{"id":705,"date":"2021-06-21T09:20:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T09:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.renthop.com\/content-manager\/?post_type=studies&p=14128"},"modified":"2023-07-22T15:30:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T15:30:32","slug":"rents-drop-at-60-of-washington-dc-metro-stops-including-metro-center-and-nationals-ballpark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.renthop.com\/research\/rents-drop-at-60-of-washington-dc-metro-stops-including-metro-center-and-nationals-ballpark\/","title":{"rendered":"Rents Drop at 60% of Washington DC Metro Stops, Including Metro Center and Nationals Ballpark"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Washington DC’s Metrorail has seen a lot of changes in recent months. Service hours were extended to midnight, wait times between rides have decreased and fares were reduced to serve lower-income workers.<\/p>\n

It’s all part of an effort to draw riders back to public transit. Normally, Metrorail would serve more than 600,000 customers a day. That number plummeted during the Covid-19 pandemic, which saw most commuters stay home to comply with social distancing measures.<\/p>\n

Even as pandemic restrictions ease, riders have signaled they plan to continue cutting back on commuting and, as a result, rents are dropping<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Prior to the pandemic, Metro proximity was one of the first things renters considered when searching for an apartment. And the closer you were to a metro stop, the more expensive your apartment is.<\/p>\n

That’s not necessarily the case anymore.<\/p>\n

RentHop data scientist Shane Lee mapped out rental prices for one-bedroom apartments by Metrorail stop. Here\u2019s what she discovered for the period of March 1, 2021 to May 31, 2021:<\/p>\n