apr 14, 2026
Richmond, VA 8 57 Apr 21, 2026
San Francisco, CA 8 84 Apr 13, 2026
Spokane, WA 8 66 Apr 24, 2026
Winston Salem, NC 8 77 Apr 23, 2026

Thin coverage cities

These cities have approved listings but fewer than 8 properties. They show up as individual apartment pages and on city landing pages but never get rolled up into a "city" data point in research articles. We surface them here because hiding them would misrepresent our footprint.

Show all 98 thin-coverage cities
City Properties Units
Bakersfield, CA 7 22
Chesapeake, VA 7 73
Durham, NC 7 104
Huntsville, AL 7 43
Irving, TX 7 148
Lincoln, NE 7 12
Louisville, KY 7 87
North Las Vegas, NV 7 19
Philadelphia, PA 7 97
St Louis, MO 7 58
Columbus, OH 6 6
Fresno, CA 6 49
Lubbock, TX 6 51
Norfolk, VA 6 39
Tulsa, OK 6 37
Albuquerque, NM 5 16
Brooklyn, NY 5 41
Cleveland, OH 5 44
Colorado Springs, CO 5 42
Greensboro, NC 5 95
Memphis, TN 5 0
Milwaukee, WI 5 37
New Orleans, LA 5 81
Washington, DC 5 35
Boone, IA 4 10
Buffalo, NY 4 39
Newark, NJ 4 11
South Salt Lake, UT 4 4
Wichita, KS 4 15
Anchorage, AK 3 28
Chandler, AZ 3 19
Fort Wayne, IN 3 2
Indianapolis, IN 3 58
Orange, CA 3 18
Osceola, IA 3 9
Union City, CA 3 1
Cincinnati, OH 2 3
Flower Mound, TX 2 16
Fort Worth, TX 2 9
Fullerton, CA 2 15
Grinnell, IA 2 2
Madrid, IA 2 4
Marshalltown, IA 2 3
Newton, IA 2 4
Plano, TX 2 11
Sparks, NV 2 7
Altoona, IA 1 1
Apex, NC 1 20
Aurora, CO 1 9
Bayonne, NJ 1 0
Bondurant, IA 1 1
Broomfield, CO 1 5
Burbank, CA 1 7
Campbell, CA 1 0
Castle Pines, CO 1 10
Cave Creek, AZ 1 6
Cedar Park, TX 1 9
Cherokee, IA 1 2
Corydon, IA 1 2
Duluth, GA 1 5
East Orange, NJ 1 11
El Paso, TX 1 0
Emeryville, CA 1 0
Falcon Heights, MN 1 14
Folsom, CA 1 4
Frisco, TX 1 6
Garden Grove, CA 1 0
Grand Terrace, CA 1 0
Grapevine, TX 1 6
Harrison, NJ 1 0
Huntsville, TX 1 4
Indianola, IA 1 2
Jersey City, NJ 1 22
Kingwood, TX 1 6
Knoxville, IA 1 3
Leander, TX 1 7
Lodi, CA 1 6
Lone Tree, CO 1 6
Mooresville, NC 1 10
National City, CA 1 1
Norcross, GA 1 7
Palm City, FL 1 0
Paradise Valley, AZ 1 0
Pella, IA 1 2
Perry, IA 1 1
Prairie City, IA 1 1
Richardson, TX 1 19
Rockwall, TX 1 4
Spring, TX 1 4
Sugar House, UT 1 0
Sugar Land, TX 1 5
Tacoma, WA 1 12
Tyler, TX 1 13
Urbandale, IA 1 2
West Hollywood, CA 1 7
West Sacramento, CA 1 0
Westminster, CO 1 3
Winterset, IA 1 4

How a city moves up a tier

A city moves up when two things happen: more apartment properties get added to the dataset, and the existing properties accumulate longer daily snapshot histories. Both happen automatically as the data pipeline runs each morning. There is no manual curation that promotes a city. For thin cities to become moderate they need to cross the 8-property threshold, and to become deep they need 15 properties plus a snapshot record older than 30 days.

If you cover a city you would like us to expand into, the fastest path is to run a search there. The pipeline picks up new properties from search activity and they enter the QA queue automatically.

Frequently asked questions

What does "deep coverage" mean?

A city is classified as deep coverage when it has at least 15 approved properties in the dataset and our oldest daily price snapshot for that city goes back at least 30 days. Per-city rent rankings, neighborhood breakdowns, and trend lines on this site only quote numbers from deep-coverage cities. Today there are 8.

Why does this matter?

Most "national rent reports" published by competitors aggregate without disclosing where their sample is sound and where it is thin. A national median calculated from one well-covered metro and a long tail of three-property cities is not a national median in any meaningful sense. We publish the breakdown so the reader can decide whether our numbers apply to their question.

How often does coverage update?

Every morning. New properties move from "thin" to "moderate" to "deep" as we add more units in their city and as our daily snapshot history grows.

Do you publish numbers for moderate or thin cities?

Moderate-coverage cities appear in national distribution charts but never in per-city rankings. Thin-coverage cities only ever appear as individual property listings, never as a "city" data point. The national rent figure on the homepage is computed across all approved properties, with a footnote disclosing the city distribution.

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