Clearwater, FL Rental Market Trends

Clearwater Rent Report: April 2024

Welcome to the Apartment List April 2024 Rent Report for Clearwater, FL. Currently, the overall median rent in the city stands at $1,481, after rising 1.0% last month. Prices remain down 2.6% year-over-year. Read on to learn more about what’s been happening in the Clearwater rental market and how it compares to trends throughout the broader Tampa metro area and the nation as a whole.

Clearwater rents are up 1.0% month-over-month and down 2.6% year-over-year

The median rent in Clearwater rose by 1.0% over the course of March, and has now decreased by a total of 2.6% over the past 12 months. Clearwater’s rent growth over the past year has is similar to the state average (-2.8%) but has fallen below the national average (-0.8%).

Clearwater rent growth in 2024 pacing below last year

Three months into the year, rents in Clearwater have risen 1.2%. This is a slower rate of growth compared to what the city was experiencing at this point last year: from January to March 2023 rents had increased 2.8%.

Clearwater rents are 2.7% lower than the metro-wide median

If we expand our view to the wider Tampa metro area, the median rent is $1,523 meaning that the median price in Clearwater ($1,481) is 2.7% lower than the price across the metro as a whole. Metro-wide annual rent growth stands at -1.7%, above the rate of rent growth within just the city.

The table below shows the latest rent stats for 7 cities in the Tampa metro area that are included in our database. Among them, Wesley Chapel is currently the most expensive, with a median rent of $1,927. Pinellas Park is the metro’s most affordable city, with a median rent of $1,423. The metro's fastest annual rent growth is occurring in Brandon (0.7%) while the slowest is in Pinellas Park (-8.2%).

City
Median 1BR Rent
Median 2BR Rent
M/M Rent Growth
Y/Y Rent Growth
Brandon
$1,394
$1,642
-1.0%
0.7%
Clearwater
$1,195
$1,570
1.0%
-2.6%
Pinellas Park
$998
$1,448
-0.4%
-8.2%
St. Petersburg
$1,236
$1,557
0.1%
-1.5%
Tampa
$1,335
$1,666
0.4%
-1.5%
Temple Terrace
$1,361
$1,549
0.1%
-5.3%
Wesley Chapel
$1,519
$1,785
-0.9%
-5.3%
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You can also use the map below to explore the latest rent trends in the Tampa 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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