😮‍💨 America’s Least Affordable Cities Going Into 2025

What We’re Showing:

This chart ranks the 25 least affordable of America’s 50 largest cities by average monthly household spending on 10 common bills.

Data is sourced from payment platform Doxo’s annual report tracking household expenditure.

Key Takeaways

America’s least affordable large cities are clustered along the coasts.

California alone has five of them.

But just dollars spent isn’t everything.

By looking at the share of monthly income put towards these bills, (see linked dataset) some cities on the coasts—San Francisco, San Jose, and Seattle—are more affordable than their Midwest counterparts.