CITRUS HEIGHTS, CA (MPG) - Currently, the overall median rent in the city stands at $1,663, after rising 0.7% last month. Prices remain down 0.2% year-over-year. Read on to learn more about what’s been happening in the Citrus Heights rental market and how it compares to trends throughout the broader Sacramento metro area.

The median rent in Citrus Heights rose by 0.7% over the course of March and has now decreased by a total of 0.2% over the past 12 months. Citrus Heights’s rent growth over the past year is similar to both the state (-1.0%) and national averages (-0.8%).

Three months into the year, rents in Citrus Heights have risen 0.7%. This is a similar rate of growth compared to what the city was experiencing at this point last year: from January to March 2023 rents had increased 0.5%.

If we expand our view to the wider Sacramento metro area, the median rent is $1,735, meaning that the median price in Citrus Heights ($1,663) is 4.2% lower than the price across the metro as a whole. Metro-wide annual rent growth stands at 0.1%, above the rate of rent growth within just the city.

Rocklin is currently the most expensive, with a median rent of $2,416. Sacramento is the metro’s most affordable city, with a median rent of $1,644. The metro's fastest annual rent growth is occurring in Roseville (3.8%) while the slowest is in Sacramento (-1.6%).