USC Columbia apartments in Five Points: the walk-home district

Five Points is a Columbia neighborhood and commercial district on the edge of the University of South Carolina campus. If you are searching for USC Columbia apartments in Five Points or nearby, this guide sticks to what we can actually show you: current listings on our site, what each one says about price, size and lease terms, and what students in Columbia have been quoting in their own housing posts. Every listing mentioned here is on our Columbia off-campus listings page, along with the rest of what is currently available.

One thing to say upfront. The title of this post calls Five Points a walk-home district, but we do not have walk times for any listing, and we are not going to estimate them. Our listings carry a Distance by Car field instead, and that is the figure we use below. If walking home matters to you, map the route yourself before you sign anything.

Begin your search at Off-Campus Universe, where you can browse current listings near Columbia.

Right now you can check out real listings near Columbia, including Station at Five Points at $809/month, Gervais Near Five Points / USC at $2,000/month, 2 Bedroom 2 Bath Condo at $1,600/month, Sublease at Sawyer on Lincoln at $1,139/month, and 1819 Greene at $2,505/month.

What These Columbia Listings Show

Two of these listings name Five Points in their titles. Station at Five Points is a furnished four-bedroom, four-bathroom listing at $809/month, listed as a sublease with a timing of August to July and a Distance by Car of five to ten minutes. Gervais Near Five Points / USC is a five-bedroom, two-bathroom house listed at $2,000/month, unfurnished, marked as rent by room with the room type listed as a private room, on a nine-month lease starting 10/1/2026, with a Distance by Car of under five minutes.

Our listings do not carry a neighborhood tag, so beyond what a title says, we cannot tell you which listings sit inside Five Points itself. Ask any lister for the exact address and look it up before you decide. That matters here, because a listing title is written by the lister and is not a boundary check.

The other three listings add some range. 2 Bedroom 2 Bath Condo is an unfurnished two-bedroom, two-bathroom listing at $1,600/month on a year lease (12 months) starting 8/1/2026, with a Distance by Car of under five minutes. Sublease at Sawyer on Lincoln is a furnished one-bedroom, one-bathroom listing at $1,139/month, listed as a sublease, also under five minutes by car. 1819 Greene is an unfurnished three-bedroom, one-bathroom listing at $2,505/month on a year lease starting 8/1/2026, again under five minutes by car.

Read the prices carefully before comparing them. Gervais Near Five Points / USC is the only one of the five marked as rent by room, so ask the lister whether $2,000 is the price of one room or the whole house. For the others, ask the same question anyway. A listing price can mean one bedroom in a shared unit or a whole apartment, and the listing alone does not always make that clear.

A word on the Distance by Car field, since it is the closest thing to a commute figure we have. It comes in bands such as under five minutes, five to ten minutes, and more than ten minutes. It says nothing about parking, traffic, bus routes or what the walk is like, so treat it as a rough first filter. Once a listing makes your shortlist, check the actual trip from its address to the buildings where your classes meet, at the hours you would really be travelling.

USC Columbia Apartments in Five Points: What Students Are Posting

Student housing posts are another source you will run into while researching USC Columbia apartments in Five Points, so it helps to know what they have actually been saying. These posts cover Columbia generally, not Five Points specifically. Across the 46 student posts we reviewed from a Columbia student housing group for Oct 5-12, 2026, the median rent people quoted was $995 per person. That is a figure from student posts, not from our listings, and it is not a market rate. It is a useful sense of what students in that group were asking or offering that week, nothing more.

Those same posts point to the questions students are working through. Posts tied to a specific term, such as spring, fall or a single semester, made up 59% of the posts, 43 points above the usual level. Sublease and lease takeover posts were also 59%, 12 points above usual. Posts mentioning a pool or gym made up 35%, and roommate searches made up 41%. In plain terms, term-specific housing and subleases were each a large share of that week's posts, and roommate searches were not far behind.

The floor plans students named line up with that. Four-bedroom layouts came up 13 times, five-bedroom layouts 7 times, two-bedroom layouts 6 times, townhouses 4 times, and both “4x4” and studios 3 times each. Four- and five-bedroom layouts were the most often named, which is worth keeping in mind when you compare a per-room price with a whole-unit price.

If you are weighing a sublease from one of those posts against a listing on our site, compare like with like: the same lease length, the same number of bedrooms, and a clear answer on whether the price is per room or for the whole unit. Do not compare a per-person figure from a student post with a whole-unit listing price; they measure different things.

Tips for Renting Near Five Points

• Ask every lister for the exact street address and look it up yourself, rather than relying on a title that mentions Five Points.

• Map the walk or ride from the address to your classes at the time of day you would make the trip, since our listings give a Distance by Car band, not a walk time.

• For any sublease or lease takeover, ask to see the original lease, confirm whether the landlord or property manager must approve the transfer, and find out who holds the deposit.

• Confirm in writing whether a price is per room or for the whole unit, and what it includes, such as utilities, internet, parking or furniture.

  
  

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