Columbus vs Kharkiv - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: March 02, 2025

	Columbus	Kharkiv
🚶 Cost of living one person	$2145	$506
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$5059	$1360
🏠 One person rent	$1248	$207
🏘️ Family rent	$2171	$413
🍽️ Food expenses	$632	$198
🚐 Transport expenses	$125	$42.9
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$4018	$388
😷 Air quality	Moderate	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	10 km	9 km
🎓 Higher education	73	60
😀 Quality of life	88	56
🏙️ Population	906K	1.42M

The cost of living in Columbus is 324% more expensive than in Kharkiv. Cities ranked 1476th and 8600th ($2145 vs $506) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 1323rd 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 1.9 months in Columbus compared to 0.8 months in Kharkiv. Columbus ranked 59th best city to live in the United States vs Kharkiv ranked 3rd in Ukraine, while ranked 249th and 5713th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Columbus vs Kharkiv

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	Columbus	Kharkiv
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$18.9	$5.71
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$66.4	$20.5
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$11.7	$4.87
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$5.69	$1.02
☕ Cappuccino	$4.78	$1.15
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$2.44	$0.63
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$1314	$207
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$972	$132
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$2378	$444
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$1757	$293
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$149	$55.2
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$232	$85
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$57.9	$5.01
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	6.57%	17.9%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$3095	$1187
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$2954	$662
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$2.01	$0.32
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$60.8	$9.94
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$15.4	$3.47
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$0.86	$1.26
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.92	$0.98
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$2.74	$0.51
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.43	$0.98
🥚 Eggs, x12	$3.4	$1.53
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$13.3	$7.21
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$13.8	$3.65
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$15.4	$5.94
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$5.29	$0.66
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.32	$1.62
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$5.69	$1.73
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$4.95	$1.84
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.12	$0.49
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.04	$0.61
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.47	$0.35
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$3.28	$0.77
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$18.6	$4.63
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$2.66	$0.74
🚬 Cigarette pack	$9.45	$1.94
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$9.35	$4.19
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$3.76	$1.38
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$4.07	$0.66
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$2.2	$1.3
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$42.3	$21.1
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$11.7	$4.16
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$85.5	$8.94
💇 Haircut, simple	$19.9	$2.96
👖 Brand Jeans	$61	$50.5
👟 Brand Sneakers	$89.4	$76.4
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$1236	$360
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$15423	$3129

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Cities near Columbus

Distance	City	Cost of living
8.6 km or 5.3 mi	Upper Arlington	$2084
11 km or 7.1 mi	Grove	$2062
13 km or 8.3 mi	Gahanna	$1986
15 km or 9 mi	Hilliard	$2085
17 km or 11 mi	Reynoldsburg	$1994
18 km or 11 mi	Dublin	$2095
19 km or 12 mi	Westerville	$1798
22 km or 13 mi	Pickerington	$1983
38 km or 24 mi	Delaware	$1851
43 km or 27 mi	Lancaster	$1903
43 km or 27 mi	Marysville	$1968
51 km or 32 mi	Newark	$1881
69 km or 43 mi	Springfield	$1897
70 km or 43 mi	Chillicothe	$1764
70 km or 44 mi	Marion	$1871
84 km or 52 mi	Zanesville	$1825
86 km or 53 mi	Xenia	$1870
89 km or 55 mi	Fairborn	$1798
94 km or 59 mi	Beavercreek	$1862
97 km or 60 mi	Huber Heights	$1852
97 km or 60 mi	Mansfield	$1832
98 km or 61 mi	Riverside	$1865
103 km or 64 mi	Kettering	$1890
103 km or 64 mi	Troy	$1897
104 km or 65 mi	Athens	$1674
104 km or 65 mi	Centerville	$1902
105 km or 65 mi	Dayton	$1783
105 km or 65 mi	Sidney	$1973
108 km or 67 mi	Piqua	$1914
112 km or 69 mi	Trotwood	$1870
116 km or 72 mi	Ashland	$1681
120 km or 74 mi	Lebanon	$1834
128 km or 80 mi	Middletown	$1427
128 km or 80 mi	Lima	$1923
130 km or 81 mi	Wooster	$1481
131 km or 81 mi	Mason	$1853
132 km or 82 mi	Findlay	$1839
136 km or 84 mi	Portsmouth	$1428
144 km or 90 mi	New Philadelphia	$1683
146 km or 91 mi	Norwalk	$1858

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