Cost of living in Berks County
Simple answer
A 2-bedroom fair-market rent is $1,418 a month.
That HUD number covers Berks County, Pennsylvania, from October 2026 through September 2027. Towns in the county can still have different rents on the ground.
- Studio
- $978
- 1 bed
- $1,114
- 2 bed
- $1,418
- 3 bed
- $1,744
- 4 bed
- $1,877
This county is in the Reading, PA area. BEA's 2024 price index there is 97.1 (U.S. = 100).
SNAP income limit in Pennsylvania · Medicaid eligibility
Towns in this county
- Reading · 95,242 people
- Wyomissing · 11,172 people
- Blandon · 7,357 people
- Shillington · 5,492 people
- Pennside · 5,407 people
- Whitfield · 5,226 people
- Birdsboro · 5,116 people
- Lorane · 4,601 people
- Reiffton · 4,575 people
- West Reading · 4,562 people
- Amity Gardens · 4,499 people
- Hamburg · 4,456 people
- Boyertown · 4,287 people
- Laureldale · 4,284 people
- Sinking Spring · 4,281 people
- Kutztown University · 4,182 people
- Kutztown · 4,180 people
- Fleetwood · 4,064 people
- Jacksonwald · 3,894 people
- Riverview Park · 3,619 people
- West Wyomissing · 3,289 people
- Mount Penn · 3,244 people
- Kenhorst · 3,009 people
- Mohnton · 2,922 people
- Womelsdorf · 2,904 people
- Hyde Park · 2,846 people
- Wernersville · 2,786 people
- Robesonia · 2,261 people
- Topton · 2,215 people
- Leesport · 2,166 people
- Temple · 2,135 people
- Grill · 1,903 people
- West Hamburg · 1,896 people
- South Temple · 1,882 people
- St. Lawrence · 1,851 people
- Lincoln Park · 1,801 people
- Flying Hills · 1,738 people
- Fox Chase · 1,575 people
- Hereford · 1,452 people
- New Berlinville · 1,432 people
- Shoemakersville · 1,394 people
- West Lawn · 1,384 people
- Morgantown · 1,381 people
- Springmont · 1,319 people
- Muhlenberg Park · 1,259 people
- Colony Park · 1,175 people
- Bally · 1,161 people
- Oley · 1,153 people