Apartments for Rent in Somerville, MA
227 active listings · updated September 4, 2026 · direct from local agencies, agents and owners
227 active listings · updated September 4, 2026 · direct from local agencies, agents and owners
These are live listings from the SomervilleApartments.com database, posted and updated in real time by the agencies, agents and owners who manage the properties. Every listing carries direct contact details — there is no call center in between.
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Averages below are calculated from currently active Somerville listings, not historical survey data, so they move with the market as inventory changes.
Somerville is a city of distinct squares, and rent, commute and character change sharply between them. Each link below opens live listings for that neighborhood.
The best known of the squares and the one that set Somerville's reputation — the Somerville Theatre, restaurants and bars, and a Red Line stop one step from Harvard and two from Porter. Rental stock is mostly two- and three-family houses with apartments above the storefronts, and demand from Tufts students and young professionals keeps it tight year-round.
The part of the city that has changed fastest since the Green Line Extension opened. Union has the restaurants and the nightlife along with a wave of new development, and it is now a direct ride to Lechmere and downtown. Older triple-deckers still make up most of the housing, so it remains one of the better places to find a large shared apartment.
The southern edge of the city, shading into Cambridge. Porter offers Red Line access with slightly lower rents than the Cambridge side of the line, and Spring Hill behind it is quieter and largely residential, with some of the steepest streets and best views in the city.
The Broadway corridor, now served by Green Line Extension stops at Ball Square and Magoun. These neighborhoods carry a lot of the city's classic triple-decker housing and have historically been the most affordable part of Somerville, though the new stations have narrowed that gap.
Teele and West Somerville sit past Davis toward Tufts, dominated by student rentals and multi-family homes. Assembly Square is the opposite end of the spectrum entirely — new mid-rise construction on the Mystic River with its own Orange Line stop, professionally managed buildings and amenities you will not find in the older stock.
Somerville is a landlord's market for most of the year, driven by Harvard, MIT and the Kendall Square employers. The practical consequences are worth knowing before you start.
Somerville is the most densely populated municipality in New England, built almost entirely of two- and three-family houses. That shapes the rental market: most listings are floors of a house rather than units in a building, three- and four-bedroom shares are common, and inventory turns over fast.
Stations at Union Square, East Somerville, Gilman Square, Magoun Square, Ball Square and Medford/Tufts opened parts of the city that were previously bus-dependent. Neighborhoods along the Broadway corridor that were historically the cheapest have seen the sharpest rent movement since, so older price assumptions about Somerville are worth rechecking.
Davis, Union, Assembly and Winter Hill are genuinely different markets at different price points. Use the neighborhood links above rather than searching the whole city at once.
Expect to provide proof of income, references and identification, and to be ready to move quickly on a unit you want. Students without income history are often asked for a guarantor. Because listings here come straight from the agency or owner, questions about requirements can be answered by the person who actually controls the unit.
The Red Line serves Davis and Porter, the Green Line Extension runs through Union Square and up the Broadway corridor to Medford/Tufts, and the Orange Line stops at Assembly. Somerville is compact and highly walkable, and the Community Path connects much of the city by bike. Parking is the constraint: most triple-deckers have little or none, and resident permits are required on nearly every street.
SomervilleApartments.com is showing 227 active Somerville apartments as of September 4, 2026. That count reflects live inventory and changes daily as units are listed and rented.
Across active listings, studios average $2,846, one-bedrooms $2,937, two-bedrooms $3,646, and three-bedroom or larger units $5,246.
Yes. Listings marked no-fee can be filtered directly from the search links on this page, and you contact the landlord or licensed broker from the listing itself.
Every listing includes direct contact details for the agency, agent or owner responsible for the unit, so you can ask questions, arrange a viewing and apply without an intermediary.
Renters priced out of Somerville commonly look at Somerville, Allston, Brighton and Watertown, all of which share transit and are within a short commute.
Somerville is a city of roughly 81,000 residents immediately north of Cambridge, and the most densely populated municipality in New England. It is organised around a series of squares rather than a single downtown — Davis, Union, Porter, Ball, Magoun and Teele — and its housing is overwhelmingly two- and three-family homes, which makes it one of the largest sources of shared and multi-bedroom rentals in Greater Boston.
Useful local references: the City of Somerville, its residential parking permit information, and Walk Score for Somerville.
SomervilleApartments.com has listed Greater Somerville rentals since 1995. Somerville listings come from hundreds of licensed agents, agencies and property owners who update inventory through our own platform, which is why the counts and averages on this page reflect what is genuinely available today rather than a monthly snapshot.