About
A relocation calculator that starts from your paycheck
Uprootmap answers one question for 66 US metros: if you moved there with your job and your household, how much money would be left at the end of the month?
Why it exists
Cost-of-living indexes compress a city into a single percentage, and that number is not one you can spend. It prices a basket most people don't buy, ignores the tax bill, and assumes every household is the same size. Uprootmap instead runs your own situation: your occupation's local pay, federal, state and city income tax, rent at the number of bedrooms you actually need, and the everyday costs that scale with the people in your home.
The point is not to tell you where to live. It is to shrink a list of sixty-six places to the four worth researching properly.
Where the numbers come from
Rent is Zillow's asking rent for each metro; home values and household incomes come from the Census Bureau. Tax rules follow the IRS and each state's published schedules, climate figures are NOAA normals, and living costs are modelled from national baselines. Every source and every assumption is written up on the methodology page, and the data was last refreshed 2026-09-04.
It is a model, and models are wrong in the details by construction. Nothing here is tax, financial or housing advice.
How it is paid for
Uprootmap is an independent site supported by advertising. It has no affiliation with Zillow, the Census Bureau, HUD, any employer, lender, landlord or moving company, and it earns nothing from where you decide to go. There are no accounts and nothing you enter is stored on our servers — the privacy policy spells out exactly what is and isn't collected.
Contact
Spotted a figure that looks wrong, a metro that should be here, or something broken? Email hello@uprootmap.com. Corrections with a source attached get fixed fastest.
The same address works for press, partnership and advertising questions, and for anything about the privacy policy.