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February 2020 St. Louis Rent Report
Welcome to the February 2020 St. Louis Rent Report. St. Louis rents remained steady over the past month. In this report, we'll evaluate trends in the St. Louis rental market, including comparisons to cities throughout the metro, state, and nation.
February 2020 St. Louis Rent Report
Welcome to the February 2020 St. Louis Rent Report. St. Louis rents remained steady over the past month. In this report, we'll evaluate trends in the St. Louis rental market, including comparisons to cities throughout the metro, state, and nation.
St. Louis rent trends were flat over the past month
St. Louis rents have remained flat over the past month, however, they have increased marginally by 0.7% year-over-year. Currently, median rents in St. Louis stand at $723 for a one-bedroom apartment and $938 for a two-bedroom. St. Louis' year-over-year rent growth lags the state average of 0.9%, as well as the national average of 1.6%.
Rents rising across the St. Louis Metro
Throughout the past year, rent increases have been occurring not just in the city of St. Louis, but across the entire metro. Of the largest 10 cities that we have data for in the St. Louis metro, 9 of them have seen prices rise. Here's a look at how rents compare across some of the largest cities in the metro.
- Hazelwood has seen rents fall by 0.3% over the past year, the biggest drop in the metro. It also has the least expensive rents in the St. Louis metro, with a two-bedroom median of $865.
- Chesterfield has the most expensive rents in the St. Louis metro, with a two-bedroom median of $1,364; the city has also seen rent growth of 8.1% over the past year, the fastest in the metro.
St. Louis rents more affordable than many large cities nationwide
As rents have increased marginally in St. Louis, a few large cities nationwide have also seen rents grow modestly. St. Louis is still more affordable than most large cities across the country.
- Rents increased slightly in other cities across the state, with Missouri as a whole logging rent growth of 0.9% over the past year. For example, rents have grown by 2.3% in Springfield and 1.2% in Kansas City.
- St. Louis' median two-bedroom rent of $938 is below the national average of $1,193. Nationwide, rents have grown by 1.6% over the past year compared to the 0.7% increase in St. Louis.
- While St. Louis' rents rose marginally over the past year, many cities nationwide also saw increases, including Phoenix (+3.7%), Dallas (+2.4%), and Seattle (+1.8%).
- Renters will find more reasonable prices in St. Louis than most large cities. For example, San Francisco has a median 2BR rent of $3,090, which is more than three times the price in St. Louis.
For more information check out our national report. You can also access our full data for cities and counties across the U.S. at this link.
Methodology - Recent Updates:
Data from private listing sites, including our own, tends to skew toward luxury apartments, which introduces sample bias when estimates are calculated directly from these listings. To address these limitations, we’ve recently made major updates to our methodology, which we believe have greatly improved the accuracy and reliability of our estimates.
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Methodology:
Apartment List is committed to making our rent estimates the best and most accurate available. To do this, we start 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, comparing only units that are available across both time periods 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. Our methodology also allows us to construct a picture of rent growth over an extended period of time, with estimates that are updated each month.
Read more about our methodology here.
About Rent Reports:
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