Salt Lake City Rent Report: July 2026

Welcome to the Apartment List July 2026 Rent Report for Salt Lake City, UT. Currently, the overall median rent in the city stands at $1,257, roughly the same as last month. Prices are now down 2.6% year-over-year. Read on to learn more about what’s been happening in the Salt Lake City rental market and how it compares to trends throughout the broader Salt Lake City metro area and the nation as a whole.

The median rent in Salt Lake City fell by 0.0% over the course of June, and has now decreased by a total of 2.6% over the past 12 months. Salt Lake City’s rent growth over the past year has has fallen behind both the state (-1.6%) and national averages (-1.2%).

Six months into the year, rents in Salt Lake City have risen 1.9%. This is a slower rate of growth compared to what the city was experiencing at this point last year: from January to June 2025 rents had increased 2.7%.

If we expand our view to the wider Salt Lake City metro area, the median rent is $1,450 meaning that the median price in Salt Lake City proper ($1,257) is 13.3% lower than the price across the metro as a whole. Metro-wide annual rent growth stands at -1.9%, above the rate of rent growth within just the city.

The table below shows the latest rent stats for 11 cities in the Salt Lake City metro area that are included in our database. Among them, Draper is currently the most expensive, with a median rent of $1,974. South Salt Lake is the metro’s most affordable city, with a median rent of $1,208. The metro's fastest annual rent growth is occurring in Draper (4.6%) while the slowest is in West Valley City (-4.4%).

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