Detroit vs Yekaterinburg - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: March 02, 2025

	Detroit	Yekaterinburg
🚶 Cost of living one person	$2064	$765
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$4936	$1946
🏠 One person rent	$1212	$377
🏘️ Family rent	$2122	$769
🍽️ Food expenses	$605	$256
🚐 Transport expenses	$109	$59.7
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$3270	$696
😷 Air quality	Moderate	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	9 km	17 km
🎓 Higher education	77	46
😀 Quality of life	86	60
🏙️ Population	639K	1.47M

The cost of living in Detroit is 170% more expensive than in Yekaterinburg. Cities ranked 1678th and 6596th ($2064 vs $765) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 1488th and 14th in the United States and Russia, respectively. Check the United States vs Russia comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 1.6 months in Detroit compared to 0.9 months in Yekaterinburg. Detroit ranked 83rd best city to live in the United States vs Yekaterinburg ranked 8th in Russia, while ranked 315th and 5209th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Detroit vs Yekaterinburg

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	Detroit	Yekaterinburg
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$17.3	$8
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$65.3	$42.7
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$10	$4.65
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$5.59	$1.72
☕ Cappuccino	$4.88	$2.21
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$2.45	$0.92
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$1182	$427
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$960	$273
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$2340	$923
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$1705	$595
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$148	$65.6
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$231	$100
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$59.6	$7.81
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	6.48%	14.85%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$1377	$2157
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$1283	$1318
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$1.98	$0.38
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$65.1	$28.6
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$13.9	$5.03
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$0.9	$0.64
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.86	$0.89
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$2.9	$0.53
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$4.79	$1.2
🥚 Eggs, x12	$4.05	$1.52
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$12.2	$9.51
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$11.9	$4.06
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$20.6	$8.36
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$4.58	$1.59
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.19	$1.49
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$5.32	$1.93
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$4.84	$2.43
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.29	$0.53
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.5	$0.6
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.38	$0.38
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$3.09	$1.83
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$13.6	$5.75
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$2.03	$0.83
🚬 Cigarette pack	$9.76	$2.26
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$11.7	$3.6
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$6.93	$3.34
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$3.48	$0.71
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$1.74	$1.36
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$39.7	$30
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$12	$4.59
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$94.7	$15.9
💇 Haircut, simple	$18.6	$4.83
👖 Brand Jeans	$48.7	$61.3
👟 Brand Sneakers	$85.9	$84.8
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$1288	$267
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$16893	$4946

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Cities near Detroit

Distance	City	Cost of living
1.9 km or 1.2 mi	Windsor	$1694
7.4 km or 4.6 mi	Hamtramck	$2042
14 km or 8.6 mi	Dearborn	$2064
15 km or 9.1 mi	Lincoln Park	$1962
16 km or 9.8 mi	Allen Park	$2070
16 km or 10 mi	Ferndale	$2086
17 km or 10 mi	Wyandotte	$1786
17 km or 11 mi	Eastpointe	$2017
18 km or 11 mi	Madison Heights	$2102
18 km or 11 mi	Warren	$1957
19 km or 12 mi	Oak Park	$2071
19 km or 12 mi	Southgate	$1936
19 km or 12 mi	Royal Oak	$2093
20 km or 12 mi	Dearborn Heights	$2062
21 km or 13 mi	Roseville	$2022
21 km or 13 mi	Taylor	$2175
21 km or 13 mi	Southfield	$2083
22 km or 14 mi	St. Clair Shores	$2030
22 km or 14 mi	Inkster	$2087
24 km or 15 mi	Garden	$2032
26 km or 16 mi	Amherstburg	$1724
27 km or 17 mi	Birmingham	$2059
28 km or 17 mi	Sterling Heights	$2040
28 km or 17 mi	Livonia	$1940
29 km or 18 mi	Troy	$1963
29 km or 18 mi	Westland	$2065
30 km or 19 mi	Clinton Township	$2077
31 km or 19 mi	Romulus	$2081
32 km or 20 mi	Farmington Hills	$2390
37 km or 23 mi	Rochester Hills	$2019
39 km or 24 mi	Novi	$2288
40 km or 25 mi	Pontiac	$1837
42 km or 26 mi	Auburn Hills	$1959
54 km or 34 mi	Monroe	$1706
58 km or 36 mi	Ann Arbor	$2238
71 km or 44 mi	Chatham-Kent	$1778
86 km or 54 mi	Toledo	$1593
88 km or 54 mi	Burton	$1607
88 km or 54 mi	Port Huron	$1943
89 km or 55 mi	Sarnia	$1527

Cities near Yekaterinburg

Distance	City	Cost of living
95 km or 59 mi	Municipal Formation of the Kamensk-Uralsky	$646
96 km or 59 mi	Kamensk-Uralsky	$648
126 km or 78 mi	Nizhny Tagil	$592
194 km or 120 mi	Zlatoust	$600
194 km or 121 mi	Chelyabinsk	$617
201 km or 125 mi	Miass	$596
291 km or 181 mi	Perm	$595
302 km or 188 mi	Tyumen	$765
333 km or 207 mi	Kurgan	$531
371 km or 231 mi	Ufa	$672
396 km or 246 mi	Magnitogorsk	$506
447 km or 277 mi	Kostanay	$710
448 km or 278 mi	Izhevsk	$637
461 km or 287 mi	Sterlitamak	$454
486 km or 302 mi	Salavat	$538
524 km or 326 mi	Naberezhnye Chelny	$613
558 km or 346 mi	Nizhnekamsk	$580
559 km or 348 mi	Almetyevsk	$593
577 km or 358 mi	Petropavl	$557
639 km or 397 mi	Orsk	$509
666 km or 414 mi	Orenburg	$534
678 km or 421 mi	Kirov	$508
685 km or 426 mi	Kokshetau	$619
716 km or 445 mi	Kazan	$734
760 km or 473 mi	Aktobe	$548
771 km or 479 mi	Syktyvkar	$569
773 km or 480 mi	Yoshkar-Ola	$537
780 km or 485 mi	Samara	$656
798 km or 496 mi	Tolyatti	$612
816 km or 507 mi	Ulyanovsk	$559
821 km or 510 mi	Cheboksary	$592
823 km or 511 mi	Omsk	$631
865 km or 537 mi	Oral	$549
872 km or 542 mi	Syzran	$590
882 km or 548 mi	Surgut	$654
949 km or 590 mi	Nur-Sultan	$770
982 km or 610 mi	Balakovo	$605
1011 km or 628 mi	Saransk	$438
1014 km or 630 mi	Nizhny Novgorod	$717
1023 km or 636 mi	Nizhnevartovsk	$658