One person
One adult, a rented one-bedroom flat (60 m²)
38,202 TL / month
24,211 TL if they own their home.
Türkiye
Cost of living in Kocaeli
One person renting a one-bedroom flat in Kocaeli spends about 38,202 TL a month on rent, food, bills and personal costs. A two-bedroom rents for about 20,986 TL. From official Turkish data. For one person, Kocaeli is 10th most expensive of 74 provinces.
- One person, a month
- 38,202 TL
- renting a one-bedroom flat
- Two-bedroom rent
- 20,986 TL
- 90 m², newly let
- Couple
- 62,159 TL
- two-bedroom flat
- Family of four
- 94,309 TL
- three-bedroom flat
Three households in Kocaeli
Rent, groceries, eating out, bills, phone and personal spending. Building fees, a car, public transport and school are not included.
Couple
Two adults, a rented two-bedroom flat (90 m²)
62,159 TL / month
41,173 TL if they own their home.
Family of four
Two adults, two children aged 7–13, a rented three-bedroom flat (120 m²)
94,309 TL / month
66,327 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 8%
| Item | A month | Based on |
|---|---|---|
| Rent | 13,991 TL | Province data |
| Groceries | 10,733 TL | Regional prices |
| Eating out | 3,052 TL | Regional prices |
| Electricity | 456 TL | Province data |
| Natural gas | 864 TL | Province data |
| Water | 175 TL | Province data |
| Home internet | 950 TL | National price |
| Mobile phone | 465 TL | National price |
| Clothing and shoes | 1,680 TL | Regional prices |
| Personal care | 1,464 TL | Regional prices |
| Health and medicine | 1,073 TL | Regional prices |
| Leisure, sport, culture | 1,035 TL | Regional prices |
| Household goods and cleaning | 2,265 TL | Regional prices |
| Total | 38,202 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 Kocaeli: Kocaeli yaşam maliyeti.
Data as of · All 81 provinces · 74 provinces have their own rent data