Louisville vs Moscow - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: October 14, 2025

	Louisville	Moscow
🚶 Cost of living one person	$1847	$1438
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$4440	$3409
🏠 One person rent	$1087	$864
🏘️ Family rent	$1899	$1523
🍽️ Food expenses	$549	$357
🚐 Transport expenses	$70.5	$109
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$3987	$881
😷 Air quality	Excellent	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	8 km	27 km
🎓 Higher education	60	96
😀 Quality of life	89	73
🏙️ Population	246K	13.3M

The cost of living in Louisville is 28% more expensive than in Moscow. Cities ranked 2519th and 4141st ($1847 vs $1438) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 1889th and 1st 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 2.2 months in Louisville compared to 0.6 months in Moscow. Louisville ranked 89th best city to live in the United States vs Moscow ranked 1st in Russia, while ranked 281st and 2664th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Louisville vs Moscow

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	Louisville	Moscow
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$14.7	$12.3
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$60.8	$55.4
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$10.1	$6.18
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$5.87	$4.27
☕ Cappuccino	$4.93	$3.35
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$2.49	$1.47
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$1046	$1183
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$881	$660
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$1832	$2170
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$1620	$1176
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$118	$91.2
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$182	$140
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$55	$8.08
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	6.47%	24.47%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$3372	$9466
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$3052	$4008
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$1.75	$0.87
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$48.1	$37.7
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$17.3	$5.62
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$0.81	$0.78
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.58	$1.25
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$2.83	$0.87
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$4.35	$1.55
🥚 Eggs, x12	$3.29	$1.7
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$13.5	$12.8
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$10.3	$5.71
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$11.9	$11.8
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$4.4	$1.8
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.55	$2
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$4.09	$2.02
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$5.3	$3.57
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.31	$0.99
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.65	$0.8
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.33	$0.53
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$2	$2.5
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$14.7	$9.17
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$3.22	$1.12
🚬 Cigarette pack	$8.44	$3.09
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$6.34	$4.18
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$5.02	$3.05
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$3.49	$1.92
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$1.48	$1.81
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$23.8	$43.4
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$12.6	$7.34
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$112	$34.3
💇 Haircut, simple	$16	$6.45
👖 Brand Jeans	$45.8	$78.3
👟 Brand Sneakers	$83.3	$127
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$1218	$688
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$15931	$15272

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Cities near Louisville

Distance	City	Cost of living
4.7 km or 2.9 mi	Jeffersonville	$1738
6.4 km or 3.9 mi	Clarksville	$1845
8 km or 4.9 mi	New Albany	$1925
16 km or 10 mi	Jeffersontown	$1912
46 km or 29 mi	Shelbyville	$1874
50 km or 31 mi	Radcliff	$1883
63 km or 39 mi	Elizabethtown	$1724
78 km or 48 mi	Frankfort	$1659
104 km or 65 mi	Georgetown	$2091
107 km or 67 mi	Columbus	$1769
111 km or 69 mi	Nicholasville	$1816
113 km or 70 mi	Lexington	$1713
121 km or 75 mi	Bloomington	$2097
126 km or 79 mi	Florence	$1922
130 km or 81 mi	Independence	$2140
132 km or 82 mi	Owensboro	$1647
140 km or 87 mi	Franklin	$1969
140 km or 87 mi	Richmond	$1606
140 km or 87 mi	Winchester	$1822
140 km or 87 mi	Covington	$2480
146 km or 91 mi	Cincinnati	$2025
154 km or 96 mi	Greenwood	$1941
154 km or 96 mi	Bowling Green	$1763
159 km or 99 mi	Fairfield	$1990
161 km or 100 mi	Evansville	$2164
163 km or 101 mi	Hamilton	$1993
164 km or 102 mi	Oxford	$1915
165 km or 102 mi	Somerset	$1338
167 km or 104 mi	Henderson	$1799
170 km or 106 mi	Plainfield	$1978
171 km or 106 mi	Greenfield	$1847
172 km or 107 mi	Indianapolis	$2382
173 km or 108 mi	Tompkinsville	$1810
175 km or 109 mi	Mason	$1899
180 km or 112 mi	Lawrence	$2070
183 km or 114 mi	Middletown	$1495
185 km or 115 mi	Brownsburg	$1753
186 km or 116 mi	Lebanon	$1850
190 km or 118 mi	Richmond	$1857
190 km or 118 mi	Fishers	$2017

Cities near Moscow

Distance	City	Cost of living
18 km or 11 mi	Khimki	$914
19 km or 12 mi	Krasnogorsk	$915
19 km or 12 mi	Lyubertsy	$917
19 km or 12 mi	Mytishchi	$800
21 km or 13 mi	Balashikha	$898
22 km or 14 mi	Korolyov	$831
37 km or 23 mi	Podolsk	$876
52 km or 32 mi	Elektrostal	$863
96 km or 60 mi	Obninsk	$671
161 km or 100 mi	Kaluga	$582
161 km or 100 mi	Tver	$727
173 km or 107 mi	Tula	$837
179 km or 111 mi	Vladimir	$650
184 km or 114 mi	Ryazan	$692
248 km or 154 mi	Yaroslavl	$672
250 km or 155 mi	Ivanovo	$615
266 km or 165 mi	Rybinsk	$678
301 km or 187 mi	Kostroma	$765
326 km or 202 mi	Oryol	$660
349 km or 217 mi	Bryansk	$629
366 km or 228 mi	Dzerzhinsk	$697
369 km or 229 mi	Smolensk	$547
372 km or 231 mi	Lipetsk	$570
376 km or 234 mi	Cherepovets	$543
402 km or 250 mi	Nizhny Novgorod	$882
408 km or 254 mi	Vologda	$544
419 km or 260 mi	Tambov	$672
457 km or 284 mi	Kursk	$649
466 km or 290 mi	Voronezh	$707
474 km or 294 mi	Vitebsk	$293
491 km or 305 mi	Veliky Novgorod	$734
495 km or 308 mi	Starooskolsky	$537
496 km or 308 mi	Stary Oskol	$485
509 km or 316 mi	Mogilev	$545
513 km or 319 mi	Saransk	$719
555 km or 345 mi	Penza	$537
568 km or 353 mi	Gomel	$475
571 km or 355 mi	Sumy	$496
577 km or 359 mi	Belgorod	$718
601 km or 373 mi	Cheboksary	$772