The average rent for a 1 bedroom apartment in Louisville is $1,308, while the average rent for a 2 bedroom apartment is $1,531.
Rent rates updated 21 days ago. Averages are based on the rental prices of properties listed on Apartment List.
Apartment List has released Louisville’s results from the third annual Apartment List Renter Satisfaction Survey. This survey, which drew on responses from over 45,000 renters, provides insight on what states and cities must do to meet the needs of 111 million American renters nationwide.
"Louisville renters expressed general satisfaction with the city overall," according to Apartment List. "Interestingly, ratings for Louisville vary widely across categories such as affordability and safety and low crime rate."
Welcome to the Apartment List April 2025 Rent Report for Louisville, KY. Currently, the overall median rent in the city stands at $1,189, after rising 0.6% last month. Prices and are now up 1.6% year-over-year. Read on to learn more about what’s been happening in the Louisville rental market and how it compares to trends throughout the nation as a whole.
The median rent in Louisville rose by 0.6% over the course of March, and has now increased by a total of 1.6% over the past 12 months. Louisville’s rent growth over the past year has is similar to the state average (2.0%) and has outpaced the national average (-0.4%).
Three months into the year, rents in Louisville have risen 1.0%. This is a slower rate of growth compared to what the city was experiencing at this point last year: from January to March 2024 rents had increased 2.5%.
Louisville rents went up 0.6% in the past month, compared to the national rate of 0.6%. Among the nation's 100 largest cities, this ranks #46. Similar monthly rent growth took place in Kansas City, MO (0.6%) and Denver, CO (0.6%).
Citywide, the median rent currently stands at $972 for a 1-bedroom apartment and $1,222 for a 2-bedroom. Across all bedroom sizes (ie, the entire rental market), the median rent is $1,189. That ranks #79 in the nation, among the country's 100 largest cities.
For comparison, the median rent across the nation as a whole is $1,216 for a 1-bedroom, $1,370 for a 2-bedroom, and $1,384 overall. The median rent in Louisville is 14.1% lower than the national, and is similar to the prices you would find in Albuquerque, NM ($1,211) and San Antonio, TX ($1,184).
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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