New Orleans Rent Report: June 2026

Welcome to the Apartment List June 2026 Rent Report for New Orleans, LA. Currently, the overall median rent in the city stands at $1,211, after rising 0.6% last month. Prices remain down 1.8% year-over-year. Read on to learn more about what’s been happening in the New Orleans rental market and how it compares to trends throughout the nation as a whole.

The median rent in New Orleans rose by 0.6% over the course of May, and has now decreased by a total of 1.8% over the past 12 months. New Orleans’s rent growth over the past year has has fallen behind the state average (0.8%) and is similar to the national average (-1.5%).

Five months into the year, rents in New Orleans have risen 2.9%. This is a faster rate of growth compared to what the city was experiencing at this point last year: from January to May 2025 rents had decreased 1.0%.

New Orleans rents went up 0.6% in the past month, compared to the national rate of 0.5%. Among the nation's 100 largest cities, this ranks #45. Similar monthly rent growth took place in Columbus, OH (0.6%) and Jacksonville, FL (0.6%).

Citywide, the median rent currently stands at $1,018 for a 1-bedroom apartment and $1,261 for a 2-bedroom. Across all bedroom sizes (ie, the entire rental market), the median rent is $1,211. That ranks #77 in the nation, among the country's 100 largest cities.

For comparison, the median rent across the nation as a whole is $1,211 for a 1-bedroom, $1,365 for a 2-bedroom, and $1,379 overall. The median rent in New Orleans is 12.2% lower than the national, and is similar to the prices you would find in Glendale, AZ ($1,211) and Lexington, KY ($1,210).

Apartment List is committed to the accuracy and transparency of our rent estimates. We begin with reliable median rent statistics from the Census Bureau, then extrapolate them forward to the current month using a growth rate calculated from our listing data. In doing so, we use a same-unit analysis similar to Case-Shiller’s approach, capturing apartment transactions over time to provide an accurate picture of rent growth in cities across the country. Our approach corrects for the sample bias inherent in other private sources, producing results that are much closer to statistics published by the Census Bureau and HUD. For more details, please see the Apartment List Rent Estimate Methodology.

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