Apartments Near Kelley: Where Business Students Actually Live

Kelley School of Business students run on a different clock than the rest of Indiana University Bloomington. Recruiting starts before the first exam, case competition prep gets scheduled at 7:30 a.m. because that is the only hour five people are free, and Hodge Hall sits on the north side of campus along East 10th Street rather than in the middle of the student rental belt. That geography is the whole reason searching for apartments near Kelley turns into a scheduling problem instead of an amenity checklist. The question is not whether a place has a gym. It is whether you will actually make a 9:05 a.m. section on foot when it is 19 degrees, the sidewalk is glazed, and the hill up from downtown has not been salted. This post works through what is currently on the market, what the real prices are, and how they compare to what students in Bloomington report paying.

Begin your search at Off-Campus Universe, where you can browse current listings near Bloomington, IN with the asking rent, the bed and bath count, and a rough distance from campus on every record. Using one place to compare is worth more than it sounds here, because Bloomington rents get quoted inconsistently: some landlords post a per-person figure, some post the whole unit, and the same building can appear both ways within a week. Seeing the listings side by side is how you catch that before it costs you.

Four listings were sourced for this post, and the useful benchmark to measure them against is the median rent students in Bloomington report paying: $800 per person per month. Spring 2027 Sublease — Station 11 — Male is posted at $1000 /Month as a 1bd/1ba sublease recorded at under five minutes from Indiana. With one bedroom there is nobody to split with, so the per-person cost is the full $1,000 a month, roughly $200 above that median. Fully Furnished 3BR/2.5BA Townhouse – Qu is listed at $1900 /Month for 3bd/2.5ba at five to ten minutes out, recorded as 17% off $2,300. Split three ways that is about $633 per person, the lowest per-person number in this set and roughly $167 under the median.

Clark Street Duplexes asks $2985 /Month for 3bd/3ba at under five minutes from campus, which works out to $995 each with three people, about $195 per person over the median in exchange for everyone getting their own bathroom. Magnolia Park Apartment Homes needs a closer read before you put it in a spreadsheet. It is recorded at $1400 /Month with a bed and bath field of 2bd (Private Room)/2ba, and that pairing can be taken two ways. If $1,400 is the rent for one private room, then your cost is $1,400 a month, $600 over the median and the most expensive line here. If $1,400 is the whole two-bedroom and two people split it, that is $700 each, which lands under the median. Those readings differ by a factor of two, so do not budget off either one: ask the leasing office in writing whether the number covers a single bedroom or the entire apartment, and get the answer before any deposit changes hands. One more limit worth stating plainly. None of these records include a street address, so nothing in this data supports calling any of them a short walk to Hodge Hall specifically. The distances above are to campus in general, and IU's campus is close to two miles across. Pull the actual address from the landlord and time the walk yourself before you decide.

Bloomington Neighborhoods, Ranked by the Walk You Actually Get

The rental map in Bloomington is not symmetrical, and the north-side buildings are not where most of the student inventory sits. Downtown, along Kirkwood Avenue and around the Sample Gates, is the densest concentration of student apartments and the easiest place to find a lease, but the approach to the north side of campus is a genuine uphill grade and adds real minutes in January. The Old Northeast blocks along North Dunn, North Woodlawn and Cottage Grove sit closer to the 10th Street end of campus and are mostly converted houses and small buildings, which means fewer units and faster turnover. Elm Heights and Bryan Park, southeast and south of campus off East Third Street and South Henderson, are quieter and often cheaper per bedroom, but they orient toward the south end of campus. The College Mall Road corridor to the east and the newer complexes along the bypass are where the pool-and-parking-garage buildings are, and they are honest about being a bus commute. If you land in any of those, Bloomington Transit and the IU Campus Bus routes are the backup plan, and the B-Line Trail is the flattest walking route through downtown. Whatever you sign, check the hill and the bus stop on a cold weekday morning, not on a sunny Saturday tour.

Apartments Near Kelley: Pricing the February Walk and the 8 A.M. Section

Here is the tradeoff nobody writes on the listing page. Most of the cheapest per-person options in Bloomington are cheap partly because they are farther out or need more roommates, and both of those cost you time on the exact mornings you can least afford it.

The $633 per person townhouse in the sourced set is $167 under the median, but it is recorded at five to ten minutes from campus rather than under five, and three people sharing two and a half baths at 7 a.m. during recruiting week is a scheduling constraint, not a rounding error. When you evaluate apartments near Kelley, price the commute as a real line item: if a $150-a-month cheaper place turns into a bus transfer or a parking permit you have to buy, you have not actually saved $150. Parking is the specific trap here, since it runs hot in Bloomington student conversations for good reason. An off-street spot is frequently a separate monthly charge, and an IU campus permit is a separate purchase again, so a place that is technically walkable but that you will drive from in winter can quietly cost more than the closer unit you passed on. Work out the all-in number, then decide.

Four Things to Settle Before You Sign in Bloomington

• Lock down the lease dates in writing. Bloomington's standard cycle runs roughly August to August, so anything starting mid-year is a sublease or a takeover with its own end date. Ask for the exact start and end days, what happens over winter break, and whether the rent is prorated for a partial month.

• Ask whether the quoted rent is per person or for the whole unit, and get that answer in an email. This is the single most common way a Bloomington budget goes wrong, and one of the four listings above is a live example of the ambiguity.

• Settle parking before the tour ends. Find out whether a spot is included, what it costs monthly if it is not, whether it is assigned or first-come, and whether street parking in that neighborhood needs a city permit. Add all of it to the rent figure.

• Confirm the laundry setup and who pays for utilities. In-unit laundry is one of the things Bloomington students ask about most, and shared-basement laundry is a very different arrangement. While you are there, ask which utilities are included, what the deposit is, and what the landlord's winter maintenance response time looks like.

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