US States With the Highest Price Level, All Items (US = 100)

51 US states ranked by price level, all items (US = 100), from highest to lowest. First are California (112), District of Columbia (111) and Hawaii (110). The middle one of the 51 has 96.5.

What this measures

How expensive everyday living is here compared with the whole country, where the US average is 100. A value of 110 means the same things cost about 10% more than average; 90 means about 10% less. It covers goods, rent, utilities and services. Each year is compared with that year's US average, so a rise means the place got dearer than the country, not that prices went up. An estimate by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), for states and metro areas only. Source: BEA Regional Price Parities.

For most measures, a national ranking mostly sorts places by income and by how urban they are. Each county’s own page compares it with the 50 counties most like it instead, which is often the fairer view.

Every state

Rank	State	index, US = 100
1	California	112
2	District of Columbia	111
3	Hawaii	110
4	New Jersey	109
5	Washington	108
6	New York	108
7	Massachusetts	108
8	New Hampshire	105
9	Oregon	105
10	Maryland	105
11	Connecticut	104
12	Florida	104
13	Alaska	103
14	Rhode Island	102
15	Colorado	102
16	Virginia	101
17	Arizona	101
18	Delaware	98.8
19	Illinois	98.8
20	Minnesota	98.3
21	Maine	98
22	Nevada	97.9
23	Pennsylvania	97.4
24	Vermont	97.1
25	Texas	97.1
26	Georgia	96.5
27	Utah	95.7
28	North Carolina	94.4
29	Michigan	94.3
30	South Carolina	93.5
31	Wisconsin	93.2
32	Idaho	92.2
33	Indiana	92.1
34	Tennessee	92.1
35	Ohio	91.9
36	Wyoming	91.6
37	Missouri	91.1
38	Montana	91
39	New Mexico	91
40	Nebraska	90.3
41	Kansas	89.9
42	Kentucky	89.9
43	West Virginia	89.6
44	Alabama	89.1
45	Iowa	88.8
46	Louisiana	88.7
47	Oklahoma	88.7
48	North Dakota	88.2
49	South Dakota	88.1
50	Arkansas	86.8
51	Mississippi	86.8

More on price level, all items (US = 100)

A ranking describes places, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All US rankings.