Nashville vs Clarksville leftover
You'd keep $45 more a month in Clarksville
$2,721/mo leftover in Clarksville vs $2,676 in Nashville after tax and rent ($45 more). +$540 a year for the same registered nurse, the same household size, and the same number of bedrooms. Not a cost-of-living index.
Nashville leftover
$2,676
a month after tax and rent
Clarksville leftover
$2,721
+$45 vs Nashville
Compare Nashville to another metro
Same paycheck. Try a different city next to Nashville.
Monthly gap
Nashville → Clarksville
$45
more / month in Clarksville
$2,721 in Clarksville · $2,676 in Nashville · 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, 2,369 households moved Nashville → Clarksville (avg AGI $48,923). 1,715 went the other way. The whole move →
+$45 / mo
| Per month | Nashville | Clarksville | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross pay | $7,583 | $6,997 | −$586 |
| Income and payroll tax | $1,550 | $1,376 | −$174 |
| Take-home pay | $6,034 | $5,621 | −$412 |
| Rent | $1,392 | $984 | −$408 |
| Getting around | $559 | $570 | +$11 |
| Groceries | $388 | $371 | −$17 |
| Healthcare | $437 | $418 | −$19 |
| Utilities | $243 | $232 | −$11 |
| Everything else | $340 | $325 | −$15 |
| Left over | $2,676 | $2,721 | +$45 |
To break even in Clarksville, you'd need to earn
$83,000
Household gross, versus $91,000 today. That's the salary that leaves you exactly as much at the end of the month as Nashville does now.
The tax difference alone
$0
A year, in state and local income tax. Tennessee has no wage income tax.
More about Clarksville
Nashville, TN in full
No income tax and a real music and healthcare economy; traffic is the tax.
Clarksville, TN in full
No state income tax, a median 2-bedroom asking rent of $1,172 and 211 sunny days; commutes average 26 minutes.
The reverse move
Same two cities, but starting from Clarksville on Clarksville wages.
Clarksville → Nashville →Questions
Is the cost of living lower in Clarksville than Nashville?
A one-bedroom is about $1,392 in Nashville versus $984 in Clarksville. On a one-adult, one-bedroom household, leftover is about $45 a month higher in Clarksville. Change the job or household on the comparison to see your number.
Does Clarksville have state income tax?
Clarksville is in Tennessee, which has no state income tax.
What changes if you move from Nashville to Clarksville?
Take-home pay is recalculated under Tennessee 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 Nashville and Clarksville 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.