Alachua County, FL

2025 Fair Market Rents

Tags: 2025 Gainesville, FL HUD Metro FMR Area

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The top four largest cities in Alachua County are Gainesville, Newberry, Alachua, and High Springs. Fair Market Rents on this page may apply depending on whether the county uses SAFMRs or county level FMRs. Cities in multiple SAFMR areas will have different SAFMRS based on ZIP code.

What type of FMR does Alachua County use?

Small Area Fair Market Rents were created by the HUD for this county/Metro Fmr Area however Alachua County is not required to use Small Area FMRs by the HUD. It is at the discretion of the local Housing Authority to determine if SAFMRs or 40th percentile FMRs are used.

To learn more about the criteria the HUD uses to determine if a Metro FMR Area requires Small Area Fair Market Rents click here.

How does Alachua County compare?

Alachua County ($1,583) has a 9.5% higher FMR for 2-Bedroom housing than the average of Florida ($1,446) and therefore a higher gross rent.

Alachua County is rank 29th out of 67 counties. This means the FMRs, or in other words, the gross rent is higher than 38 other counties. Alachua County is the 29th most expensive county in terms of FMRs.

Rent Tables Alachua County, FL

Fair Market Rent (40th Percentile)

$1,176
studio
$1,308
1-Bedroom
$1,583
2-Bedroom
$2,016
3-Bedroom
$2,099
4-Bedroom

Median Rent (50th Percentile)

$1,277
studio
$1,420
1-Bedroom
$1,718
2-Bedroom
$2,188
3-Bedroom
$2,278
4-Bedroom

Small Market Areas (By Zip Code)

The 90% and 110% SAFMRs represent the minimum and maximum payment standards that can be set by the local Public Housing Authority under regular conditions. The payment standard is the actual value used in Section 8. For more on payment standards click here.

FMRs and SAFMRs are set by the HUD. The local PHA takes these FMR/SAFMR values and may decide to use any value that is within +-10% of the FMR/SAFMR as the payment standard for the areas under their jurisdiction.

For a more in-depth explaination return to the overview page.

Fair Market Rents on this page apply to the following cities in Alachua County, Florida: Gainesville, Newberry, Alachua, High Springs, Hawthorne, Archer, Melrose, Micanopy, Waldo, Hampton, Brooker, La Crosse, Earleton, Evinston, Island Grove, and Lochloosa.

These Fair Market Rents also apply to the following ZIP codes in Alachua County, Florida: 32608, 32605, 32607, 32606, 32609, 32653, 32669, 32615, 32641, 32601, 32643, 32640, 32618, 32666, 32667, 32603, 32694, 32044, 32614, and 32622.

Alachua County, FL is considered part of the following metro FMR area: GAINESVILLE, FL HUD METRO FMR AREA.

Other counties in the same metro FMR area are: Gilchrist County, FL.

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Fair Market Rents are published by the Department of Housing And Urban Development.