What a roommate can save you in Florida in 2025
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There are bills to pay every month if you want to keep a roof over your head, and the cost for housing is certainly not getting any cheaper. To try to save some money, many people look to share that cost by living with a roommate.

A new report from SmartAsset looked at apartment rents in 100 cities across the U.S. and found where a person could save the most money if they split the rent of a two-bedroom apartment with a roommate versus renting a one-bedroom apartment.

In this report, there were seven Florida cities listed as spots where you could save a good chunk of change if you decided to share your living space.

The city where you could save the most money in Florida by finding a roommate is Miami, where the average person could save roughly $875 a month. In fact, Miami ranked No. 7 in the entire country, just ahead of No. 12 Tampa, where residents can save about $735 a month by finding a roommate instead of living alone.

Further down the list at No. 30 sits Orlando, where a one-bedroom apartment costs $1,520 a month on average and a two-bedroom costs $1,830. If you split that with a roommate, that ends up costing you $915 a month, a $605 savings from living alone.

Here’s the full rankings on how all of the Florida cities in the report from SmartAsset fared:

Rank City Monthly Rent Savings with a Roommate Percent Savings with a Roommate One-Bedroom Rent Two-Bedroom Rent
7 Miami, FL $875 34.3% $2,550 $3,350
12 Tampa, FL $735 44.5% $1,650 $1,830
30 Orlando, FL $605 39.8% $1,520 $1,830
36 Fort Lauderdale, FL $565 29.7% $1,900 $2,670
51 Jacksonville, FL $500 41.7% $1,200 $1,400
52 St Petersburg, FL $490 31.6% $1,550 $2,120
66 Tallahassee, FL $450 40.9% $1,100 $1,300
(Courtesy: SmartAsset)

To see how the rest of the country rounded out, check out SmartAsset’s full rankings right here.

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