Moving to Delhi NCR

What will a month here cost us?

Rent decides most of it, and rent depends on the neighbourhood. Tell us your take-home pay and your family, pick up to three areas, and see what's left at the end of the month in each.

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1Your family

Take-home pay a month, all earners Adults Children

2Where, and how big

First choice Compare with And

1 BHK 2 BHK 3 BHK

3Getting to work

How People going to work Days a month

The distance from each area to work goes in the table below, so each area gets its own commute.

4School and help at home

School Fee a year, per child School bus a month, per child Help at home

Change our guesses

Electricity, units a month Food and groceries, per person Everything else a month (EMIs, insurance, outings)

Where the numbers come from

Prices as of November 2026. Rent is the middle of the typical range we found for each area; change it in the table if you've been quoted something else.

Rent: Listing portals and rental reports for each area, named under the table. Where only a few listings exist we say "rough"; where we found nothing fair, we ask for your quote.
Metro: Weekday Delhi Metro fares by distance. Delhi Metro fares from 25 Aug 2025. Noida's Aqua Line charges its own fares, ₹10 to ₹50 a trip.
Petrol and CNG: Each city's price. CNG from 29 Aug 2026; petrol from city price pages, early Nov 2026. We assume a car does 14 km a litre (20 km a kg on CNG) and a scooter 45 km a litre.
Electricity: Each state's tariff: Delhi 2026-27 budget keeps 200 free units; Haryana tariff from 1 Apr 2025; UP tariff 2024-25. Delhi includes the usual surcharges and tax, roughly. Unless you change it, we take 150, 250 or 350 units a month for a 1, 2 or 3 BHK, a year-round average; summer bills with ACs run much higher.
Cooking gas: Delhi 14.2 kg cylinder, ₹942 from 7 Jun 2026. We assume one cylinder lasts a family of three or four about six weeks.
Food and groceries: What an urban Delhi household spends per person a month, times the share that goes on food, from the Household Consumption Expenditure Survey 2023-24. That's 2023-24 prices, so it's on the low side now.
Help at home: Part-time cleaning and a cook: Rates in one Gurgaon society, Nov 2024. Full-time: Agency rates for full-time help, 2026. Rates vary a lot by society.
School: Government schools don't charge tuition. KV fees: ₹500 VVN plus ₹100 computer fund a month. Private fees vary too much to guess, so type in your school's fee. Compare two schools.
Phone and internet: 100 Mbps plans, May 2026, with 18% GST, and one postpaid phone plan for each adult.

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