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It’s more expensive to rent an apartment in a suburb known only for the Butterfly Pavilion and plutonium contamination than it is to rent in Denver.
The median rent of a one-bedroom home in Westminster was $1,620 last month, according to Zumper’s analysis of active listings released on March 2. That’s the second-most expensive of any metro city in the state, beating even Denver, which had a median rent of $1,600.
The only city with higher rent prices than Westminster was Boulder, with a median rent of $1,760, according to the report.
Statewide, the median rent price for a one-bedroom home was $1,437 last month, according to the report. Denver metro cities with the cheapest rents in the state were Englewood ($1,150) and Thornton ($1,200), while prices are slightly cheaper up north in Greeley ($1,000).
Westminster’s median one-bedroom rent is slightly lower today than it was this time last year. However, the suburb experienced one of the smallest year-over-year price drops in the state, at just 3.6 percent. Rent prices fell more significantly in cities like Denver, which saw a 7.5 percent decrease.
Denver’s median one-bedroom rent price was as high as $1,900 in July 2024, according to Zumper. During that same period, one-bedroom rentals in Westminster cost around $1,775.
But since then, Denver’s rent prices have been on a near-continuous decline. Denver even had the nation’s largest monthly drop in rent prices in December when compared to other major metropolitan areas, according to Zillow’s rental market report released in January. (Home prices in Denver have also fallen over the past year, according to a recent report from Realtor.com, dropping 1.3 percent on an annual basis in February.)
Meanwhile, Westminster’s rental costs have fluctuated, eventually surpassing the infamously pricey Denver. Westminster’s median one-bedroom rent price peaked at around $1,860 at the end of 2025.
Westminster’s median rent of $1,620 last month was $420 higher than in the neighboring city of Thornton, $220 higher than in Arvada, and around $70 higher than in Broomfield, according to Zumper.
