Where can you afford to live?
Enter your current home and see where your budget goes furthest. Find cities where the same house costs less — or where the same budget buys you a bigger home. Free, no sign-up.
Estimates use local median price per square foot from public market data (Realtor.com & Zillow research). Directional only — not appraisals or offers. Actual prices vary by home, condition, and timing.
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Dig into local prices, price per square foot, and what it's like to live there.
Explore home values by city →How far does your home budget go in another city?
Two houses that are nearly identical can cost wildly different amounts depending on where they sit. A home that sells for $400,000 in one metro might be $250,000 in another — or $900,000 in a third. This relocation calculator turns that idea into real numbers: it takes your current home's estimated value as a budget, then shows where that budget buys the same house for less, or a much bigger one.
How the relocation calculator works
- Step 1 — your home today. Enter your ZIP code and home size. We estimate your home's value using the local median price per square foot, which becomes your moving budget.
- Step 2 — your goal. Choose "same-size home, save money" to rank cities by how much you'd save buying a home your size, or "same budget, bigger home" to see how many square feet your budget buys in each city.
- Results. A ranked list of 440+ U.S. cities, filterable by state and searchable by name. Click any city for its full home-value breakdown and what it's like to live there.
Where homes are cheapest (and most expensive)
In general, the Midwest and parts of the South offer the most home for the money, while coastal California, the Northeast corridor, and resort markets sit at the top end. Moving from an expensive metro to an affordable one is one of the few ways to unlock six figures of home equity without earning a cent more — which is exactly what this tool helps you quantify. Browse the full picture on our U.S. home values map, or see the extremes in the most expensive ZIP codes in America.
Before you move
Home price is the biggest line in a relocation budget, but not the only one. Weigh local cost of living, income differences, property taxes, and what daily life is actually like — details you can research from each city's page. And remember these are directional estimates: confirm any specific home with a local agent and a home value estimate for the exact ZIP.