10 cities where cost of living will soar in 2018

If you're looking to relocate to save money in 2018, it's important to know which cities will be the most affordable — and which will experience a significant rise in the cost of living.

GOBankingRates analyzed Zillow's year-over-year median home value forecast, its year-over-year median rent forecast and the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Consumer Price Indexes (CPI) — which track the changes in prices of all goods and services purchased for consumption by urban households — for all years 2014 to 2017.

Here are the results of our cost-of-living comparison. Click through to see the cities where the cost of living is expected to rise the most in 2018:

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Methodology: To conduct this study, GOBankingRates analyzed 75 of the largest cities using the following factors from Zillow and the Bureau of Labor Statistics: 1) year-over-year median home value forecast, 2) year-over-year median rent forecast and 3) Consumer Price Index changes from 2014 to 2017.

This article originally appeared on GOBankingRates.com: 10 Cities Where Cost of Living Will Soar in 2018.

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