{"id":9688,"date":"2025-10-18T10:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T10:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/9688\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T10:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T10:32:07","slug":"where-can-you-rent-in-florida-for-under-1000-zillow-ran-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/9688\/","title":{"rendered":"Where can you rent in Florida for under $1,000? Zillow ran the numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is rent still too damn high? Renters are increasingly scrambling <\/a>to find the cash to keep a roof over their heads.<\/p>\n

As of October, only 13 out of the top 100 largest U.S. metro areas have more than a third of their apartment listings priced below $1,000 a month, according to a new report<\/a> from real estate marketplace site Zillow. Most of those are in the Midwest and the South.<\/p>\n

We’re in the South. How does Florida rank?<\/p>\n

Hint: None of those 13 metro areas are here.<\/p>\n

Florida metro area rents<\/p>\n

According to Zillow’s findings, the percentage of multifamily rentals under $1,000 in these Florida metro areas are:<\/p>\n

Note that these are what Zillow lists as larger metro areas. Rent may be cheaper in smaller or more rural areas.<\/p>\n

Best time to buy a home in Florida? Lower prices, more listings expected soon<\/a><\/p>\n

How does Florida rank for apartment rentals?<\/p>\n

Forget the $1,000. What about shares of affordable apartments where rent costs less than 30% of the median household income? We’re a little better there, with 88.1% of the apartment rentals in Jacksonville fitting the bill.<\/p>\n

It still doesn’t come in till No. 34 out of the 100 metro areas listed, though, and Miami is at the very bottom with only 30.9% of that areas’s listings in the “affordable” range.<\/p>\n

Share of affordable apartments, per Zillow:<\/p>\n

What is Florida charging for room rents?<\/p>\n

Renting a room in an apartment or larger home can be a less-expensive way to go, with a median list rent for less than $1,000 a month in 86 of the largest metro areas Zillow looked at.<\/p>\n

Here’s the median rent for a single room in these Florida markets, according to Zillow:<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Rents in Florida among highest in US, but not everywhere<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is rent still too damn high? Renters are increasingly scrambling to find the cash to keep a roof…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9546,28,30,29,116,9545,9544],"class_list":["post-9688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-apartment-rentals","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-jacksonville","tag-metro-areas","tag-zillow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}