Apartments for Rent in Culver City, CA

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

  Culver City packs an unusual amount of apartment stock into a small footprint. Of roughly 18,600 housing units, about 7,759 sit in buildings of five units or more and 5,266 in buildings of twenty or more, which is a far denser profile than the single-family Westside neighborhoods around it. Supply is also looser than it has been in years: 538 units were counted vacant and available for rent, close to a 6 percent rental vacancy rate, and asking rents have been falling rather than climbing. Roomster is carrying 40 listings for the area, heaviest in Fox Hills and along Washington and Sepulveda, with Downtown and the Arts District thinner and pricier.

• How much does it cost to rent an apartment in Culver City?

  Sitting tenants and new arrivals live in different markets here. Households already in place pay a median gross rent of about $2,737, working out near $1,803 for a studio, $2,437 for a one-bedroom and $2,880 for a two-bedroom. What is being advertised today averages $3,417, down about 5.4 percent from $3,613 a year ago, with one-bedrooms near $3,139 for around 845 square feet and two-bedrooms near $3,790 for around 1,175. You can still find apartments for rent under $2,800 in Fox Hills, where the neighborhood average is about $2,668 and studios run near $2,127, and along Washington Culver and Jefferson. Downtown and the blocks by the Culver Steps sit at the top of the range.

• Is there rent control on apartments for rent in Culver City?

  Yes, and unlike most cities on this side of Los Angeles it is Culver City's own, not the county's. The permanent Rent Control Ordinance took effect on October 30, 2020 and covers buildings of two or more units with a certificate of occupancy on or before February 1, 1995. Single-family homes, condominiums, townhomes, anything newer than that date, and subsidized units are exempt. For a covered unit the annual increase is tied to CPI with a floor of 2 percent and a ceiling of 5 percent, and an owner may raise the rent only once in any 12-month period; from July 1, 2026 the Annual Maximum Permissible Rent is published once a year rather than monthly. The practical move is simple: ask for the year of the certificate of occupancy before you sign. In a city where so much of the stock is newer mid-rise, the gap between a 1994 building and a 1996 building is the difference between a capped rent and an open one.

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

  The deposit is capped statewide at one month's rent, with a narrow exception letting an individual owner who holds no more than two rental properties totaling four units ask for two, and servicemembers capped at one month regardless. The local layer is the part worth knowing about, because it gives you a question no aggregator will prompt you to ask: Culver City requires every rental unit to be registered with the city each year, with a deadline of 31 July and a per-unit fee. Asking whether the unit is currently registered is a quick read on how carefully the building is run. There is no tenant-paid broker commission in Los Angeles County, so treat a demand for one as a warning sign, and an application screening fee is limited to the owner's actual cost with any unused portion refunded.

• Are there apartments for rent near the E Line and Culver CityBus routes?

  This is the strongest argument for renting in Culver City rather than around it. The Metro E Line station at 8817 Washington Boulevard puts Downtown Los Angeles and Santa Monica on one ride, and it is a genuine interchange, with Big Blue Bus, Culver CityBus, LADOT Commuter Express and Metro buses all meeting there. On top of that the city runs its own operator: Culver CityBus, the second oldest municipal bus line in California, founded in 1928, now 10 local routes plus a Rapid, about 56 buses and roughly 11,000 weekday riders. Downtown Culver City scores 90 for walkability, so an apartment in that pocket or in Washington Culver is one of the few places on the Westside where skipping a car is realistic rather than aspirational.

• Will the new Fox Hills apartment buildings bring rents down?

  They are already part of why rents here are softer than they were. Five residential projects are planned for Fox Hills south of Slauson Avenue, together adding close to 3,000 homes to a neighborhood that is a fraction of the city's area, which is a large amount of new supply for a place of 40,000 people. Combined with a Westside employment base that has been shrinking rather than growing, that pipeline is the backdrop to the roughly 5 percent fall in asking rents over the past year. For anyone hunting apartments for rent today the practical implication is leverage: in a market with vacancies to fill, ask about a free month, a longer fixed term at today's figure, or parking folded into the rent, all of which owners here are currently more willing to discuss.