Apartments for Rent in Vacaville, CA

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• How many apartments for rent are there in Vacaville, CA?

  Vacaville grew outward in subdivision waves from a small nineteenth-century downtown, so its apartment stock is younger and more scattered than the city's size suggests - pockets off Alamo Drive, Nut Tree Road, Elmira Road and the Leisure Town corridor rather than any dense center. Roomster currently lists 15 apartments for rent around the city, and the pool mixes purpose-built complexes with a substantial number of houses, duplexes and condominiums put up for rent by individual owners. That second category is proportionally larger here than in most cities this size, and it affects both what you can negotiate and which rent rules apply to your lease.

• What does it cost to rent an apartment in Vacaville, CA?

  The citywide average is roughly $2,315, up about 2 percent on the year, so this market is edging upward rather than moving sharply in either direction. One-bedrooms generally run $2,027 to $2,223 for about 700 square feet and two-bedrooms $2,379 to $2,549 for nearer 980, and 46 percent of all local rentals land in the $2,001 to $2,500 band - an unusually tight concentration, which is why anything priced well outside it is worth a second look. You can find one-bedrooms under $1,900 a month around Downtown Vacaville, Southtown and the older complexes off Alamo Drive, where the buildings are 1970s and 1980s vintage, while the newer product near Nut Tree and the north-side tracts sits at the top of the range.

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

  Vacaville has no ordinance of its own, so California's statewide Tenant Protection Act governs - but the figure it produces is set county by county and is worth knowing, because it is not uniform across this region. The cap is 5 percent plus local inflation, and for Solano County that has been 7.7 percent in the current cycle, against 6.3 percent in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco and Marin. Two exemptions decide whether it touches your lease at all: buildings under 15 years old are outside it, and so is a single-family house or condominium owned by an individual rather than a company - which, given how much of Vacaville's supply is precisely that, is a live question rather than a technicality. An exempt landlord must serve you specific written notice, and for a new tenancy it belongs in the lease, so ask for it before you sign.

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

  California limits the security deposit to one month's rent for most landlords, so on a $2,100 one-bedroom that is $2,100 rather than two or three months - and the cap absorbs pet, cleaning and key deposits instead of sitting alongside them. The exception is the small owner: a natural person with no more than two rental properties totaling four units or fewer may still ask two months, and given how many Vacaville rentals are individually owned houses you will run into that exception more here than in a big-complex market. Screening fees are capped statewide at $65.86 per applicant for 2026, must reflect the landlord's actual cost, and come with a receipt. Your itemized statement and any refund are due within 21 days of move-out.

• Are there apartments for rent near Vacaville's train station and I-80?

  Vacaville sits directly on I-80 roughly midway between Sacramento and the East Bay, and that position is why much of the apartment demand exists at all. The rental clusters track the interchanges: Alamo Drive and Merchant Street toward the west end, Nut Tree Road and Leisure Town Road on the east. For rail, the Capitol Corridor's Fairfield-Vacaville Hannigan Station is physically in Vacaville at 4921 Vanden Road despite leading with Fairfield's name, and it opened in 2017 as the line's eighteenth stop - but it is a drive-and-park station on the southern edge, not a walk from any apartment cluster. Vacaville City Coach handles local trips from the Transportation Center. Decide whether you are optimizing for the freeway or the platform before you start touring.

• How does renting an apartment in Vacaville compare with Davis or Dixon?

  Davis, roughly 20 minutes east, is a university city, so rents there are pushed up and the calendar is dictated by UC Davis - excellent if you are affiliated, expensive and turnover-heavy if you are not. Dixon, in between, is smaller and cheaper with very little apartment inventory of any kind and a longer drive to most Solano employers. Fairfield and Suisun City to the south-west price close to Vacaville and share the same freeway, which is why the two cities appear in each other's search results constantly. What Vacaville offers is the largest concentration of steady, non-seasonal employment along this stretch of I-80 paired with rents well below the East Bay - which is exactly the trade most people are making when they land here.