Cost of Living
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How Mansfield's prices compare to the US city average across major spending categories.
How far does your salary go in Mansfield?
Your $100,000 in Mansfield has the same purchasing power as $126,167 in the average US city. You'd need $26,167 less here to maintain that standard of living.
Demographics and workforce data from the US Census ACS 5-Year.
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Climate, safety, and walkability indicators.
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Within 10 points of Mansfield's cost index of 79, sorted by closest match.
So why do people move to Mansfield? The honest answer involves a few specific things the data backs up — most clearly your money goes a lot further here and you'll get your commute time back. The detail on each one is below.
Mansfield's composite cost-of-living index is 79 — roughly 21% under the US baseline. Housing is doing most of the heavy lifting; groceries, utilities, and services are also cheaper than the national norm, just by smaller margins. Median rent in town runs about $733/mo against a typical household income of $40,996, which is the kind of ratio that leaves room to save.
Average commute time in Mansfield runs around 21 minutes one-way — short enough that it doesn't restructure your day. Compared to the 45-plus-minute commutes that are normal in major metros, the difference adds up to a real lifestyle gap.
Reasons are pulled from Mansfield's actual data — Census ACS, BLS, BEA, NOAA, EPA AQS, FBI, and Walk Score. We don't list positives that aren't supported by the numbers, which is why different cities show different sections.
Snow is just part of the winter in Mansfield. Average temperatures around 23°F mean the ground stays covered from December well into March, and a snowblower is less optional than aspirational.
Properly cold. Mansfield's winter sits around 23°F on average — and that's the average, meaning plenty of nights drop well below zero. People here own gear.
Reliably warm. Mansfield's summer averages around 82°F, the kind of heat where you remember to leave the house before noon for outdoor things and accept that the back of your shirt will be wet by lunchtime.
Approximately USDA Hardiness Zone 7. That's the band gardeners use to pick plants — anything rated for Zone 7 or colder should survive a typical winter in Mansfield. (The estimate is derived from our winter-temperature data; the official USDA map uses station-level annual minimums and may differ by half a zone.)
Roughly 1,188 feet (362 m). That's modest elevation — comparable to most inland-Midwest and Southern cities.
Middle of the pack. Mansfield comes in around 3,737 per 100,000, basically the national average. The interesting question is usually which neighborhood, not which city — that's where the real variation lives.
Mansfield is a genuinely affordable city by US standards. The composite index sits at 79 versus the 100 national baseline — about 21% cheaper overall, with housing doing most of the heavy lifting.
Mansfield scores 36 out of 100 on Walk Score, which translates to "car-dependent but not aggressively so". Some neighborhoods buck the citywide average; the dense inner cores are usually noticeably more walkable than the city number suggests.
As a rule of thumb, plan on about $55,482 to live in Mansfield the way a $70,000 earner lives in a typical US city. The math gets less forgiving the lower you go below that. Median rent in Mansfield runs about $733/mo — keeping housing under 30% of gross income points to a similar floor on what you'd want to earn.