{"id":252571,"date":"2026-04-16T13:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/252571\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T13:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:14:07","slug":"which-texas-cities-have-the-cheapest-rent-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/252571\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Texas cities have the cheapest rent in 2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While overall trends are consistent across the U.S., location influences rent affordability. In a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/cities-with-the-most-affordable-rent\/147756\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new analysis<\/a> by WalletHub, the median annual gross rent was compared with the median household income in over 180 cities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the most affordable cities for renters, the median cost of rent is as low as 15% of the median income, compared to nearly 34% in the most expensive cities,\u201d\u00a0WalletHub analyst Chip Lupo says. \u201cThis gives people in the least expensive cities a clear financial advantage; the money they save on rent could go toward their emergency fund or savings for future home ownership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Where did your Texas city land regarding rent affordability? Here&#8217;s what the study found.<\/p>\n<p>WalletHub calculated rent&#8217;s share of income in each city by dividing the median annual gross rent by the median annual household income. A total of 16 Texas cities were analyzed, with the rent averaging 22.785% of income.<\/p>\n<p>Laredo had the state&#8217;s smallest rent burden (19.34%), while Garland had the largest (25.8%). Dallas and Houston&#8217;s rent burdens were bigger than Austin and El Paso&#8217;s, while Fort Worth&#8217;s landed closest to the average.<\/p>\n<p>*calculated with the median annual gross rent as a percentage of median annual household income<\/p>\n<p>WalletHub offers these suggestions for reducing your rent, regardless of where you live:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While overall trends are consistent across the U.S., location influences rent affordability. In a\u00a0new analysis by WalletHub, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[918,27,29,28,81138,511],"class_list":{"0":"post-252571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-economy","9":"tag-texas","10":"tag-texas-headlines","11":"tag-texas-news","12":"tag-the-cost-of-living","13":"tag-wallethub"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}