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Cost of living, regional price parity for all items

Measure: Cost of living, regional price parity for all items (U.S. = 100). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Cost of living (regional price parities) by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2024.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-09

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National value: 100 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 109.9
RI 102.3
DE 99.8
CT 103.6
NJ 108.8
MD 105
MA 105.8
VT 98
NH 104.2

Lowest: 86.9 to 90.1
Group 2: 90.1 to 94.3
Group 3: 94.3 to 98.9
Group 4: 98.9 to 103.4
Highest: 103.4 to 110.7

The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. Values are as published in the source table.


1	California	110.7
2	Hawaii	110
3	District of Columbia	109.9
4	New Jersey	108.8
5	New York	107.9
6	Washington	107
7	Massachusetts	105.8
8	Maryland	105
9	New Hampshire	104.2
10	Connecticut	103.6
11	Florida	103.4
11	Oregon	103.4
13	Colorado	103.1
14	Alaska	102.4
15	Rhode Island	102.3
16	Virginia	101.1
17	Arizona	100.7
18	Illinois	100
18	Nevada	100
20	Delaware	99.8
21	Utah	98.9
22	Minnesota	98.6
23	Vermont	98
24	Pennsylvania	97.6
25	Texas	97.1
26	Maine	97
27	Georgia	96.3
28	Michigan	96.2
29	Idaho	95.5
30	Montana	94.6
31	North Carolina	94.3
32	Wisconsin	94.1
33	South Carolina	93.7
34	Indiana	93.3
35	Ohio	92.8
36	Wyoming	92.7
37	New Mexico	92.2
38	Tennessee	91.9
39	Missouri	90.8
40	Kentucky	90.2
41	Kansas	90.1
41	Nebraska	90.1
43	West Virginia	89.5
44	North Dakota	89
45	Alabama	88.8
46	South Dakota	88.6
47	Louisiana	88.2
48	Iowa	87.8
48	Oklahoma	87.8
50	Mississippi	87
51	Arkansas	86.9

Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Economic Accounts, Table SARPP: Regional price parities by state
Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Economic Accounts, Table SARPI: Real personal income and real personal consumption expenditures (PCE) by state. Reference period: 2024.

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U.S. states ranked by cost of living, regional price parity for all items (U.S. = 100) (2024). Data: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Accounts, Tables SARPP and SARPI; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-09. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-cost-of-living-regional-price-parity-for-all-items/

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