Price data

How much does a 5x15 storage unit cost?

The 5x15 is hard to find: only 2,483 locations stock one, about 56% as many as carry the most common size. Where it exists the median is $78, with the cheapest tenth under $37.

What fits in a 5x15

75 square feet, roughly a large garden shed. A studio stripped of its white goods: bedframe, bookcases, a desk. At the median online rate that is $1.04 a square foot.

That much is industry guidance; no listing records what was stored.

Cheapest markets for a 5x15

Georgia supplies three of the ten lowest medians (Lawrenceville, Fayetteville and Atlanta), but Huntsville, AL beats them, and every other one of the 78 markets with enough branches to report a 5x15, at $19.

Most expensive markets

Los Angeles, CA leads at $229, 12.1× the Huntsville figure, but that is the country talking rather than this size. Across the 91 markets reporting a full ladder, none prices a 5x15 more than 17% away from its own level for other sizes (Vallejo, CA and Sacramento over; Lawrenceville, GA and Huntsville under).

Is a 5x15 the right size?

The shortest price step anywhere on this ladder starts here: a 10x10 is $17 more a month for 33% more floor. It is also far the more common unit, at 4,417 branches against 2,483 stocking a 5x15 — and the gap is local rather than uniform, from 30% of 37 branches in Ocala, FL up to 89% in Brooklyn, NY.