Which is the cheapest town to rent a 3-room HDB flat in Singapore?

Woodlands has the lowest median rent for a 3-room HDB flat, about $2,500 per month, with most rentals between $2,300–$2,700. Figures come from data.gov.sg approved rentals over the past year.

How much does it cost to rent a 3-room HDB flat in Singapore?

The typical 3-room HDB flat rents for about $2,800 per month, with the middle half of leases between $2,600–$3,000. Cheaper towns sit below that, central and mature towns above it.

Why does the same flat type rent for different amounts?

Rent tracks location, remaining lease, size, and condition. A 3-room flat near an MRT interchange or in a central town commands more than one in an outlying town. The range shown (25th to 75th percentile) is the spread you should actually expect, not a single fixed price.

Cheapest towns to rent a 3-Room HDB flat

26 towns ranked · Median rent, 3-room · Updated monthly from data.gov.sg

The cheapest towns to rent a 3-room HDB flat are Woodlands, Bukit Panjang, Choa Chu Kang, where the median rent is about $2,500 per month (typically $2,300–$2,700). The most expensive is Central Area at around $3,200. Ranked across 26 towns with enough recent 3-room rentals.

Towns ranked by 3-room rent, cheapest first

Median monthly rent for a 3-room flat, with the typical range (the middle half of leases). Only towns with at least 10 recent 3-room rentals are ranked. Tap a town for the full breakdown.

#	Town	Median rent	Rentals
1	Woodlands	$2,500/mo $2,300–$2,700	237
2	Bukit Panjang	$2,600/mo $2,450–$2,750	139
3	Choa Chu Kang	$2,600/mo $2,400–$2,800	89
4	Jurong West	$2,700/mo $2,400–$2,900	542
5	Yishun	$2,700/mo $2,500–$2,800	735
6	Hougang	$2,700/mo $2,500–$2,900	538
7	Bukit Batok	$2,700/mo $2,500–$2,900	607
8	Pasir Ris	$2,750/mo $2,150–$3,000	30
9	Bedok	$2,800/mo $2,500–$2,950	1,149
10	Serangoon	$2,800/mo $2,500–$3,000	310
11	Geylang	$2,800/mo $2,500–$3,050	610
12	Sembawang	$2,800/mo $2,600–$2,900	36
13	Ang Mo Kio	$2,800/mo $2,600–$3,000	1,388
14	Jurong East	$2,800/mo $2,500–$3,000	377
15	Tampines	$2,850/mo $2,700–$3,000	745
16	Punggol	$2,850/mo $2,750–$3,000	179
17	Sengkang	$2,850/mo $2,700–$3,000	133
18	Toa Payoh	$2,900/mo $2,700–$3,100	961
19	Queenstown	$3,000/mo $2,800–$3,300	1,008
20	Bukit Merah	$3,000/mo $2,800–$3,300	993
21	Clementi	$3,000/mo $2,800–$3,200	820
22	Kallang/Whampoa	$3,000/mo $2,600–$3,250	778
23	Marine Parade	$3,000/mo $2,800–$3,200	232
24	Bishan	$3,000/mo $2,800–$3,100	179
25	Bukit Timah	$3,100/mo $2,850–$3,300	46
26	Central Area	$3,200/mo $3,000–$3,500	358

Rents are the median of approved HDB rentals over the past year, owner-declared and unverified, updated monthly. The typical range is the 25th to 75th percentile, the spread most renters actually pay. Your rent depends on the exact block, floor, lease, and condition.

Source: HDB Renting Out of Flats, data.gov.sg (Singapore Open Data Licence). Cite as: CheckHowMuch, "Cheapest Towns to Rent a 3-Room HDB Flat (2026)", https://checkhowmuch.sg/rent/cheapest/3-room/.

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Where 3-room HDB flats rent for the least

A 3-room HDB flat is cheapest to rent in Woodlands, at a median $2,500 a month, and dearest in Central Area at about $3,200. Rent tracks location and remaining lease more than anything else: outlying and older towns rent for less, central and newer towns for more. Across towns, a 3-room flat typically rents for $2,800 a month, with most leases between $2,600–$3,000. The range matters more than the median when you are budgeting, because two flats of the same type in the same town can still rent hundreds of dollars apart. All figures come from Singapore's data.gov.sg open data and are updated monthly.