Theresa K Belin

Cheapest Place To Live In America 2025. With help from home trend expert amanda pendleton at zillow, we’ve compiled a list of the 25 cheapest cities to live in across america based on the zillow home value index, or zhvi. Cities by considering seven metrics:

These are the cheapest cities to live in the u.s. Nationally, more than one in four (27%) active listings were affordable to the typical household in september 2025 — a drop of 12 percentage points from pre.