Here’s how big of an apartment $1,500 per month will get you in Tacoma, elsewhere
The walls are definitely closing in on affordability when it comes to apartments.
RentCafe, a nationwide apartment search website, reviewed what average size apartment a $1,500-per-month budget would get renters.
Tacoma’s average size was 792 square feet. Puyallup offered a smidge more, with 793 square feet, on average.
In Seattle, the average size for $1,500 was 475 square feet.
In other area cities and towns, Marysville’s average apartment size for $1,500 was the largest, at 826 square feet. Fife and University Place followed, both offering an average 810 square feet.
In contrast, $1,500 will get you on average 777 square feet in Lakewood, 769 square feet in Gig Harbor and 762 square feet in Federal Way.
RentCafe’s national comparison, to illustrate where renters can rent the most apartment space, showed that Wichita, Kansas, would get you the most space for $1,500, with an average of more than 1,500 square feet.
“This means that, for $1,500, Wichita residents are able to live in a four-bedroom apartment, while still enjoying the perks of urban life,” RentCafe noted in its blog.
Manhattan was the least affordable nationwide with $1,500 able to rent an average of 262 square feet.
The blog noted that “one apartment in Wichita could fit six Manhattan apartments for the same budget.”
To see the report go to rentcafe.com/blog/apartmentliving/rental-space-for-1500/.
