Rooms for Rent in Lawndale, CA

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• How many rooms for rent does Lawndale have for such a small city?

  Lawndale covers 1.97 square miles and held 31,807 residents at the 2020 count, slightly fewer than a decade earlier, so nobody should expect the volume of a Torrance or an Inglewood. What it does have is an unusually high proportion of renters for a city this size, at about 62% of households, and a housing stock of small apartment buildings, duplexes and townhouses that lend themselves to sharing. Roomster is carrying 1 rooms for rent in and around the city. Because the whole place is walkable end to end in half an hour, do not filter too tightly by street: in Lawndale the difference between one listing and another is usually the household, not the location.

• What does a room for rent in Lawndale cost, and are the bills included?

  Rooms here run roughly $760 to $1,850 a month, with most sitting between $950 and $1,385. Rooms under $1,000 a month show up regularly in North Lawndale on the streets off Hawthorne Boulevard above Manhattan Beach Boulevard, and toward the Inglewood Avenue and Hollypark edge. The local habit worth knowing is how often the price is all-in: a striking number of Lawndale listings are townhouse and single-family rooms quoted with electricity, gas, water and internet already covered, sometimes with a garage space and laundry as well. That changes the comparison. A $1,100 room with everything included and parking is frequently the better deal against a $950 room where four people split the utilities and fight over the driveway.

• Can I find a room for rent near El Camino College?

  Yes, and Lawndale is one of the most sensible places to look for one. El Camino College sits immediately southeast of the city in Alondra Park, it serves Lawndale along with nine other South Bay communities, and crucially it is a commuter campus with no student housing of its own. Every student who cannot live with family has to find something in the surrounding cities, and Lawndale is the cheapest of the ones within a short drive. Rooms in South Lawndale, on the blocks toward Redondo Beach Boulevard and Prairie Avenue, put you closest to campus. Say in your inquiry that you are studying and what your class schedule looks like, because a household will want to know when you are actually home.

• Can I get to work from a Lawndale room rental without a car?

  It is possible but it takes planning, and you should sort it out before you take a room rather than after. Lawndale has no rail station of its own; the nearest is the Metro Redondo Beach station on Marine Avenue, sitting on the Hawthorne and Redondo Beach line just off Lawndale western edge, which puts the K Line within a bus ride or a long walk from the west side of the city. Bus service runs the main corridors, Hawthorne Boulevard, Inglewood Avenue, Manhattan Beach Boulevard and Redondo Beach Boulevard, and connects toward the aerospace employers north of here. If your job is in El Segundo or Hawthorne you can make it work; if it is further out, count on a car and ask whether the room comes with a parking space, since many of the townhouse shares here do.

• Is North or South Lawndale cheaper for rooms for rent?

  North Lawndale, generally. The city splits informally around Manhattan Beach Boulevard, and the northern half sits closer to Hawthorne and the commercial stretch of Hawthorne Boulevard, with older and denser apartment stock and the lowest room prices in the city. South Lawndale runs toward Redondo Beach Boulevard and the Alondra Park and El Camino College side, where you get quieter residential streets, more townhouses and single-family homes offering rooms, and a modest premium for the proximity to campus and the park. Neither half is far from anything given the size of the place, so the practical question is whether you would rather pay less and live on a busier corridor or pay a little more for a quiet street.

• Are rooms for rent in Lawndale cheaper than in the surrounding South Bay cities?

  Meaningfully so, and that gap is the entire reason people search here. Lawndale is boxed in by Hawthorne to the north, Redondo Beach to the west and southwest, Torrance to the south and Gardena to the east, and it prices below all of the coastal ones. A room here typically runs several hundred dollars under an equivalent room in Redondo Beach or Manhattan Beach, and below El Segundo, while sitting the same twenty minutes from the aerospace corridor those cities serve. What you give up is the beach, a downtown of any kind, and any large employer inside the city limits. For a lot of South Bay workers that is a straightforward trade, which is why Lawndale rooms tend to go to people who already know the area.