Midwest Leads the Pack of Best Rental Cities in America

A new survey of the best cities in the United States for renters places multiple metro areas in the Midwest at the top of the pack.

WalletHub’s 2021 “Best & Worst Places to Rent in America” puts Sioux Falls, S.D., Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Overland Park, Kan., at the top of its list.

Fargo, N.D., and Lincoln, Neb., take the next spots; it’s only at the sixth spot on the list—Columbia, Md.— that a non-midwestern state appears.

The surveyors in compiling the list “compared more than 180 rental markets based on 22 key measures of rental attractiveness and quality of life.”