Apartments for Rent in Aquarena Springs & Post Road San Marcos, TX
The belt of purpose-built student housing running northeast from campus along Aquarena Springs Drive and Post Road, and by a wide margin the largest concentration of rental inventory in San Marcos. Almost everything here leases by the bed rather than by the apartment, and that is the single most important thing to know before you compare a price to anywhere else in town. Furnished units, roommate matching and August lease starts are the norm, and so is a shuttle to campus. If you are not a student this is still worth a look in the summer, when operators get realistic about unfilled beds.
32
Communities Tracked
$700
Starting At
$737
Average Rent
32
communities tracked, 11 priced
$700
cheapest starting rent today
$799
median starting rent
9
running a move in special
Deal tracking: 64% of priced communities in Aquarena Springs & Post Road are running a move-in special, averaging 5.9 weeks free, up from 35% a month ago. 3 communities have cut starting rent in the last two weeks.
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Ross's picks: the best deals in Aquarena Springs & Post Road right now
The strongest value in each building class, ranked by real monthly cost: the current special applied to a twelve month lease, per square foot. Refreshed with our daily price checks, so these picks change when the pricing does.
Class A · Newest buildings, most amenities
Class B · The solid mid tier
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See Deals on the MapProgram homes below: check the income caps first
The communities in these lists lease program homes by household income. Your gross household income must fall UNDER the cap for your household size and the home's tier (HUD 2025 limits). Most program homes use the 60 percent tier; a good number of communities offer homes at the 80 percent tier, with the higher caps:
Earn more than the 80 percent cap for your household size and the application is denied at every home here, the market picks above are yours. Earn between the two caps and the 80 percent tier homes are your fit. A few homes sit at lower tiers with lower caps. Each card below names the community's lowest tier, and every community verifies your exact tier at application.
Ross's picks: income restricted
Every home income capped. Our Class A luxury pick leads, then the best of each class by real monthly cost per square foot, refreshed with our daily price checks.
#1 Country Oaks
from $910
Class C+ · 1 bed to 3 bed · 1951 Aquarena Springs Dr.
4.3 weeks free running now: from $834/mo net effective
Get today's pricing and availability11 are within a walkable mile of a full grocery store. See all of Aquarena Springs & Post Road on the live map.
Data reviewed by Ross Quade, Licensed Apartment Locator (TREC #679806)How we get our dataprices from our daily rent tracking
The Aquarena Springs & Post Road market, by building class
Median starting rents and the deal climate for each class of community here, computed 11/07 from our daily price checks. Class A median down $98 since 10/10.
SanMarcosApartments.com rent ledger, updated daily from apartment data we buy and our own research.
Move-in specials from apartment data we buy, pulled daily, or from older undated notes on our community lists.
Class A is the newest stock with the most amenities; Class B the solid mid tier; Class C the oldest buildings and lowest prices.
Data reviewed by Ross Quade, Licensed Apartment Locator (TREC #679806)How we get our dataseries banked daily since August 2026
Apartments in Aquarena Springs & Post Road
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These are our picks, and we're paid a fee by many of them when someone leases. Everything below is ordered by the deal math, not by that.
Every community we track in Aquarena Springs & Post Road
Starting rents from our latest check. Communities with a full review are linked.
- 109 West · from $549
- Aqua 16 · from $795
- Arise San Marcos · from $999
- Autumn Chase · from $929
- Axis
- College Town · from $500
- Copper Beech Townhomes · from $545
- Country Oaks · from $910
- El Monty · from $725
- Elevation On Post · from $550
- Lodge
- Millennium on Post · from $599
- Mosscliff
- Oaks 35 · from $595
- Post Oak Villas
- Ranch At 1856 · from $779
- River Oaks Villas · from $920
- Stadium View · from $729
- Tapestry at Aquarena Springs · from $686
- The Arba At San Marcos
- The Colony of San Marcos · from $700
- The Grove at San Marcos
- The Mirage
- The Oasis
- The Outpost San Marcos · from $669
- The Summit
- The Thompson · from $649
- Union San Marcos · from $892
- Village Green · from $959
- Village on Telluride · from $799
- Villagio
- Westfield
Drive times are one reading with live traffic, taken Tuesday 8:30 AM Central and last measured 2026-09-09. They are not a live lookup and not a weekly average. Leaving at 5pm will run longer. How we get our data.