San Bruno Rent Report: November 2024

Welcome to the Apartment List November 2024 Rent Report for San Bruno, CA. Currently, the overall median rent in the city stands at $2,769, roughly the same as last month. Prices and are now up 3.5% year-over-year. Read on to learn more about what’s been happening in the San Bruno rental market and how it compares to trends throughout the broader San Francisco metro area and the nation as a whole.

San Bruno rents are flat month-over-month and up 3.5% year-over-year

The median rent in San Bruno rose by 0.3% over the course of October, and has now increased by a total of 3.5% over the past 12 months. San Bruno’s rent growth over the past year has has outpaced both state (-0.2%) and national (-0.7%) averages.

San Bruno rent growth in 2024 pacing above last year

Ten months into the year, rents in San Bruno have risen 0.5%. This is a faster rate of growth compared to what the city was experiencing at this point last year: from January to October 2023 rents had decreased 1.1%.

San Bruno rents are 8.9% higher than the metro-wide median

If we expand our view to the wider San Francisco metro area, the median rent is $2,542 meaning that the median price in San Bruno ($2,769) is 8.9% greater than the price across the metro as a whole. Metro-wide annual rent growth stands at -0.4%, below the rate of rent growth within just the city.

The table below shows the latest rent stats for 18 cities in the San Francisco metro area that are included in our database. Among them, San Mateo is currently the most expensive, with a median rent of $3,227. Berkeley is the metro’s most affordable city, with a median rent of $1,880. The metro's fastest annual rent growth is occurring in Redwood City (4.8%) while the slowest is in Berkeley (-7.8%).

You can also use the map below to explore the latest rent trends in the San Francisco metropolitan area.

Methodology

Apartment List is committed to the accuracy and transparency of our rent estimates. We begin with reliable median rent statistics from the Census Bureau, then extrapolate them forward to the current month using a growth rate calculated from our listing data. In doing so, we use a same-unit analysis similar to Case-Shiller’s approach, capturing apartment transactions over time to provide an accurate picture of rent growth in cities across the country. Our approach corrects for the sample bias inherent in other private sources, producing results that are much closer to statistics published by the Census Bureau and HUD. For more details, please see the Apartment List Rent Estimate Methodology.

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