What India actually pays in rent right now — 8,500+ reports, 16 cities

Listing sites show asking prices. Renters know the truth is what you actually pay. On MyBharat, thousands of renters have now shared exactly that — anonymously, pin by pin. Here is the first honest cross-city read.

The headline numbers (August 2026)

• Bengaluru: ₹34,172 median — across 6,213 first-hand reports, the deepest rent dataset in India right now.
• Mumbai: ₹42,773 — the priciest map we track. Powai reports a ₹59,500 median; Andheri West ₹61,000.
• Delhi: ₹37,188 — Lajpat Nagar reports run ₹49,000 while Mayur Vihar sits at ₹27,000.
• Hyderabad: ₹35,375 — Banjara Hills (₹60,000) and the IT corridors (Gachibowli ₹31,000) live in different worlds.
• Pune: ₹28,459 — Hinjawadi ₹28,000, Baner ₹33,000, Kothrud ₹23,500.
• Chennai: ₹26,912 — Adyar ₹34,000 to OMR Perungudi ₹21,000.
• Kolkata: ₹16,750 — the most affordable metro on the map, by a distance.

Why medians, not averages

One ₹2,00,000 pentagon in a sample drags an average up and lies to you. The median is the rent where half the renters pay less and half pay more. Every figure on MyBharat is a median over first-hand reports from the last 180 days, and every figure shows how many reports stand behind it. If a "median" doesn't show you its count, be suspicious.

The spread inside one city

Bengaluru's ₹34,172 median hides a ₹13,000-to-₹70,000+ reality: a 1BHK on the city's edge reports under ₹15,000 while a 3BHK in a gated Whitefield society runs ₹55,000+. That's why every society page on MyBharat shows the p25–p75 range — the band where the middle half of renters actually land — not just a single number.

See it yourself

Open the rent map, drop into any city, and tap a pin. Every number in this article is a live pin you can verify — that's the point. And if your rent isn't on the map yet, add it — it takes 30 seconds and it's anonymous.