This Is How Much Apartment Space $1,100 Gets You in 54 Cities in Michigan

• For $1,100, you can rent 856 square feet of apartment space in Michigan, on average, or 40% more than the national average.
• Of the 54 Michigan cities included in our research, Mount Pleasant had the largest and Ann Arbor had the smallest apartments for $1,100, offering 1,282 and 541 square feet, respectively, for that price.
• Use the calculator at the end of the article to find out how much space you can rent in Michigan on your budget.

The size of an apartment is one of the most important features when choosing a place to rent. And, as we’ve been spending more time at home in recent years, space has become even more valuable. But, if you’re looking to move and hoping to get as much apartment space as possible for your money, note that the size of rental apartments can vary widely in the state of Michigan.

So, as the busy renting season kicks off, we wanted to make your search a little easier by researching the amount of space you could get for the average monthly rent in Michigan, which is around $1,100. While $1,100 would get you around 613 square feet in the top 100 most populous cities nationally, the average apartment space in Michigan for this price is higher — 856 square feet.

Specifically, of the 54 cities we analyzed, you can get an apartment larger than 900 square feet for $1,100 in 26 locations. Granted, the size of apartments you can rent on a $1,100 budget in the Wolverine State varies from 541 square feet in Ann Arbor to more than twice as much space in Mount Pleasant (1,282 square feet).

Check out the infographic below to compare apartment sizes on a budget of $1,100 in 54 cities in Michigan:

Top 5 Cities with Most Apartment Space for $1,100

The most spacious rentals you can get for $1,100 in Michigan are located in central Michigan in Mount Pleasant, which offers a generous 1,282 square feet of living space. Flint apartments are the second-largest with 1,270 square feet, while the third-largest are in Taylor with 1,210 square feet.

Apartments for rent in Monroe come in fourth, offering no less than 1,032 square feet. It was immediately followed by Warren — the third-largest city in the state — with 1,024 square feet.

Top 5 Cities with Least Apartment Space for $1,100

The places with the least apartment space for $1,100 are spread around the main metros of Michigan. For $1,100, you can get a 541-square-foot apartment in Ann Arbor, whereas Wixom apartments for $1,100 come at an average of 683 square feet.

Dearborn has the third-smallest apartments for $1,100, averaging 699 square feet. It’s followed by East Lansing with 730 square feet and Grand Rapids — Michigan’s second-most populous city — with 740 square feet. Surprisingly, Detroit (which is the most populous city in the state) only came in seventh, with an average apartment size of 755 square feet for $1,100.

What You Can Rent for $1,100 in the 3 Largest Michigan Metros

In the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn metro, the most spacious apartments are found in Taylor, where the average of $1,100 can get you 1,210 square feet. Warren — the second-largest city in the metro — ranks second with 1,024 square feet, which is a significant amount of space for a city so close to Detroit. Immediately following it is Roseville with 1,020 square feet. Conversely, the smallest apartments in the metro are found in Wixom, Dearborn and Novi, where you can rent 683, 699 and 743 square feet, respectively, on average.

Meanwhile, the largest apartments in the Grand Rapids-Wyoming metro are in Comstock Park (938 square feet), followed by Grandville (907 square feet) and Allendale (866 square feet). Grand Rapids has the least spacious apartments in the metro, averaging 740 square feet for $1,100.

Likewise, East Lansing has the smallest apartments in the Lansing-East Lansing metro, where you can rent an average of 730 square feet for $1,100. The most spacious apartments in this metro are in Haslett (1,005 square feet), Holt (980 square feet) and Lansing (948 square feet) — the metro’s main city.

Check out the graphic below to see what you can rent in Michigan for $1,100 by metro:

See How Much Space You Can Get on Your Budget

Want to find out how much space you can rent on your budget in these Michigan cities? Use the calculator below:

Methodology

RentCafe.com is a nationwide apartment search website that enables renters to easily find apartments and houses for rent throughout the U.S.

To compile this report, RentCafe.com’s research team analyzed Yardi Matrix apartment size data and average rent prices. State average rent and apartment size information are based on multifamily properties of 50 units or more across the entire state of Michigan in cities with a minimum population of 10,000.

The average apartment space per $1,100 of rent was calculated by dividing $1,100 by the average cost of rent per square foot in each of the 54 cities studied, ensuring a statistically relevant sample size of apartments.

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