Apartments for Rent in Bend, OR

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• How many apartments for rent are available in Bend, OR right now?

  Bend built apartments faster over the past decade than almost anywhere else in Oregon, which is a recent turn for a place that spent most of its history as a mill town of single-family houses - and it is why the apartment map here is a set of newer complexes on the north and east edges rather than anything dense downtown. Roomster currently lists 1 apartments for rent around the city, concentrated along the 3rd Street and 27th Street corridors, Boyd Acres and the north end near Cooley Road, with a smaller and pricier set on the Westside and around the Old Mill District. How new a building is matters here for a reason beyond finishes, which the rent-cap question below explains.

• How much does it cost to rent an apartment in Bend, OR?

  Bend's median rent sits near $1,711 and has come down about 4 percent over the past year, which after a decade of steep increases is a real shift toward the renter. One-bedrooms generally run $1,600 to $1,850 and two-bedrooms roughly $1,850 to $2,000, with the Westside stretching well past that. You can find one-bedrooms under $1,500 a month in the Orchard District, Boyd Acres and the older complexes east of 3rd Street, where the buildings are 1970s and 1980s vintage and the trade-off is distance from the river and the trailheads. Anything walkable to the Old Mill District or NorthWest Crossing sits at the top of the range - and in a softening market, those are the units most likely to be offering a concession to fill.

• Is there rent control on apartments for rent in Bend?

  Yes, at the state level. Oregon was the first state in the country to adopt statewide rent stabilization, and the cap on an annual increase is the lesser of 10 percent or 7 percent plus regional inflation - which works out to 9.5 percent for 2026. The procedural protections around it matter as much as the number: rent cannot be raised at all during the first year of a tenancy, only once in any 12-month period afterward, and the landlord must give 90 days written notice. After your first year a landlord also needs a qualifying reason to end the tenancy rather than simply declining to renew. The significant exception is age - buildings less than 15 years old are exempt from the cap entirely, which in Bend covers a meaningful share of the newest complexes, so ask when the building was completed before assuming you are covered.

• What deposit and fees should I expect on a Bend apartment for rent?

  Oregon puts no ceiling on the deposit, so one month is standard and more is common with thin credit or a pet - but the state is exacting about what happens next: the landlord must return the deposit together with a written accounting of any deduction within 31 days of you giving back possession, and failing to do so exposes them to a claim for up to twice the amount. There is no broker-fee culture in Bend the way there is in the East Coast metros, so an application fee reflecting the actual screening cost is normally the only charge beyond deposit and first month. One thing worth clarifying before you sign: ask whether a last-month payment is prepaid rent or part of the deposit, because Oregon treats the two differently and it changes what comes back to you.

• Are there apartments for rent near Bend's main commute routes?

  Bend's apartment supply follows the arterials rather than any transit line. US 97 runs north to south through the city as the Bend Parkway and is the spine everything hangs off, 3rd Street parallels it and carries most of the older and cheaper complexes, and 27th Street and Cooley Road hold the newer product on the east and north edges. Cascades East Transit operates fixed routes within Bend plus regional links to Redmond, Sisters and La Pine, but frequency is limited and very few renters here depend on it alone. The practical questions to ask about any Bend apartment are how long it takes to reach St. Charles or the Westside in a snowstorm and whether the parking is covered - both matter more locally than the distance to a bus stop.

• How does renting an apartment in Bend compare with Redmond or Sisters?

  Redmond, about 20 minutes north on US 97 and home to the region's commercial airport, is the standard trade-off: rents run meaningfully below Bend's for comparable units, and plenty of people who work in Bend live there and drive in. Sisters to the northwest is small, scenic and expensive per square foot, with very little apartment inventory of any kind. La Pine to the south is the cheapest option in the county and the longest commute. What keeps people paying Bend prices is that the hospital, the university campus, the jobs and the trailheads are all here - but if your work is remote, pricing Redmond against Bend is the single most consequential comparison you can run in Deschutes County.