San Antonio submarket guides
Twelve submarkets across Bexar County and the Schertz-Cibolo corridor. Each guide covers rent by unit type, off-peak commutes to the employment centers that submarket actually serves, and the inventory age and class mix that predicts how properties there screen a file.
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One-bedroom rent by submarket
Where each submarket sits against the July 2026 metro one-bedroom average of $1,095. Ranges are across the communities we work with.
| Submarket | 1BR range | Position vs metro average |
|---|---|---|
| Central San Antonio | $1,250 - $1,950 | Above |
| Alamo Heights & North Central | $1,150 - $1,650 | At or above |
| Northeast San Antonio | $950 - $1,300 | Around |
| Stone Oak & Far North Bexar | $1,200 - $1,700 | Above |
| La Cantera, The Rim & The Dominion | $1,300 - $1,900 | Above |
| UTSA & Northwest San Antonio | $950 - $1,400 | Around |
| South Texas Medical Center | $950 - $1,350 | Around |
| Leon Valley & Northwest | $850 - $1,150 | Below |
| West San Antonio | $1,050 - $1,450 | At or above |
| Lackland & Southwest | $800 - $1,100 | Below |
| South San Antonio | $850 - $1,250 | Below |
| East San Antonio | $1,000 - $1,350 | At or above |
Ranges across the communities we work with, confirmed July 2026. Metro baseline: RentCafe / Yardi Matrix, July 2026. Add 7-15% for the mandatory fee stack.
Core submarkets
Central San Antonio
The urban core covers Downtown, the Pearl, Southtown and the King William edge. It holds one of only two real high-rise concentrations in Bexar County, sitting next to 1920s mill and warehouse conversions, so two buildings a block apart can price and screen very differently.
- Downtown
- Pearl
- Southtown
- King William
Alamo Heights & North Central
Alamo Heights, Castle Hills, Shavano Park and Hollywood Park are separate municipalities inside the Bexar County map, and that matters more than it sounds: municipal boundaries shape which school district a building sits in, which changes rent by unit type inside a two-mile radius.
- Alamo Heights
- Castle Hills
- Shavano Park
- Hollywood Park
Northeast San Antonio
The Northeast corridor along I-35 and Loop 1604 is the closest large apartment concentration to JBSA-Randolph, which shapes everything about it: lease terms flex around PCS cycles, military clause questions come up constantly, and inventory turns over on the summer orders calendar.
- Live Oak
- Universal City
- Converse
- Selma
Stone Oak & Far North Bexar
Stone Oak, Sonterra, Encino Park and the far-north 1604 corridor hold the newest concentration of suburban Class A product in Bexar County. It is the submarket where screening standards run tightest and where the compressed luxury-to-mid-tier gap shows up most clearly.
- Stone Oak
- Encino Park
- Sonterra
- Far North 1604
La Cantera, The Rim & The Dominion
The I-10 and Loop 1604 interchange corridor is the second of San Antonio's two genuine luxury concentrations. Retail, resort and corporate campuses sit inside a couple of miles of each other, and the apartment stock built around them prices and screens accordingly.
- La Cantera
- The Rim
- The Dominion
- UTSA edge
UTSA & Northwest San Antonio
The UTSA and Northwest submarket runs along the 1604 and I-10 corridor around the main campus. Roommate-driven demand shapes the floor plans, and the academic calendar shapes availability in a way no other San Antonio submarket experiences.
- UTSA
- Northwest
- Vance Jackson
- 1604/I-10 corridor
South Texas Medical Center
The Medical Center submarket exists because of the hospital systems and UT Health San Antonio. Shift work drives the search here: renters ask about drive time at 5 AM and 7 PM, not at rush hour, and about lease terms that match a rotation rather than a calendar year.
- Medical Center
- Huebner
- Wurzbach
- Fredericksburg Rd corridor
Additional submarkets
Leon Valley & Northwest
Leon Valley is a separate municipality inside Loop 410 along Bandera Road. The apartment stock skews older Class B and C, which is exactly why it comes up so often in our screening work: on-site managers here still make case-by-case decisions.
See the numbersWest San Antonio
Alamo Ranch and Westover Hills form the West-side growth corridor. Most of the apartment stock is recent construction built around the Westover Hills employer base, which makes it newer and stricter than the inner-loop submarkets nearby.
See the numbersLackland & Southwest
The Southwest submarket wraps JBSA-Lackland and the US-90 corridor. It is the closest apartment concentration to Lackland and the 59th Medical Wing, and rents here sit below the metro average across every unit type.
See the numbersSouth San Antonio
The Southside and the Brooks redevelopment along US-281 South make up a submarket with its own employer base and a short Downtown commute. Brooks has added newer apartment product to an area otherwise dominated by older stock.
See the numbersEast San Antonio
The Schertz, Cibolo and Universal City corridor sits at the edge of Bexar and Guadalupe counties, next to JBSA-Randolph. Most of the apartment stock is newer suburban product, and the corridor has its own school district and municipal services.
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