Feb 11, 2025 - Real Estate
How much apartment space $2K buys you in the Seattle area
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Paying $2,000 for rent gets you a smaller apartment in the Seattle area than almost anywhere else in the country, per a recent Redfin report.
By the numbers: In the Seattle metro area, tenants with a monthly rental budget of $2,000 could afford an estimated 732 square feet of living space as of last fall, Redfin found.
- That's one of the smallest footprints among the 45 metro areas that Redfin analyzed, trailing only San Jose, San Francisco, New York City, Los Angeles, San Diego and Boston.
- It's also 371 square feet smaller than the national estimate of 1,103 square feet.
What they did: Researchers analyzed apartments in buildings with five or more units that were listed on Redfin.com or Rent.com between last August and October.
Zoom out: Renters in the Memphis, Tennessee, and Birmingham, Alabama, metro areas could get more than 1,500 square feet by paying $2,000 per month, Redfin found.
- That's more than double what Seattle-area tenants could rent for the same price.