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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.
Apartments Near Emory: What the Cliff Shuttle Reaches
Apartments near Emory that the free Cliff shuttle actually reaches sit in two corridors: Briarcliff Road (B Express, weekdays 7 a.m. to midnight) and Executive Park off North Druid Hills Road (weekdays 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.). Decatur is reachable on weekdays via the CCTMA route.
Georgia State Has No Campus Edge: How Downtown Atlanta Students Pick a Neighborhood
Georgia State students should pick a neighborhood by how close it is to a MARTA station, not by how close it is to campus, because GSU has no campus edge. Your realistic choices are the downtown core (per-bed student towers from about $809), Summerhill, Castleberry Hill, West End, and Midtown's Spring Street corridor.
3 UTK Neighborhoods Compared: Fort Sanders vs The Strip vs South Knoxville
For most UT Knoxville students, picking between UTK neighborhoods comes down to three areas: Fort Sanders, Cumberland Avenue (The Strip) and South Knoxville. Fort Sanders has the cheapest beds within a 15-minute walk of campus, The Strip has the newest high-rises at the highest prices, and South Knoxville trades a river crossing or a bus ride for more space.
Where Virginia Tech Students Live Off Campus: Blacksburg Neighborhoods by Bus Route
Where Virginia Tech students live off campus comes down to four places: the walkable pocket just north of campus around Webb Street and Lunch Pail Lane, the big-complex corridor along Toms Creek Road and University City Boulevard, the far end of North Main Street, or the Prices Fork side near Hethwood and Foxridge. Blacksburg Transit connects all four for free. The real question is how often a bus comes after lunch, after dark and on Saturday.
Where Clemson Students Live Off Campus: 5 Towns Compared
Where Clemson students live off campus comes down to about $1,000 a month to walk to class, or $400 to $650 a month for a bed 5 to 10 minutes away by car in Central or Seneca. The walkable places cluster around College Avenue; the cheap per-bed complexes sit out on the edges of town.
Campustown vs Urbana vs Savoy: Where UIUC Students Live and What Each Costs
Campustown vs Urbana is the real choice for most UIUC students, with Savoy a distant third. Campustown gets you a 4 to 17 minute walk to the Illini Union with confirmed per-bed prices from about $575 to $1,200, while North Lincoln Avenue in Urbana has the cheapest beds near UIUC on Find My Place, from $445.
WVU Neighborhoods Compared: Sunnyside vs Downtown vs Evansdale
The right WVU neighborhood depends on which campus your classes are on. Sunnyside has 9 of the 42 places on Find My Place's WVU page, and seven start under $700 a month. Downtown puts you 3 to 13 minutes on foot from the Mountainlair. Evansdale is the quiet pick for engineering and Health Sciences students, but FMP lists only three places there.
5 Ann Arbor Neighborhoods for Student Apartments: Kerrytown, South U, Burns Park and Beyond
Most University of Michigan students hunting for Ann Arbor student apartments end up in one of five neighborhoods: South University, the State Street and downtown high-rise blocks, Kerrytown and Lower Town, Burns Park and the Packard corridor, or the house blocks along Washtenaw and Geddes. South U is the default, with Z Place Apartments listing from $956/mo just 0.3 miles from campus.
Apartments Near Lane Community College: Where LCC Students Live and What It Costs
There are almost no apartments right next to Lane Community College. The closest rental on Find My Place is a four-bedroom house on Potter Street about 2.1 miles from the main campus, so most LCC students live in the UO corridor (shared rooms from $599 a month), a split house in south Eugene, Titan Court downtown, or Springfield, and ride LTD's Route 81 or Route 85 to class.
UGA Off-Campus Housing: 9 Places to Live in Five Points, Normaltown and the Eastside
Skip the downtown high-rises and UGA off-campus housing mostly comes down to three areas. Five Points means a rented house 1.2 to 2 miles from class, with whole-house rents between $2,449 and $5,000. The older streets toward Normaltown are oddly close (0.7 to 1 mile). And the Eastside? Cheaper complexes listing from $690 to $850, 2 to 3 miles out, where the bus is your commute.
WMU Off-Campus Neighborhoods: 6 Kalamazoo Areas by Commute
Most WMU off-campus neighborhoods sit within about a mile and a half of campus and sort into six areas on Find My Place: South Howard Street, Knollwood and Lafayette, Kendall Avenue, Michigamme Woods, West Michigan Avenue, and a couple of complexes two-plus miles out. The cheapest beds, $350 to $390, are on Kendall Avenue and out West Michigan.
Where UNLV Students Live Off Campus, and What It Costs
Where UNLV students live off campus is mostly within about a mile of the Maryland Parkway campus. The two main pockets are the blocks off Maryland Parkway and Cottage Grove, where one-bedrooms list from about $895, and the complexes on University Center Drive and Paradise Road west of Swenson Street, where they list from $535 and typically run near $1,000.