Most for your money: Rent per square feet in San Diego County

SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. — If you live in San Diego, you know there is a price tag to dwelling in paradise. Locating out how substantially is much too a lot is dependent on site and the duration of a commute you are prepared to make. 

Lease Café, a nationwide condominium look for internet site, analyzed how a lot house renters can assume to obtain all over San Diego for $1,500.

Spoiler Notify: It is definitely much less expensive outdoors the town.

In San Diego, $1,500 does not go considerably. You are seeking at about 500-square-feet for that cost. The most affordable position to get the most bang for your buck is Fallbrook, California and that is about a 40-mile commute to downtown San Diego.

CBS 8 checked Residences.com in Fallbrook and for $1,500 a month and a 40-mile commute, it can get you a whopping 800-square-feet, or a 2 to 3 bedroom condominium when place is what you involve on a spending budget.

Meanwhile, San Diego renters settle for a 1 bed room for the identical hire.

• The next premier space is Lakeside at 712-square-feet
• Countrywide City comes in 3rd at 659-sq.-feet
• El Cajon and Spring Valley are 4th and 5th consecutively, at 645-square-feet 
• Santee arrives in 6th with 636-square-ft
• Escondido is 7th at 623-sq.-feet
• Vista is 8th with 603-square-toes
• Chula Vista is 9th with 598-square-toes
• La Mesa is 10th at 587-sq.-toes

Rent Cafe suggests Chula Vista is the 20th city with the least place amongst the hundred cities analyzed due to the fact it only receives you 598-square-toes, or as a great deal as a one particular bed room condominium in San Diego. 

To place this into context, the typical apartment sizing in San Diego is 860-square-toes.

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