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Johnson City, TN

Modelled metro

Cost of living in Johnson City: $2,384 leftover

Cost of living in Johnson City, as leftover, is $2,384 a month for one adult, renting a 1-bedroom on local pay — take-home after tax minus rent of $969 and the rest of the modelled month. A price index would say non-housing costs run 8% below the US average. Tennessee has no state income tax. Johnson City 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 $5,247 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 Johnson City
Rent$969
Groceries$369
Transport$556
Healthcare$415
Utilities$231
Childcare$0
Everything else$323
Total costs$2,863
Leftover$2,384

Sales tax is about 9.6%. Property tax is modelled at 0.55% of a $199,100 median home. Non-housing lines scale a national baseline by this metro's cost index (0.92).

Asking rent by bedroom

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

  • Studio

    $831

  • 1 bedroom

    $969

  • 2 bedrooms

    $1,154

  • 3 bedrooms

    $1,512

  • 4 bedrooms

    $1,789

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 Johnson City

What is the cost of living in Johnson City?

On the default one-adult, one-bedroom household, leftover in Johnson City, TN is about $2,384 a month after tax and rent. Asking rent is about $969 for a one-bedroom and $1,154 for a two-bedroom. That is a budget, not a cost-of-living index.

How does Johnson City compare with a cost-of-living index?

A price index would say non-housing costs run 8% below the US average. Leftover still depends on your tax bill and bedroom count, which an index does not. Johnson City 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 Johnson City calculated?

The take-home page for Johnson City 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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