Fair market rent in Lynn by bedroom size (FY2026)

HUD's fiscal-year 2026 Fair Market Rents are the baseline housing-voucher programs use in Lynn — and the only official bedroom-by-bedroom rent figures published for this area.

FY2026 fair market rent, studio to 4 bedrooms

HUD publishes one figure for the whole Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH HUD Metro FMR Area — there is no official ZIP-level breakdown for Lynn in this dataset, so the numbers below describe the metro area, not Lynn alone.

All amounts are monthly gross rent — rent plus tenant-paid utilities — for the Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH HUD Metro FMR Area.

How the FMR compares to Lynn's market rate

Today's Lynn market average is $2,356/month (all unit sizes blended), while the 2-bedroom FMR is $2,941. The voucher standard here is pegged to rents across the whole Boston-Cambridge-Quincy area — which run higher than Lynn's own market. The practical upshot: a voucher set against the metro standard tends to stretch further in Lynn than in the metro's pricier towns. That's a comparison of two different measures (the FMR includes utilities and is fixed for the fiscal year; the market average blends all unit sizes and moves monthly), so treat it as direction, not a precise dollar gap.

What a fair market rent actually is

• It's a standard, not a price. HUD estimates the 40th-percentile gross rent (rent + utilities) for recent movers, once per federal fiscal year. Nothing here is a listing or a promise of what you'll find.
• It's not exactly what Section 8 pays. Your local housing authority sets its payment standard between roughly 90% and 110% of these figures, and what a voucher covers also depends on household income. Always confirm the current payment standard with the housing authority.
• It's not a rent cap. Landlords can ask more; the FMR only governs what assistance programs use as a baseline.

Source & caveats

All FMR figures come from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of Policy Development and Research — the public Fair Market Rents dataset, fiscal year 2026, for the Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH HUD Metro FMR Area. This site is not affiliated with HUD or any housing authority. Market-rate figures elsewhere on the page come from Zillow's ZORI index and measure something different — see the methodology for how the sources fit together, and the Lynn rent overview for the current market picture.