🌟 America’s Most Affordable Cities Going Into 2025

What We’re Showing:

This chart ranks the 25 most 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 most affordable large cities are clustered in the Midwest and Great Lakes Region.

But just dollars spent isn’t everything, (check out the linked dataset). Income matters as well.

By looking at the share of monthly income put towards these bills, new patterns emerge. 

For example, Detroit households spent nearly half of their monthly income on these bills, far more than Fort Worth households (37%).