Comparative Study of Rent Prices in Relation to Cost of Living - Jan. 31, 2023

Our comparative study focuses on rent prices in relation to the cost of living, providing valuable insights into the financial implications of housing expenses. By examining the relationship between rent and the overall cost of living, we help you make informed decisions about your housing budget and understand the affordability of different locations.

In January 2021, San Francisco ranked first in the study, indicating relatively higher rent prices in comparison to the cost of living. New York secured the second position, followed by Hamilton in third place. On the other hand, Patna, Bhubaneswar, and Peshawar ranked lower, suggesting relatively lower rent prices in comparison to the cost of living in those areas.

By January 2022, San Francisco maintained its first position in the comparative study, suggesting higher rent prices relative to the cost of living. New York remained in the second position, while Hamilton climbed to the third spot. Jammu, Multan, and Peshawar ranked lower on the index, indicating relatively lower rent prices compared to the cost of living.

In January 2023, New York claimed the first position in the study, suggesting higher rent prices relative to the cost of living. Hamilton maintained its second position, while Santa Barbara secured the third spot. Bhopal, Multan, and Peshawar ranked lower, indicating relatively lower rent prices in relation to the cost of living in those areas.

Understanding the comparative study of rent prices in relation to the cost of living allows you to assess the affordability of different locations. It assists in determining whether the rental prices align with your budget and financial goals, helping you make well-informed decisions when choosing a place to live.

Jan 31, 2023 Index
1st
  New York
100
2nd
  Hamilton
96.1
3rd
  Santa Barbara
92.9
4th
  San Francisco
92.4
5th
  Singapore
85.3
6th
  Sharjah
78.4
7th
  San Diego
76.2
8th
  Boston
75.7
9th
  Oakland
75.2
10th
  George Town
74.3
11th
  Los Angeles
74.1
12th
  San Jose
73.9
13th
  Irvine
72.7
14th
  Miami
71.9
15th
  Washington
69.1
16th
  Seattle
68
17th
  Geneva
67.2
18th
  Austin
66.4
19th
  Hong Kong
66.3
20th
  Zug
65.6
21st
  London
63.8
22nd
  Fort Lauderdale
63
23rd
  Zurich
61.8
24th
  Honolulu
61.6
25th
  Dublin
60.7
26th
  Raleigh
59.6
27th
  Nashville
59.5
28th
  Charlotte
59.3
29th
  Tampa
59.2
30th
  Chicago
58.4
31st
  Lagos
56
32nd
  Denver
55.2
33rd
  Lausanne
53.6
34th
  Saint Helier
53.3
35th
  Sydney
53.2
36th
  Dallas
52.9
37th
  Sacramento
52.5
38th
  Vancouver
51.7
39th
  Doha
51.5
40th
  Luxembourg
51.2
40th
  Atlanta
51.2
41st
  Portland
51.1
42nd
  Orlando
50.7
43rd
  Philadelphia
49.2
44th
  Amsterdam
48.7
45th
  Phoenix
48.4
46th
  Baltimore
48.3
47th
  Minneapolis
47.8
48th
  San Juan
47.7
49th
  Tel Aviv-Yafo
47.6
50th
  Toronto
47.3
51st
  Dubai
46.9
51st
  Canberra
46.9
52nd
  Nagoya
46.8
53rd
  Markham
46.5
53rd
  Guildford
46.5
54th
  Basel
46
55th
  Copenhagen
45.8
55th
  Wellington
45.8
56th
  Salt Lake City
45.2
57th
  New Orleans
45.1
57th
  Reno
45.1
58th
  Fresno
44.8
59th
  Houston
44.7
60th
  Boise
44.6
61st
  Madison
43.9
61st
  Victoria
43.9
62nd
  Paris
43.7
63rd
  Brighton
43.3
63rd
  Abu Dhabi
43.3
64th
  Cambridge
43.2
65th
  Oxford
43.1
66th
  Fort Worth
43
67th
  Mississauga
42.9
68th
  Haarlem
42.4
69th
  Nassau
42.2
70th
  Columbus
41.9
71st
  Albuquerque
41.7
72nd
  San Antonio
41.6
73rd
  Brisbane
41.5
74th
  Munich
41.4
75th
  Anchorage
40.9
75th
  Spokane
40.9
76th
  Kansas City
40.7
76th
  Cork
40.7
77th
  Las Vegas
40.4
77th
  Limassol
40.4
78th
  Cincinnati
40
78th
  Auckland
40
79th
  Milan
39.8
80th
  Adelaide
39.6
81st
  Perth
39.4
82nd
  Reykjavik
39.1
82nd
  Cleveland
39.1
83rd
  Oslo
38.8
84th
  Colorado Springs
38.7
85th
  Berlin
38.3
86th
  Galway
38.2
86th
  Jacksonville
38.2
87th
  London
38.1
87th
  Pittsburgh
38.1
88th
  Melbourne
38
88th
  Gold Coast
38
89th
  Oklahoma City
37.9
89th
  Chattanooga
37.9
90th
  Detroit
37.8
91st
  Bern
37.6
91st
  Birmingham
37.6
92nd
  Milwaukee
37.5
93rd
  Indianapolis
37.4
94th
  Kelowna
37.1
95th
  Surrey
36.9
96th
  Utrecht
36.8
97th
  Shanghai
36.6
98th
  Stockholm
36.5
99th
  Ramat Gan
36.1
100th
  Memphis
35.8
101st
  Bristol
35.6
102nd
  Buffalo
35.5
103rd
  Kingston
35.1
103rd
  Brampton
35.1
104th
  Limerick
35
104th
  Beijing
35
105th
  Reading
34.9
106th
  Valletta
34.8
106th
  Frankfurt
34.8
106th
  Nanaimo
34.8
107th
  Hamilton
34.7
107th
  Rotterdam
34.7
108th
  Ottawa
34.5
109th
  Saint Louis
34.3
110th
  Jerusalem
34.2
111th
  Knoxville
33.9
111th
  Kitchener
33.9
111th
  Seoul
33.9
112th
  Tucson
33.7
113th
  Tokyo
33.5
114th
  Macao
33.2
114th
  Hamburg
33.2
115th
  Breda
32.9
116th
  Lisbon
32.7
117th
  Halifax
32.5
117th
  Edinburgh
32.5
117th
  Cascais
32.5
118th
  Kamloops
32.4
119th
  Rome
32.3
119th
  Calgary
32.3
120th
  Eindhoven
32.1
121st
  Bournemouth
31.5
122nd
  Nijmegen
31.2
122nd
  Tromso
31.2
123rd
  Helsinki
31.1
123rd
  Louisville
31.1
124th
  Arhus
31
125th
  Trondheim
30.9
125th
  Manchester
30.9
125th
  Espoo
30.9
125th
  Bergen
30.9
126th
  Bonn
30.8
127th
  Cardiff
30.6
128th
  Freiburg im Breisgau
30.4
128th
  The Hague (Den Haag)
30.4
129th
  Dusseldorf
30.3
129th
  Maastricht
30.3
129th
  Omaha
30.3
130th
  Stavanger
30.1
131st
  Birmingham
30
132nd
  Barcelona
29.9
133rd
  Stuttgart
29.8
134th
  Windsor
29.7
135th
  Madrid
29.5
135th
  Brussels
29.5
136th
  Heidelberg
29.4
137th
  Montreal
29.2
138th
  Netanya
29.1
139th
  Christchurch
29
139th
  Norwich
29
140th
  Delft
28.5
140th
  Exeter
28.5
141st
  Sliema
28.4
142nd
  Portsmouth
28.3
143rd
  Nice
28.2
144th
  Newcastle upon Tyne
28.1
144th
  Kuwait City
28.1
145th
  Southampton
27.9
146th
  Innsbruck
27.7
147th
  Cologne
27.5
148th
  Makati
27.4
148th
  Leeds
27.4
149th
  Suzhou
27.2
150th
  Prague
27.1
151st
  Petah Tikva
27
152nd
  Salzburg
26.9
153rd
  Odense
26.8
153rd
  Glasgow
26.8
153rd
  Manama
26.8
154th
  Vienna
26.5
155th
  Bilbao
26.3
156th
  Male
26.2
156th
  Hamilton
26.2
157th
  Enschede
25.9
157th
  Moscow
25.9
158th
  Sheffield
25.6
159th
  Yerevan
25.5
159th
  Florence
25.5
160th
  Liverpool
25.4
160th
  Gothenburg
25.4
161st
  Belfast
25.2
162nd
  Larnaca
25.1
163rd
  Edmonton
25
163rd
  Nottingham
25
164th
  Winnipeg
24.7
164th
  Gent
24.7
164th
  Palma de Mallorca
24.7
165th
  Bologna
24.5
166th
  Plymouth
24.4
166th
  Panama City
24.4
167th
  Yangon
24.2
168th
  Warsaw
24.1
168th
  Murcia
24.1
169th
  Leuven
24
169th
  Red Deer
24
170th
  Antwerp
23.9
171st
  Leicester
23.8
171st
  Lyon
23.8
172nd
  Saskatoon
23.7
173rd
  Karlsruhe
23.3
173rd
  Brescia
23.3
174th
  Nantes
23.2
175th
  Porto
23
175th
  Coventry
23
176th
  Lille
22.9
176th
  Fredericton
22.9
177th
  Bangkok
22.8
177th
  Tbilisi
22.8
178th
  Valencia
22.7
178th
  Hobart
22.7
179th
  Osaka
22.6
179th
  Treviso
22.6
179th
  Funchal
22.6
179th
  Budva
22.6
180th
  Shenzhen
22.4
180th
  Linz
22.4
181st
  Toulouse
22.3
181st
  Lund
22.3
182nd
  Dakar
22.2
182nd
  Dundee
22.2
183rd
  Verona
22
184th
  Malaga
21.9
185th
  Trento
21.8
185th
  Puerto Vallarta
21.8
185th
  Groningen
21.8
186th
  Marseille
21.7
186th
  Bergamo
21.7
186th
  Mannheim
21.7
186th
  Regina
21.7
187th
  Hanover
21.6
188th
  Uppsala
21.5
188th
  Tampere
21.5
189th
  Shiraz
21.4
190th
  Pamplona
21.3
191st
  Nuremberg
21.2
192nd
  Aberdeen
21.1
192nd
  Aalborg
21.1
193rd
  Malmo
20.9
193rd
  Quebec City
20.9
193rd
  Paphos
20.9
194th
  Ljubljana
20.8
194th
  Vilnius
20.8
195th
  Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
20.7
195th
  Derby
20.7
195th
  Beirut
20.7
195th
  Mexico City
20.7
196th
  Taipei
20.6
197th
  Graz
20.5
198th
  Cape Town
20.4
199th
  Dortmund
20.3
199th
  Haifa
20.3
200th
  Turku
20.2
201st
  Essen
20.1
202nd
  Padova
20
203rd
  Bremen
19.8
203rd
  Phnom Penh
19.8
204th
  Santo Domingo
19.7
204th
  Tallinn
19.7
205th
  Bratislava
19.5
205th
  Bari
19.5
206th
  Brno
19.4
207th
  Nicosia
19.3
208th
  Aachen
19.2
209th
  Grenoble
19
210th
  Leipzig
18.9
211th
  Alicante
18.8
212th
  Manila
18.7
212th
  Turin
18.7
212th
  Santa Cruz de Tenerife
18.7
213th
  New Taipei City
18.6
214th
  Leiria
18.4
215th
  Vladivostok
18.3
215th
  Tehran
18.3
216th
  San Jose
18.2
217th
  Muscat
18.1
218th
  Montevideo
18
218th
  Belgrade
18
218th
  Havana
18
219th
  Dresden
17.9
219th
  Trieste
17.9
220th
  Addis Ababa
17.8
220th
  Naples
17.8
221st
  Zaragoza (Saragossa)
17.7
221st
  Kingston
17.7
221st
  Suva
17.7
222nd
  Riyadh
17.6
223rd
  Seville (Sevilla)
17.5
224th
  Braga
17.4
224th
  Gdansk
17.4
225th
  Almaty
17.3
225th
  Wroclaw
17.3
226th
  Genoa
17.2
227th
  Cagliari
17.1
227th
  Krakow (Cracow)
17.1
227th
  Monterrey
17.1
227th
  Tijuana
17.1
228th
  Abidjan
17
228th
  Mumbai
17
229th
  San Salvador
16.9
229th
  Granada
16.9
229th
  Saint Petersburg
16.9
230th
  Aveiro
16.6
231st
  Guangzhou
16.5
231st
  Port of Spain
16.5
232nd
  Parma
16.4
233rd
  Athens
16.3
233rd
  Vigo
16.3
234th
  Gdynia
16.1
235th
  Santiago
16
236th
  Guatemala City
15.8
236th
  Istanbul
15.8
236th
  Zagreb
15.8
237th
  Accra
15.7
238th
  Ho Chi Minh City
15.6
239th
  Guadalajara
15.5
240th
  Kosice
15.4
240th
  Olomouc
15.4
241st
  Hangzhou
15.3
242nd
  Phuket
15.2
243rd
  Kigali
15.1
244th
  Batumi
15
244th
  Cancun
15
245th
  Jakarta
14.9
246th
  Lima
14.8
246th
  Sao Paulo
14.8
247th
  Antalya
14.5
247th
  Budapest
14.5
248th
  Oviedo
14.4
249th
  Coimbra
14.2
249th
  Szczecin
14.2
250th
  Nanjing
14.1
250th
  Poznan
14.1
251st
  Ostrava
14
251st
  Tartu
14
251st
  Zadar
14
252nd
  Johannesburg
13.7
252nd
  Palermo
13.7
253rd
  Harare
13.6
254th
  Catania
13.5
255th
  Jeddah (Jiddah)
13.4
255th
  Kaunas
13.4
256th
  Mashhad
13.3
256th
  Plzen
13.3
257th
  Maribor
13.2
258th
  Bucharest
13.1
258th
  Riga
13.1
259th
  Kuala Lumpur
12.9
259th
  Lodz
12.9
259th
  Sofia
12.9
260th
  Split
12.8
260th
  Tashkent
12.8
261st
  Cluj-Napoca
12.7
261st
  Rijeka
12.7
261st
  Thessaloniki
12.7
262nd
  Isfahan (Esfahan)
12.6
262nd
  Merida
12.6
263rd
  Heraklion
12.5
263rd
  Ramallah
12.5
264th
  Bialystok
12.4
264th
  Pretoria
12.4
264th
  Windhoek
12.4
265th
  Caracas
12.3
265th
  Dubrovnik
12.3
265th
  Kiev (Kyiv)
12.3
266th
  Dar es Salaam
12.2
266th
  Lublin
12.2
266th
  Rabat
12.2
267th
  Queretaro (Santiago de Querétaro)
12.1
268th
  Durban
12
268th
  Erbil (Irbil)
12
268th
  Pattaya
12
269th
  Astana (Nur-Sultan)
11.9
269th
  Katowice
11.9
269th
  Khartoum
11.9
269th
  Tirana
11.9
270th
  Cartagena
11.8
270th
  Cebu
11.8
271st
  Chengdu
11.7
271st
  Rostov-na-donu
11.7
272nd
  Al Khobar
11.6
272nd
  Nairobi
11.6
272nd
  Novi Sad
11.6
273rd
  Ahmedabad
11.5
273rd
  Baghdad
11.5
273rd
  Minsk
11.5
274th
  Constanta
11.4
274th
  Hanoi
11.4
274th
  Klaipeda
11.4