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Welcome to the Apartment List May 2025 Rent Report for Berkeley, CA. Currently, the overall median rent in the city stands at $2,019, after rising 1.3% last month. Prices and are now up 3.1% year-over-year. Read on to learn more about what’s been happening in the Berkeley rental market and how it compares to trends throughout the broader San Francisco metro area and the nation as a whole.
The median rent in Berkeley rose by 1.3% over the course of April, and has now increased by a total of 3.1% over the past 12 months. Berkeley’s rent growth over the past year has has outpaced both state (1.8%) and national (-0.3%) averages.
Four months into the year, rents in Berkeley have risen 5.9%. This is a faster rate of growth compared to what the city was experiencing at this point last year: from January to April 2024 rents had increased 0.2%.
If we expand our view to the wider San Francisco metro area, the median rent is $2,624 meaning that the median price in Berkeley ($2,019) is 23.1% lower than the price across the metro as a whole. Metro-wide annual rent growth stands at 3.9%, above the rate of rent growth within just the city.
The table below shows the latest rent stats for 20 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 $3,383. Oakland is the metro’s most affordable city, with a median rent of $2,006. The metro's fastest annual rent growth is occurring in San Francisco (7.9%) while the slowest is in Walnut Creek (-0.6%).
You can also use the map below to explore the latest rent trends in the San Francisco metropolitan area.
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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Welcome to the Apartment List May 2025 Rent Report for Berkeley, CA. Currently, the overall median rent in the city stands at $2,019, after rising 1.3% last month. Prices and are now up 3.1% year-over-year. Read on to learn more about what’s been happening in the Berkeley rental market and how it compares to trends throughout the broader San Francisco metro area and the nation as a whole.
Apartment List has released results for Berkeley from the second annual Apartment List Renter Satisfaction Survey. The survey, which drew on responses from over 30,000 renters, provides insight into what states and cities must do to meet the needs of the 105 million American renters nationwide.
“Renters in Berkeley are fairly well satisfied with their city,” says Andrew Woo, Director of Data Science at Apartment List. “They gave many categories above-average scores.”
Key findings in Berkeley include the following:
Hey, there, and welcome to the online headquarters for your Berkeley, California apartment hunting escapades!
First, though, let’s take a moment to answer some questions we know you must have about life in Berkeley
View Berkeley City GuideHey, there, and welcome to the online headquarters for your Berkeley, California apartment hunting escapades!
First, though, let’s take a moment to answer some questions we know you must have about life in Berkeley
The representation of ethnic minorities in Berkeley is higher than the national average. The eight main ethnic groups that make up the population of Berkeley are White (51.4%), Asian (18%), Hispanic Or Latino (12.8%), Two Or More (7.8%), Black Or African American (7.8%), Other (1.8%), American Indian Or Alaska Native (0.2%), and Native Hawaiian Or Other Pacific Islander (0.2%).
The representation of ethnic minorities in Berkeley is higher than the national average. The eight main ethnic groups that make up the population of Berkeley are White (51.4%), Asian (18%), Hispanic Or Latino (12.8%), Two Or More (7.8%), Black Or African American (7.8%), Other (1.8%), American Indian Or Alaska Native (0.2%), and Native Hawaiian Or Other Pacific Islander (0.2%).
Apartment List has released the results for Berkeley from the third annual Apartment List Renter Satisfaction Survey. This survey, which drew on responses from over 45,000 renters nationwide, provides insight on what states and cities must do to meet the needs of the country’s 111 million renters.
