Cost of living in Wayne County
Simple answer
A 2-bedroom fair-market rent is $1,459 a month.
That HUD number covers Wayne County, Michigan, from October 2026 through September 2027. Towns in the county can still have different rents on the ground.
- Studio
- $1,047
- 1 bed
- $1,167
- 2 bed
- $1,459
- 3 bed
- $1,777
- 4 bed
- $1,929
This county is in the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI area. BEA's 2024 price index there is 100.3 (U.S. = 100).
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Towns in this county
- Detroit · 638,530 people
- Dearborn · 107,423 people
- Livonia · 93,851 people
- Westland · 83,633 people
- Taylor · 62,081 people
- Dearborn Heights · 61,771 people
- Lincoln Park · 39,257 people
- Southgate · 29,366 people
- Allen Park · 27,925 people
- Hamtramck · 27,743 people
- Garden City · 26,739 people
- Inkster · 25,428 people
- Romulus · 24,831 people
- Wyandotte · 24,489 people
- Trenton · 18,125 people
- Wayne · 17,310 people
- Grosse Pointe Woods · 16,094 people
- Harper Woods · 15,116 people
- Woodhaven · 12,690 people
- Melvindale · 12,554 people
- Riverview · 12,186 people
- Grosse Pointe Park · 11,319 people
- Flat Rock · 10,340 people
- Plymouth · 9,214 people
- Ecorse · 9,064 people
- Highland Park · 8,628 people
- River Rouge · 7,008 people
- Northville · 6,069 people
- Gibraltar · 4,873 people
- Belleville · 3,910 people
- Rockwood · 3,161 people