Apartments for Rent in Rialto, CA

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• How many apartments for rent are available in Rialto, CA right now?

  Rialto grew as a house town rather than an apartment town - it spread outward along Foothill Boulevard and Riverside Avenue in single-family tracts, and even today complexes of more than 50 units make up under a quarter of the rentals downtown. The practical effect is that the apartment pool here is smaller than the city's population would suggest and it turns over fast. Roomster currently lists 29 apartments for rent in and around Rialto, with the deepest supply along Riverside Avenue between Route 66 and Merrill Avenue and newer product on the north side near the Renaissance development on the former municipal airport.

• How much does it cost to rent an apartment in Rialto, CA?

  The citywide apartment average is about $2,008, up roughly 1.5 percent on the year, which in Southern California counts as flat. Studios average $1,466 for around 558 square feet, one-bedrooms about $1,747 for 682, and two-bedrooms near $2,086 for 910 - and the square footage is part of the pitch, because you get noticeably more space here than for the same money closer to the coast. You can find one-bedrooms under $1,600 a month in Downtown Rialto and the older buildings off Foothill Boulevard and Merrill Avenue, where asking rents start around $1,118, while North Rialto one-bedrooms sit at $1,725 to $1,795 and its two-bedrooms reach $2,395. Just about half of all Rialto rentals fall in the $1,501 to $2,000 band, so anything priced well above it is either brand new or a whole house.

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

  Rialto has no local rent control ordinance and no local just-cause rules, so California's statewide Tenant Protection Act is what governs your lease. It caps annual increases at 5 percent plus regional inflation with a hard 10 percent ceiling, and for the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario area that cap has been 7.5 percent in the current cycle. Two exemptions matter here more than in most cities: buildings under 15 years old are not covered, which leaves the newest north-side complexes outside it, and neither are single-family houses or condos rented out by an individual owner rather than a corporation - and a very large share of Rialto's rental stock is exactly that. Ask in writing whether the unit is covered, because an exempt property has to serve you a specific written notice saying so.

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

  California capped security deposits at one month's rent as of July 2024, so on a $1,747 one-bedroom the deposit should be $1,747 - and that one cap has to absorb pet, cleaning and key deposits too, they cannot be stacked on top of it. The exception you will run into often in Rialto is the small-landlord rule: a natural person owning no more than two residential rental properties totaling four units or fewer may still ask for two months, and a lot of local rentals are individually owned houses. Application screening fees are capped statewide, at $65.86 per applicant for 2026, they have to reflect the landlord's real costs, and you are owed a receipt. After move-out, your itemized statement and any refund are due within 21 days.

• Are there apartments for rent near Rialto's Metrolink station and commute routes?

  The apartment supply sits where the roads and the rail already are. I-10 crosses the south end of the city and SR-210 the north, with I-15 a few minutes west, and the Metrolink San Bernardino Line stops at the depot on South Palm Avenue with roughly hourly weekday service to Los Angeles Union Station. Renting within walking distance of that depot is the whole reason many people pick Rialto over closer-in Los Angeles County, since the one-bedroom rent gap runs well over a thousand dollars a month. If you plan to use buses instead, Omnitrans Route 22 covers Riverside Avenue north to south and Route 14 runs Foothill Boulevard east to west toward Fontana and San Bernardino.

• How does renting an apartment in Rialto compare with Fontana or San Bernardino?

  Rialto sits in the middle of its own neighbors, which is exactly why people search it. Fontana next door is newer and generally runs a bit higher, especially in the North Fontana and Sierra Lakes tracts that keep appearing in the same search results. San Bernardino to the east is cheaper on paper, but the stock is older and the decision there is about specific blocks rather than a citywide average. Bloomington, the unincorporated strip immediately south, is cheaper again and semi-rural, with no rail stop of its own. What Rialto offers that the others do not is a Metrolink station inside the city limits paired with two-bedroom rents still near $2,086 - if you are trading commute time for cost, that is the combination worth looking at first.