Sterling Heights Rent Report: June 2026

Welcome to the Apartment List June 2026 Rent Report for Sterling Heights, MI. Currently, the overall median rent in the city stands at $1,313, after rising 0.8% last month. Prices and are now up 2.5% year-over-year. Read on to learn more about what’s been happening in the Sterling Heights rental market and how it compares to trends throughout the broader Detroit metro area and the nation as a whole.

The median rent in Sterling Heights rose by 0.8% over the course of May, and has now increased by a total of 2.5% over the past 12 months. Sterling Heights’s rent growth over the past year has has outpaced both state (1.0%) and national (-1.5%) averages.

If we expand our view to the wider Detroit metro area, the median rent is $1,238 meaning that the median price in Sterling Heights ($1,313) is 6.0% greater than the price across the metro as a whole. Metro-wide annual rent growth stands at 0.1%, below the rate of rent growth within just the city.

The table below shows the latest rent stats for 6 cities in the Detroit metro area that are included in our database. Among them, Troy is currently the most expensive, with a median rent of $1,691. Detroit is the metro’s most affordable city, with a median rent of $1,035. The metro's fastest annual rent growth is occurring in Sterling Heights (2.5%) while the slowest is in Detroit (-3.9%).

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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