Cost of living in Dauphin County
Simple answer
A 2-bedroom fair-market rent is $1,598 a month.
That HUD number covers Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, from October 2026 through September 2027. Towns in the county can still have different rents on the ground.
- Studio
- $1,166
- 1 bed
- $1,285
- 2 bed
- $1,598
- 3 bed
- $2,055
- 4 bed
- $2,100
This county is in the Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA area. BEA's 2024 price index there is 98.7 (U.S. = 100).
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Towns in this county
- Harrisburg · 50,287 people
- Colonial Park · 18,032 people
- Hershey · 14,242 people
- Progress · 11,017 people
- Middletown · 9,632 people
- Linglestown · 6,957 people
- Rutherford · 6,890 people
- Steelton · 6,296 people
- Lawnton · 4,765 people
- Skyline View · 4,704 people
- Hummelstown · 4,527 people
- Paxtonia · 4,074 people
- Penbrook · 3,266 people
- Highspire · 2,732 people
- Marysville · 2,681 people
- Millersburg · 2,531 people
- Bressler · 2,060 people
- Lykens · 1,878 people
- Paxtang · 1,662 people
- Palmdale · 1,542 people
- Elizabethville · 1,350 people
- Williamstown · 1,345 people
- Enhaut · 1,197 people