The three-bedroom house is the workhorse of the San Antonio rental market. Of the 4,883 homes listed for rent on the San Antonio MLS at the end of September, 2,367 had three bedrooms, nearly half of everything available. So if you want to know what renting here really costs, or what your own three-bedroom should rent for, this is the number to look at.
Across the whole region, the median asking rent for a three-bedroom is $1,695 a month, for a home of about 1,500 square feet. But that single number hides a spread of more than $800 between towns.
Town by town
Median asking rent for a three-bedroom home, with how long the rentals in that town have been listed so far:
- Von Ormy: $1,545 (61 days)
- Converse: $1,595 (38 days)
- Live Oak: $1,620 (46 days)
- Selma: $1,622 (36 days)
- Universal City: $1,650 (35 days)
- New Braunfels: $1,675 (39 days)
- San Antonio: $1,695 (46 days)
- St Hedwig: $1,759 (43 days)
- Schertz: $1,850 (43 days)
- Canyon Lake: $1,888 (56 days)
- Cibolo: $1,895 (38 days)
- Spring Branch: $2,172 (59 days)
- Helotes: $2,200 (40 days)
- Boerne: $2,400 (40 days)
What explains the spread
The northeast corridor is the value play. Converse, Live Oak, Selma and Universal City all sit within about $75 of each other and below the San Antonio median. They are close to JBSA-Randolph and to I-35, the housing stock is largely established subdivisions, and there is a lot of it. Rentals there are also moving among the quickest in the region: Universal City and Selma both show about 35 days.
Schertz and Cibolo cost more for newer homes. Roughly $150 to $200 a month above the city median, in exchange for houses that are often only a few years old. For a renter, that can mean lower utility bills and fewer maintenance calls, which narrows the real difference.
The Hill Country costs the most. Boerne, Helotes and Spring Branch run roughly $480 to $700 a month above the median. These are bigger homes on bigger lots, and in Boerne's case, a school district many families move there for.
Slower towns are where to negotiate. Von Ormy (61 days), Spring Branch (59) and Canyon Lake (56) have rentals that have been waiting longest. If you are flexible on location, those are the places a landlord is most likely to say yes to a lower offer or a move-in concession.
For renters: reading these numbers
A median is the middle of the market, not a ceiling. Half the three-bedrooms in each town are listed for less. What moves a home above or below the median is usually the same handful of things: its age and condition, whether it has a garage and a fenced yard, the school district, and whether the landlord pays any utilities or includes lawn care.
When you compare two homes, compare them by town and by those features, not just by the monthly number. And check how long each has been listed. A home that has sat for two months is one where it costs you nothing to ask.
Browse every rental listed now, with maps and photos, on our rentals page.
For owners: what should yours rent for?
If you own a three-bedroom, the town median is your starting point, not your answer. The quickest way to get closer is to compare your home with the rentals listed right around it, same size and bedrooms. Our rent estimate does exactly that, and gives you a range in seconds.
Pricing within that range on day one matters more than most owners think. Every month a home sits empty costs a full month's rent, and in towns where rentals sit five to nine weeks on the market, the difference between pricing right and pricing hopeful is real money.
*Figures are median asking rents for three-bedroom homes listed on the San Antonio MLS at the end of September 2026, not signed leases. Days are how long the rentals currently listed have been on the market.*