Charlotte vs Kharkiv - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: March 02, 2025

	Charlotte	Kharkiv
🚶 Cost of living one person	$2528	$506
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$5839	$1360
🏠 One person rent	$1559	$207
🏘️ Family rent	$2624	$413
🍽️ Food expenses	$636	$198
🚐 Transport expenses	$162	$42.9
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$4485	$388
😷 Air quality	Good	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	9 km	9 km
🎓 Higher education	68	60
😀 Quality of life	88	56
🏙️ Population	875K	1.42M

The cost of living in Charlotte is 399% more expensive than in Kharkiv. Cities ranked 761st and 8600th ($2528 vs $506) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 705th and 20th in the United States and Ukraine, respectively. Check the United States vs Ukraine comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 1.8 months in Charlotte compared to 0.8 months in Kharkiv. Charlotte ranked 62nd best city to live in the United States vs Kharkiv ranked 3rd in Ukraine, while ranked 252nd and 5713th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Charlotte vs Kharkiv

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	Charlotte	Kharkiv
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$16.6	$5.71
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$71.6	$20.5
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$10.4	$4.87
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$5.95	$1.02
☕ Cappuccino	$5.06	$1.15
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$2.56	$0.63
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$1601	$207
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$1337	$132
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$3268	$444
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$2181	$293
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$105	$55.2
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$162	$85
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$63.8	$5.01
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	6.54%	17.9%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$4188	$1187
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$2832	$662
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$2.61	$0.32
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$90.9	$9.94
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$18.4	$3.47
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$0.83	$1.26
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.01	$0.98
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$3.23	$0.51
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$4.31	$0.98
🥚 Eggs, x12	$4.8	$1.53
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$14.2	$7.21
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$14.9	$3.65
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$17.6	$5.94
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$5.44	$0.66
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.43	$1.62
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$7.8	$1.73
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$4.64	$1.84
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.33	$0.49
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.19	$0.61
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.28	$0.35
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$2.74	$0.77
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$15.9	$4.63
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$2.52	$0.74
🚬 Cigarette pack	$8.65	$1.94
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$6.14	$4.19
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$6.97	$1.38
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$4.26	$0.66
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$1.8	$1.3
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$52.9	$21.1
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$14.1	$4.16
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$124	$8.94
💇 Haircut, simple	$25.8	$2.96
👖 Brand Jeans	$54	$50.5
👟 Brand Sneakers	$93.3	$76.4
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$1337	$360
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$25956	$3129

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Cities near Charlotte

Distance	City	Cost of living
17 km or 10 mi	Matthews	$2271
17 km or 11 mi	Mint Hill	$2269
20 km or 13 mi	Huntersville	$2188
23 km or 14 mi	Indian Trail	$2225
28 km or 18 mi	Cornelius	$2166
30 km or 18 mi	Concord	$2147
31 km or 19 mi	Gastonia	$1891
36 km or 22 mi	Kannapolis	$2136
36 km or 22 mi	Rock Hill	$2177
38 km or 23 mi	Monroe	$2182
40 km or 25 mi	Mooresville	$2072
57 km or 35 mi	Lancaster	$2170
59 km or 37 mi	Salisbury	$2117
62 km or 39 mi	Statesville	$2090
63 km or 39 mi	Shelby	$1474
72 km or 45 mi	Hickory	$1851
94 km or 58 mi	Forest	$1951
101 km or 63 mi	Thomasville	$2058
104 km or 64 mi	Rockingham	$2136
104 km or 65 mi	Spartanburg	$1925
108 km or 67 mi	Asheboro	$2091
111 km or 69 mi	Winston-Salem	$2098
113 km or 70 mi	High Point	$1934
120 km or 75 mi	Kernersville	$2169
130 km or 81 mi	Greer	$2292
132 km or 82 mi	Greensboro	$2011
138 km or 86 mi	Columbia	$1809
142 km or 88 mi	Mauldin	$2404
143 km or 89 mi	Lexington	$1929
147 km or 91 mi	Greenville	$2530
152 km or 94 mi	Florence	$1907
152 km or 95 mi	Sumter	$1902
154 km or 96 mi	Sanford	$2184
159 km or 99 mi	Burlington	$2144
160 km or 99 mi	Asheville	$2697
166 km or 103 mi	Greenwood	$2106
176 km or 109 mi	Fayetteville	$2100
179 km or 111 mi	Chapel Hill	$2309
180 km or 112 mi	Lumberton	$2100
184 km or 114 mi	Anderson	$1888

Cities near Kharkiv

Distance	City	Cost of living
72 km or 45 mi	Belgorod	$552
128 km or 80 mi	Poltava	$490
143 km or 89 mi	Sumy	$486
172 km or 107 mi	Kramatorsk	$586
183 km or 114 mi	Stary Oskol	$434
184 km or 115 mi	Starooskolsky	$473
193 km or 120 mi	Kursk	$490
195 km or 121 mi	Dnipro	$718
200 km or 125 mi	Sievierodonetsk	$550
203 km or 126 mi	Kamianske	$605
227 km or 141 mi	Kremenchuk	$444
230 km or 143 mi	Horlivka	$611
249 km or 155 mi	Donetsk	$536
250 km or 156 mi	Makiivka	$534
253 km or 157 mi	Zaporizhia	$459
275 km or 171 mi	Luhansk	$574
280 km or 174 mi	Voronezh	$448
306 km or 190 mi	Cherkasy	$455
314 km or 195 mi	Kryvyi Rih	$486
330 km or 205 mi	Oryol	$505
332 km or 206 mi	Kropyvnytskyi	$513
334 km or 207 mi	Mariupol	$507
358 km or 222 mi	Melitopol	$550
365 km or 227 mi	Taganrog	$494
373 km or 232 mi	Lipetsk	$430
384 km or 238 mi	Bryansk	$513
385 km or 239 mi	Chernihiv	$433
389 km or 242 mi	Shakhty	$571
400 km or 249 mi	Rostov-on-Don	$683
403 km or 250 mi	Novocherkassk	$617
409 km or 254 mi	Kyiv	$850
438 km or 272 mi	Bila Tserkva	$454
455 km or 283 mi	Gomel	$440
459 km or 285 mi	Mykolaiv	$400
460 km or 286 mi	Kherson	$433
471 km or 293 mi	Tambov	$561
477 km or 296 mi	Tula	$552
504 km or 313 mi	Kaluga	$538
514 km or 319 mi	Volgodonsk	$595
540 km or 336 mi	Zhytomyr	$549