One person
One adult, a rented one-bedroom flat (60 m²)
35,067 TL / month
23,621 TL if they own their home.
Türkiye
Cost of living in Mersin
One person renting a one-bedroom flat in Mersin spends about 35,067 TL a month on rent, food, bills and personal costs. A two-bedroom rents for about 17,169 TL. From official Turkish data. For one person, Mersin is 26th most expensive of 74 provinces.
- One person, a month
- 35,067 TL
- renting a one-bedroom flat
- Two-bedroom rent
- 17,169 TL
- 90 m², newly let
- Couple
- 57,200 TL
- two-bedroom flat
- Family of four
- 87,112 TL
- three-bedroom flat
Three households in Mersin
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)
57,200 TL / month
40,031 TL if they own their home.
Family of four
Two adults, two children aged 7–13, a rented three-bedroom flat (120 m²)
87,112 TL / month
64,219 TL if they own their home.
Where one person’s money goes
Rent is 33% of the total. The last column says how local each figure is.
- Housing 33%
- Food 38%
- Bills 8%
| Item | A month | Based on |
|---|---|---|
| Rent | 11,446 TL | Province data |
| Groceries | 10,164 TL | Regional prices |
| Eating out | 3,176 TL | Regional prices |
| Electricity | 620 TL | Province data |
| Natural gas | 662 TL | Province data |
| Water | 256 TL | Province data |
| Home internet | 950 TL | National price |
| Mobile phone | 465 TL | National price |
| Clothing and shoes | 1,696 TL | Regional prices |
| Personal care | 1,389 TL | Regional prices |
| Health and medicine | 1,096 TL | Regional prices |
| Leisure, sport, culture | 992 TL | Regional prices |
| Household goods and cleaning | 2,154 TL | Regional prices |
| Total | 35,067 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 Mersin: Mersin yaşam maliyeti.
Data as of · All 81 provinces · 74 provinces have their own rent data