Overview of Findings

Apartment List has released Louisville’s results from the third annual Apartment List Renter Satisfaction Survey. This survey, which drew on responses from over 45,000 renters, provides insight on what states and cities must do to meet the needs of 111 million American renters nationwide.

"Louisville renters expressed general satisfaction with the city overall," according to Apartment List. "Interestingly, ratings for Louisville vary widely across categories such as affordability and safety and low crime rate."

Key findings in Louisville include the following:

• Louisville renters gave their city a C+ overall.
• The highest-rated categories for Louisville were affordability (A-), jobs and career opportunities (B+) and public transit (B+).
• The areas of concern to Louisville are safety and low crime rate (D), commute time (C), weather (C) and quality of local schools (C).
• Millennial renters are very satisfied with their city, giving it an overall rating of B+.
• Louisville earned similar scores to other cities in Kentucky, including Lexington (C).
• Louisville did relatively poorly compared to other Southern cities, including Nashville, TN (A-), Charlotte, NC (A-) and Atlanta, GA (B).
• Louisville earned similar scores to other cities nationwide, including Austin, TX (A-), Denver, CO (B+) and Seattle, WA (B+).
• The top rated cities nationwide for renter satisfaction include Scottsdale, AZ, Irvine, CA, Boulder, CO and Ann Arbor, MI. The lowest rated cities include Tallahassee, FL, Stockton, CA, Dayton, OH, Detroit, MI and Newark, NJ.

Renters say:

• "I love that there are so many new restaurants to try, but hate that rent is so expensive." – Tamika P.
• "It’s a great place to buy a house and land. There are lots of job opportunities. But the crime rate is also going up." – Anon.
• "Great restaurants and the traffic isn’t bad. But there isn’t much of a social scene for singles." – Tracy A.
• "Louisville has some beautiful, artsy and fun parts of town. However, I wish it was safer to walk at night." – Grace M.

For more information on the survey methodology and findings or to speak to one of our researchers, please contact our team at rentonomics@apartmentlist.com.