Denver has claimed the throne as the metro’s area most expensive city in which to rent a one-bedroom apartment, according to .
Examining a collection of apartment listings that went on the market in December, Zumper staff member Crystal Chen determined that the Mile High City’s median one-bedroom rent of $1,530 per month was the highest among 12 major metro cities.
A $20-rise between November and December catapulted Denver past Broomfield and Centennial for the top spot. Broomfield, the metro area’s priciest apartment market in , saw its median asking rate fall $20 to come in third place for January at $1,500. Centennial held onto the second spot at a steady $1,510.
Lakewood, Parker and Castle Rock round out the top half of the listings. The cheapest one-bedroom places in metro Denver can be found in Arvada ($1,120 per month), Aurora ($1,200 per month) and Northglenn ($1210 per month), according to Zumper.
When it comes to adding a second bedroom, Northglenn is the cheapest city for that. Its median two-bedroom listing in December came in at $1,370. Denver holds the top spot in that category, too, at $1,950 per month.
Zumper sources data for its monthly rental reports from a combination of proprietary listings on and third-party listings, according to Chen. Around 3,700 listing were analyzed for the most recent Denver report.
Median rents are skewed by what is available on the market, with new apartments — many of them luxury products that carry high price tags in the Denver area — often having an outsized effect.
