Indianapolis vs Kharkiv - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: October 14, 2025

	Indianapolis	Kharkiv
🚶 Cost of living one person	$2382	$510
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$5728	$1309
🏠 One person rent	$1450	$203
🏘️ Family rent	$2501	$340
🍽️ Food expenses	$655	$202
🚐 Transport expenses	$124	$43.7
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$4546	$434
😷 Air quality	Excellent	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	13 km	9 km
🎓 Higher education	70	61
😀 Quality of life	91	63
🏙️ Population	888K	1.42M

The cost of living in Indianapolis is 367% more expensive than in Kharkiv. Cities ranked 1089th and 8604th ($2382 vs $510) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 957th and 22nd 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 Indianapolis compared to 0.9 months in Kharkiv. Indianapolis ranked 54th best city to live in the United States vs Kharkiv ranked 3rd in Ukraine, while ranked 186th and 5547th among best cities to live in the world.

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	Indianapolis	Kharkiv
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$25.1	$5.68
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$74.9	$19.5
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$11	$4.93
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$6	$1.03
☕ Cappuccino	$5.78	$1.24
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$2.9	$0.63
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$1547	$206
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$1154	$125
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$2724	$358
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$2077	$223
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$143	$55.7
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$221	$85.4
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$74.1	$5.43
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	6.5%	18.62%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$1963	$1364
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$1551	$698
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$1.76	$0.34
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$60.1	$10.1
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$15.7	$3.56
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$0.84	$1.27
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.82	$1
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$3.18	$0.54
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$5.42	$0.96
🥚 Eggs, x12	$3.7	$1.5
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$10.7	$7.62
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$11.9	$3.82
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$14.9	$6.98
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$4.84	$0.84
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.4	$1.66
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$6.14	$1.83
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.31	$1.85
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.12	$0.58
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.56	$0.51
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.51	$0.37
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$2.79	$0.78
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$14.9	$4.76
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.74	$0.78
🚬 Cigarette pack	$9.94	$2.05
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$9.33	$4.18
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$6.02	$1.4
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$5.29	$0.66
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$1.93	$1.31
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$41.3	$21.4
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$15	$4.2
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$101	$8.94
💇 Haircut, simple	$16.8	$3.01
👖 Brand Jeans	$51.3	$54.4
👟 Brand Sneakers	$109	$83.2
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$1686	$351
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$27445	$3156

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Cities near Indianapolis

Distance	City	Cost of living
17 km or 11 mi	Lawrence	$2070
18 km or 11 mi	Greenwood	$1941
22 km or 14 mi	Plainfield	$1978
22 km or 14 mi	Brownsburg	$1753
23 km or 14 mi	Carmel	$2035
24 km or 15 mi	Fishers	$2017
29 km or 18 mi	Westfield	$1984
32 km or 20 mi	Franklin	$1969
33 km or 21 mi	Greenfield	$1847
33 km or 21 mi	Noblesville	$1971
55 km or 34 mi	Anderson	$1848
65 km or 41 mi	Columbus	$1769
75 km or 46 mi	Bloomington	$2097
79 km or 49 mi	Kokomo	$1731
81 km or 50 mi	Muncie	$1484
95 km or 59 mi	Lafayette	$2031
96 km or 60 mi	Marion	$1851
99 km or 61 mi	West Lafayette	$1919
108 km or 67 mi	Richmond	$1857
111 km or 69 mi	Terre Haute	$1559
124 km or 77 mi	Oxford	$1915
132 km or 82 mi	Danville	$1905
143 km or 89 mi	Hamilton	$1993
147 km or 91 mi	Fairfield	$1990
155 km or 97 mi	Middletown	$1495
156 km or 97 mi	Florence	$1922
159 km or 99 mi	Cincinnati	$2025
160 km or 99 mi	Trotwood	$1957
162 km or 101 mi	Covington	$2480
165 km or 102 mi	Mason	$1899
165 km or 103 mi	Clarksville	$1845
166 km or 103 mi	Independence	$2140
166 km or 103 mi	New Albany	$1925
167 km or 104 mi	Dayton	$1917
168 km or 104 mi	Jeffersonville	$1738
168 km or 104 mi	Piqua	$1980
169 km or 105 mi	Troy	$1965
169 km or 105 mi	Fort Wayne	$1862
171 km or 106 mi	Lebanon	$1850
172 km or 107 mi	Kettering	$1961

Cities near Kharkiv

Distance	City	Cost of living
72 km or 45 mi	Belgorod	$718
128 km or 80 mi	Poltava	$479
143 km or 89 mi	Sumy	$496
172 km or 107 mi	Kramatorsk	$639
183 km or 114 mi	Stary Oskol	$485
184 km or 115 mi	Starooskolsky	$537
193 km or 120 mi	Kursk	$649
195 km or 121 mi	Dnipro	$790
200 km or 125 mi	Sievierodonetsk	$633
203 km or 126 mi	Kamianske	$656
227 km or 141 mi	Kremenchuk	$440
230 km or 143 mi	Horlivka	$650
249 km or 155 mi	Donetsk	$516
250 km or 156 mi	Makiivka	$534
253 km or 157 mi	Zaporizhia	$501
275 km or 171 mi	Luhansk	$732
280 km or 174 mi	Voronezh	$707
306 km or 190 mi	Cherkasy	$498
314 km or 195 mi	Kryvyi Rih	$503
330 km or 205 mi	Oryol	$660
332 km or 206 mi	Kropyvnytskyi	$616
334 km or 207 mi	Mariupol	$539
358 km or 222 mi	Melitopol	$545
365 km or 227 mi	Taganrog	$665
373 km or 232 mi	Lipetsk	$570
384 km or 238 mi	Bryansk	$629
385 km or 239 mi	Chernihiv	$516
389 km or 242 mi	Shakhty	$652
400 km or 249 mi	Rostov-on-Don	$851
403 km or 250 mi	Novocherkassk	$718
409 km or 254 mi	Kyiv	$879
438 km or 272 mi	Bila Tserkva	$497
455 km or 283 mi	Gomel	$475
459 km or 285 mi	Mykolaiv	$516
460 km or 286 mi	Kherson	$420
471 km or 293 mi	Tambov	$672
477 km or 296 mi	Tula	$837
504 km or 313 mi	Kaluga	$582
514 km or 319 mi	Volgodonsk	$709
540 km or 336 mi	Zhytomyr	$586