Price data
How much does a 5x5 storage unit cost?
The 5x5 is the smallest unit Public Storage rents, and the dearest per square foot at $1.40. The median is $35 a month; the cheapest tenth of 3,595 locations go under $12.
| Measure | Online rate | Regular rate |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest tenth of locations | $12 | $18 |
| Lower quartile | $20 | $30 |
| Median | $35 | $53 |
| Upper quartile | $57 | $86 |
| Dearest tenth | $88 | $132 |
What fits in a 5x5
25 square feet, roughly a large closet. Cartons, a bicycle, seasonal decorations, a chest of drawers. At the median online rate that is $1.40 a square foot.
Cheapest markets for a 5x5
4 of the ten cheapest 5x5 markets sit in Florida: Venice, Fort Myers, Naples and Bradenton. Venice, FL undercuts all of them at $9, 74% below the national median.
| Market | Locations | Median | vs national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venice, FL | 8 | $9 | -74% |
| Fort Myers, FL | 17 | $10 | -71% |
| Lawrenceville, GA | 34 | $11 | -69% |
| Fort Worth, TX | 55 | $14 | -60% |
| Colorado Springs, CO | 27 | $14 | -60% |
| Greenville, SC | 8 | $14 | -60% |
| Webster, TX | 21 | $14 | -60% |
| Naples, FL | 9 | $14 | -60% |
Most expensive markets
Los Angeles, CA tops the table at $115, 12.8× the Venice figure, and none of that is about the 5x5. Brownsville, TX is: an otherwise inexpensive place to store anything, it asks 72% over its own level for this one size. Tulsa does the same by 48% and Greensboro by 39%, while Fort Pierce, FL goes the other way at 55% under and Frisco by 51%.
| Market | Locations | Median | vs national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, CA | 137 | $115 | +229% |
| Honolulu, HI | 15 | $96 | +174% |
| San Diego, CA | 18 | $89 | +154% |
| Brooklyn, NY | 33 | $88 | +151% |
| San Francisco, CA | 48 | $88 | +151% |
| San Juan, PR | 9 | $86 | +146% |
| Irvine, CA | 48 | $79 | +126% |
| San Dimas, CA | 8 | $78 | +123% |
Is a 5x5 the right size?
Nothing smaller is rented. A door, a lock, a slice of corridor and the staff time to let it cost the same on 25 square feet as on 300, so a 5x5 carries the dearest floor in the range at $1.40. Doubling into a 5x10 adds $20 a month and cuts that rate to $1.10. Availability is not the constraint here: Patchogue, NY puts one in 100% of its 22 branches.
| Size | Sq ft | Median online | Per sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5x5 | 25 | $35 | $1.40 |
| 5x10 | 50 | $55 | $1.10 |
| 5x15 | 75 | $78 | $1.04 |
| 10x10 | 100 | $95 | $0.95 |
| 10x15 | 150 | $123 | $0.82 |
| 10x20 | 200 | $150 | $0.75 |
| 10x25 | 250 | $168 | $0.67 |
| 10x30 | 300 | $221 | $0.74 |
Online rate vs regular rate. Every listing publishes two figures and the regular rate is 1.5× the online rate at the median. That is a pricing rule, not a second quote. Figures here are the online rate (the promotional price for booking on the web) unless labelled otherwise. Budget on the regular rate.
Advertised rates for new rentals, not quotes; they move with availability. Insurance, admin fees and limited-time offers are excluded. This covers Public Storage only. Other operators do not publish per-location pricing in a form that can be read. Not affiliated with Public Storage.