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Neighborhoods & Cities
Where to live near campus — neighborhood breakdowns, commute times, and the tradeoffs between price, distance, and vibe in student towns.
BYU Off-Campus Housing by Area: How Far Each Provo Neighborhood Really Is from Campus
The closest off-campus housing near BYU sits 0.7 miles from campus — a 19 to 22 minute walk, or a 3 to 5 minute drive. Push out to 1.0 or 1.3 miles and that walk stretches to 29 to 38 minutes, while private rooms start listing at $455 instead of $579. At BYU, miles and minutes rank differently.
UB North Campus vs South Campus: Where to Live Off Campus
Choosing off-campus housing at UB comes down to one question: live near North Campus if most of your classes are on North Campus, and near South Campus if they aren't. Purpose-built complexes in Amherst list from $889/mo at Block20 and $969/mo at The Station Buffalo, while a shared room at Collegiate Village Apartments goes for $704 per person.
ECU Student Housing by Neighborhood: 6 Greenville Areas Compared
Cotanche Street is the shortest walk to class at ECU. Yugo Greenville Campus Towers sits 0.2 miles from campus and The Boundary at West End 0.3 miles. The cheap stuff lives elsewhere: The Bower Student Living on South Charles Boulevard starts at $420/mo, and Pirates Cove out on East 10th starts at $450/mo.
8 Best Neighborhoods for Pitt Students: Apartments Near the University of Pittsburgh
Go South Oakland if walking to the Cathedral of Learning beats everything else on your list. That's the short answer for anyone hunting apartments near the University of Pittsburgh, and the rest comes down to how much rent you'll trade for how many minutes of commute. A shared bedroom on McKee Place goes for $384/mo; a loft on Railroad Street asks $1,681.
5 Best Neighborhoods for Apartments Near Rice University (2026)
Looking for apartments near Rice University? Start in Southgate — it is the only pocket where walking to class stays under ten minutes, and The Nest on Sunset sits 0.4 miles out from $1,330/mo. Every other neighborhood here trades distance for cheaper rent or a better weekend.
6 Best Lexington Neighborhoods for Apartments Near the University of Kentucky
Apartments near the University of Kentucky list from about $459 to $1,529 a month, and where you land in that spread depends almost entirely on which side of campus you pick. Six areas carry most of the UK off-campus market. Cheapest per person is the Angliana Avenue cluster; shortest walk to class is South Limestone.
6 Best Neighborhoods for MSU Off Campus Housing in East Lansing
Two buildings sit 0.1 miles apart on Grand River Avenue in downtown East Lansing. One holds a perfect 5.0 from verified residents. The other sits at 2.9, with a review detailing a security deposit sent to collections. Location is not the variable that decides how your year goes at Michigan State.
6 Best Neighborhoods for University of Alabama Off Campus Housing
The Strip is the default answer for University of Alabama off campus housing, and it is the wrong answer for a lot of students. Places within a half mile of campus list from about $899/mo, while the same money buys a bigger unit and a better-reviewed building 1.5 miles out on Jack Warner Parkway. The cheapest listing in the whole Tuscaloosa set right now is $499/mo, and it sits 2.2 miles south on Hargrove Road.
6 Best Neighborhoods for Auburn Off-Campus Housing (2026)
Auburn off-campus housing clusters into about six areas, and the cheapest one is not the best value. Rent inside the College Street core runs roughly $1,000-$1,600 for a place you can walk to class from, while spots out on East Longleaf Drive and Richland Road list from $640-$700 and hand you a Tiger Transit commute instead.
6 Best Neighborhoods for Apartments Near the University of Houston (2026)
The cheapest verified bed near the University of Houston right now is $649/month at Altitude on Martin Luther King Blvd, one mile from campus. Most of the walkable student inventory sits between $709 and $1,250, clustered in four pockets southeast of downtown: University Oaks, Third Ward, South MacGregor, and the Cullen Blvd corridor toward EaDo.
5 Best College Park Neighborhoods for UMD Off-Campus Housing
Old Town College Park wins if you want to walk to class; the Route 1 corridor wins on value. For most students hunting UMD off-campus housing, that is the entire decision. Verified listings run from $690/month for a shared bedroom to $2,421 for a private one-bedroom.
6 Best Neighborhoods for Temple Off-Campus Housing in Philadelphia (2026)
Six neighborhoods do almost all the work for Temple off campus housing: Cecil B. Moore, Yorktown, the North Broad corridor below campus, the blocks west of Broad, Northern Liberties, and University City. Temple Crossing sits 0.4 miles from Main Campus and lists from $740/mo, while shared rooms at University Village Temple list from $479/mo.