Newark, DE Rental Market Trends

Newark Rent Report: April 2024

Welcome to the Apartment List April 2024 Rent Report for Newark, DE. Currently, the overall median rent in the city stands at $1,584, after rising 0.8% last month. Prices and are now up 2.8% year-over-year. Read on to learn more about what’s been happening in the Newark rental market and how it compares to trends throughout the broader Philadelphia metro area and the nation as a whole.

Newark rents are up 0.8% month-over-month and up 2.8% year-over-year

The median rent in Newark rose by 0.8% over the course of March, and has now increased by a total of 2.8% over the past 12 months. Newark’s rent growth over the past year has has outpaced both state (1.2%) and national (-0.8%) averages.

Newark rent growth in 2024 pacing above last year

Three months into the year, rents in Newark have risen 2.3%. This is a faster rate of growth compared to what the city was experiencing at this point last year: from January to March 2023 rents had increased 1.5%.

Newark rents are 3.7% higher than the metro-wide median

If we expand our view to the wider Philadelphia metro area, the median rent is $1,527 meaning that the median price in Newark ($1,584) is 3.7% greater than the price across the metro as a whole. Metro-wide annual rent growth stands at 1.4%, below the rate of rent growth within just the city.

The table below shows the latest rent stats for 5 cities in the Philadelphia metro area that are included in our database. Among them, Exton is currently the most expensive, with a median rent of $2,239. Norristown is the metro’s most affordable city, with a median rent of $1,280. The metro's fastest annual rent growth is occurring in Newark (2.8%) while the slowest is in Norristown (-0.7%).

City
Median 1BR Rent
Median 2BR Rent
M/M Rent Growth
Y/Y Rent Growth
Exton
$2,024
$2,448
0.2%
1.4%
King of Prussia
$1,819
$1,950
1.7%
0.3%
Newark
$1,375
$1,518
0.8%
2.8%
Norristown
$1,092
$1,298
-1.0%
-0.7%
Philadelphia
$1,273
$1,472
0.4%
-0.1%
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You can also use the map below to explore the latest rent trends in the Philadelphia 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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