New Rochelle Rent Report: June 2026

Welcome to the Apartment List June 2026 Rent Report for New Rochelle, NY. Currently, the overall median rent in the city stands at $2,156, roughly the same as last month. Prices and are now up 0.9% year-over-year. Read on to learn more about what’s been happening in the New Rochelle rental market and how it compares to trends throughout the broader New York metro area and the nation as a whole.

The median rent in New Rochelle rose by 0.4% over the course of May, and has now increased by a total of 0.9% over the past 12 months. New Rochelle’s rent growth over the past year has has fallen behind the state average (2.4%) but has outpaced the national average (-1.5%).

Five months into the year, rents in New Rochelle have risen 3.8%. 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 increased 1.6%.

If we expand our view to the wider New York metro area, the median rent is $2,311 meaning that the median price in New Rochelle ($2,156) is 6.7% lower than the price across the metro as a whole. Metro-wide annual rent growth stands at 1.4%, above the rate of rent growth within just the city.

The table below shows the latest rent stats for 12 cities in the New York metro area that are included in our database. Among them, New York City is currently the most expensive, with a median rent of $2,521. Newark is the metro’s most affordable city, with a median rent of $1,680. The metro's fastest annual rent growth is occurring in White Plains (4.7%) while the slowest is in Newark (-2.7%).

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