Rent is not flat across the year. Summer is moving season, so demand and asking
rents peak; winter is when landlords have empty units and less leverage. This
measures how large that swing actually is where you are looking, and whether it is
big enough to be worth planning around.
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Rent through the calendar year
How much each month costs relative to that year's own average, after the long-term
trend is removed. Bars below the line are months when rent runs cheaper than the
year's average; bars above it are the expensive months.
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The last six years
Actual monthly rent, not seasonally adjusted. The seasonal wiggle above rides on
top of this trend, and in most places the trend is much larger than the wiggle.
That is the honest headline of this page.
Where timing matters most
Counties with the largest swing between their cheapest and dearest month. A big
swing usually means a market dominated by one moving season: a university town, or
somewhere with a short summer.