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Fort Smith, AR

Modelled metro

Cost of living in Fort Smith: $2,416 leftover

Cost of living in Fort Smith, as leftover, is $2,416 a month for one adult, renting a 1-bedroom on local pay — take-home after tax minus rent of $776 and the rest of the modelled month. A price index would say non-housing costs run 10% below the US average. Arkansas taxes wage income on a bracket schedule. Fort Smith is a modelled metro: rent, wages and prices come from Zillow, Census and BEA, not a hand-written city essay.

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These figures start from one adult in a one-bedroom, on local pay of about $98,500. Change the job, the pay, or how many bedrooms you need, and leftover changes. This is a monthly budget, not a cost-of-living index.

The month, in dollars

Take-home is $5,054 after tax. These lines are the modelled bills, then what is left. The monthly costs page is the same household inside the city hub.

Monthly costs and leftover in Fort Smith
Rent$776
Groceries$358
Transport$563
Healthcare$403
Utilities$224
Childcare$0
Everything else$314
Total costs$2,638
Leftover$2,416

Sales tax is about 9.5%. Property tax is modelled at 0.60% of a $160,100 median home. Non-housing lines scale a national baseline by this metro's cost index (0.90).

Asking rent by bedroom

Turnover asking rent in Fort Smith, not the Census median of occupied stock. Rent versus buying.

  • Studio

    $665

  • 1 bedroom

    $776

  • 2 bedrooms

    $924

  • 3 bedrooms

    $1,210

  • 4 bedrooms

    $1,432

Leftover in other metros nearby

Same household. Each leftover is take-home after that metro's tax minus its rent.

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. Change the job, remote versus local pay, or bedrooms and the ranking is a different city. How the math works · Leftover vs a COL index · Why a cheaper COL% can still lose leftover.

Cost of living in Fort Smith

What is the cost of living in Fort Smith?

On the default one-adult, one-bedroom household, leftover in Fort Smith, AR is about $2,416 a month after tax and rent. Asking rent is about $776 for a one-bedroom and $924 for a two-bedroom. That is a budget, not a cost-of-living index.

How does Fort Smith compare with a cost-of-living index?

A price index would say non-housing costs run 10% below the US average. Leftover still depends on your tax bill and bedroom count, which an index does not. Fort Smith is a modelled metro: rent, wages and prices come from Zillow, Census and BEA, not a hand-written city essay.

Where is take-home pay in Fort Smith calculated?

The take-home page for Fort Smith splits federal, payroll, state and local wage tax, then subtracts rent. The city paycheck page is the same leftover math with the map.

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