Elizabethtown vs Louisville leftover
You'd keep $29 more a month in Louisville
$2,479/mo leftover in Louisville vs $2,450 in Elizabethtown after tax and rent ($29 more). +$348 a year for the same registered nurse, the same household size, and the same number of bedrooms. Not a cost-of-living index.
Elizabethtown leftover
$2,450
a month after tax and rent
Louisville leftover
$2,479
+$29 vs Elizabethtown
Compare Elizabethtown to another metro
Same paycheck. Try a different city next to Elizabethtown.
Monthly gap
Elizabethtown → Louisville
$29
more / month in Louisville
$2,479 in Louisville · $2,450 in Elizabethtown · One adult, renting a 1-bedroom
Home
Only when you tap. We match the nearest metro and don't keep the coordinates.
Destination
In 2022-2023, 1,049 households moved Elizabethtown → Louisville (avg AGI $45,152). 998 went the other way. The whole move →
+$29 / mo
| Per month | Elizabethtown | Louisville | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross pay | $7,125 | $7,320 | +$195 |
| Income and payroll tax | $1,795 | $1,914 | +$120 |
| Take-home pay | $5,330 | $5,405 | +$75 |
| Rent | $942 | $1,047 | +$105 |
| Getting around | $569 | $545 | −$24 |
| Groceries | $378 | $368 | −$10 |
| Healthcare | $425 | $414 | −$11 |
| Utilities | $236 | $230 | −$6 |
| Everything else | $330 | $322 | −$8 |
| Left over | $2,450 | $2,479 | +$29 |
To break even in Louisville, you'd need to earn
$87,500
Household gross, versus $85,500 today. That's the salary that leaves you exactly as much at the end of the month as Elizabethtown does now.
The tax difference alone
−$743
A year, in state and local income tax. Effective rates: 25.2% in Elizabethtown, 26.2% in Louisville.
More about Louisville
Elizabethtown, KY in full
A flat 4% state income tax, a median 2-bedroom asking rent of $1,121 and 197 sunny days; commutes average 24 minutes.
Louisville, KY in full
Cheap, central, and warmer than the rest of the Midwest.
The reverse move
Same two cities, but starting from Louisville on Louisville wages.
Louisville → Elizabethtown →Questions
Is the cost of living lower in Louisville than Elizabethtown?
A one-bedroom is about $942 in Elizabethtown versus $1,047 in Louisville. On a one-adult, one-bedroom household, leftover is about $29 a month higher in Louisville. Change the job or household on the comparison to see your number.
Does Louisville have state income tax?
Louisville is in Kentucky, which taxes wage income, plus a local wage tax of 2.20%.
What changes if you move from Elizabethtown to Louisville?
Take-home pay is recalculated under Kentucky tax, rent is priced at the same bedroom count, and leftover is the gap. The from-to page also lists IRS households that already made the move, when that data exists.
Leftover is take-home after federal, state and city wage tax, minus asking rent at the bedroom count you set, minus a modelled month of groceries, utilities, healthcare, transport and childcare. It is not a cost-of-living index and not a moving quote. The dollar gap between Elizabethtown and Louisville moves when you change the job, remote versus local pay, or bedrooms. How the math works · Leftover vs a COL index · Why a cheaper COL% can still lose leftover.
Rent is Zillow's asking rent for each metro; taxes and living costs are modelled. An estimate, not a quote or tax advice. How this is calculated.