{"id":445432,"date":"2026-09-23T19:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T19:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/445432\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T19:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T19:26:08","slug":"san-antonio-ranks-as-fourth-most-affordable-city-for-singles-making-under-40k-a-year-analysis-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/445432\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio ranks as fourth most affordable city for singles making under $40K a year, analysis finds"},"content":{"rendered":"

The analysis explored 50 cities across the United States, accounting for one-bedroom rents and other daily necessities. <\/p>\n

SAN ANTONIO \u2014 San Antonio ranks as the fourth most affordable U.S. city for singles making under $40,000 a year, according to an analysis by MoneyLion<\/a>, a financial technology company.<\/p>\n

The analysis examined 50 cities and found that a single adult in San Antonio needs just $38,465 pre-tax to cover the basics, including weighing the costs for a one-bedroom apartment, groceries, utilities, transportation and healthcare.<\/p>\n


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San Antonio is one of three cities in the analysis, behind Detroit and El Paso, where singles spend less than $4,000 a year on groceries \u2014 the rounded total is $3,948, the analysis found.<\/p>\n

Average one-bedroom apartment rents total out at $1,390 a month. For context, the average in San Francisco is $4,539.<\/p>\n

As for other cities in the analysis, El Paso ranked 11th, Austin at 19th and Fort Worth at 22nd.<\/p>\n

The other nine cities for singles highlighted in the report and their bare minimum living wages were:<\/p>\n

Wichita, Kansas ($36,334)Memphis, Tennessee ($36,478)Tulsa, Oklahoma ($38,2610)San Antonio ($38,465)Oklahoma City ($39,074)Columbus, Ohio ($39,074)Albuquerque, New Mexico ($39,513)Tucson, Arizona ($39,618)Indianapolis, Indiana ($39,899) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The analysis explored 50 cities across the United States, accounting for one-bedroom rents and other daily necessities. SAN…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-445432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}