Balıkesir · Türkiye

Cost of living in Balikesir

One person renting a one-bedroom flat in Balikesir spends about 39,346 TL a month on rent, food, bills and personal costs. A two-bedroom rents for about 21,865 TL. From official Turkish data. For one person, Balikesir is 6th most expensive of 74 provinces.

One person, a month
39,346 TL
renting a one-bedroom flat
Two-bedroom rent
21,865 TL
90 m², newly let
Couple
64,154 TL
two-bedroom flat
Family of four
97,661 TL
three-bedroom flat

Three households in Balikesir

Rent, groceries, eating out, bills, phone and personal spending. Building fees, a car, public transport and school are not included.

One person

One adult, a rented one-bedroom flat (60 m²)

39,346 TL / month

24,770 TL if they own their home.

Couple

Two adults, a rented two-bedroom flat (90 m²)

64,154 TL / month

42,290 TL if they own their home.

Family of four

Two adults, two children aged 7–13, a rented three-bedroom flat (120 m²)

97,661 TL / month

68,509 TL if they own their home.

Where one person’s money goes

Rent is 37% of the total. The last column says how local each figure is.

  • Housing 37%
  • Food 36%
  • Bills 7%
  • Personal 19%
ItemA monthBased on
Rent14,576 TLProvince data
Groceries11,009 TLRegional prices
Eating out3,260 TLRegional prices
Electricity390 TLProvince data
Natural gas776 TLProvince data
Water265 TLProvince data
Home internet950 TLNational price
Mobile phone465 TLNational price
Clothing and shoes1,701 TLRegional prices
Personal care1,388 TLRegional prices
Health and medicine1,267 TLRegional prices
Leisure, sport, culture1,029 TLRegional prices
Household goods and cleaning2,269 TLRegional prices
Total39,346 TL

“Province data” is the province’s own official figure. “Regional prices” is a national figure adjusted with the statistics office’s price level for the region. “National price” is the same everywhere, such as phone and internet plans.

Provinces that cost about the same

The same one-person household.

Reading these figures

They describe a household that rents at today’s market rent, heats with natural gas and buys the healthy-diet grocery basket that the Türk-İş labour confederation prices every month. Amounts are in Turkish lira and are monthly. Prices in Türkiye move quickly: these use data as of 30 September 2026, and the page is rebuilt whenever a source publishes a new figure.

The province is priced as a whole, so a central district will cost more than the figure here and an outlying one less. How the figures are made. The same page in Turkish has more detail, including gas, water and minimum-wage pages for Balikesir: Balıkesir yaşam maliyeti.

Data as of · All 81 provinces · 74 provinces have their own rent data