{"id":252617,"date":"2026-04-16T13:50:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/252617\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T13:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:50:22","slug":"this-city-ranks-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/252617\/","title":{"rendered":"This city ranks No. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

While rent prices continue to climb across much of the country, one\u00a0South Texas border city<\/a> remains of the most affordable.\u00a0Laredo<\/a> has been named the most affordable place to rent in Texas, with residents spending a far smaller share of their income on housing than in most major U.S. cities, according to a new\u00a0WalletHub analysis.<\/p>\n

WalletHub analyzed more than 180 cities across the United States to determine how far a person\u2019s rental dollar can go. The site took a look at how average rental costs compared to household income for its ranking of “Cities with the most affordable rent<\/a>.” In some cities, rent costs as little as 15% of the median annual household income. In others, residents have to fork over more than a third of their take-home pay in order to pay for a place to lay their heads at night. But in Laredo, the cost of rent is only about 19% of the median household income, making the bustling border town the most affordable city in the Lone Star State to rent a place.<\/p>\n

So just what makes a city \u201crenter friendly\u201d? According to Andrew\u00a0Burnstine, an associate professor in the College of Business and Management at Lynn University in Florida, it\u2019s a combination of affordable monthly rental costs, a healthy amount of rental units available on the market, and the overall stability of a local rental market.<\/p>\n

\u201cVacancy rates tell the next part of the story, since anything near 5 percent or lower tends to push rents upward quickly,\u201d\u00a0Burnstine said.<\/p>\n

Burnstine advises renters to take total costs into consideration when deciding where to rent. It\u2019s not just monthly rent payments that tenants have to worry about. It\u2019s also security deposits, utility bills, fees for amenities such as parking or pent rent, and other expenses.<\/p>\n

Other affordable Texas cities include\u00a0Brownsville, Corpus Christi, El Paso and Austin, which has recently seen a glut<\/a> of available apartments that has driven down rental costs in the capital city. On the flip side, Texas\u2019 largest metros \u2014 San Antonio, Dallas and Houston \u2014 are the priciest places in the state.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how every Texas city stacked up on\u00a0WalletHub\u2019s rental affordability analysis:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While rent prices continue to climb across much of the country, one\u00a0South Texas border city remains of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-252617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-san-antonio","9":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","10":"tag-san-antonio-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}