US States With the Highest Price Level of Goods (US = 100)

51 US states ranked by price level of goods (US = 100), from highest to lowest. First are Hawaii (110), Washington (107) and California (107). The middle one of the 51 has 97.4.

What this measures

How much goods cost here, such as food, clothing, cars and fuel, compared with the US average of 100. Goods prices differ much less from place to place than rents do. Each year is compared with that year's US average. An estimate by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, from prices the Consumer Price Index collects, 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	Hawaii	110
2	Washington	107
3	California	107
4	District of Columbia	107
5	New Jersey	106
6	New York	105
7	Oregon	105
8	Alaska	104
9	Maryland	103
10	Minnesota	102
11	Illinois	102
12	Virginia	101
13	Massachusetts	100
14	New Hampshire	100
15	Colorado	99.2
16	Connecticut	98.6
17	Pennsylvania	98.4
18	Maine	98.3
19	Rhode Island	98.3
20	Florida	98.2
21	Texas	98.1
22	Arizona	97.9
23	Vermont	97.9
24	Georgia	97.7
25	New Mexico	97.4
26	South Dakota	97.4
27	Missouri	97.3
28	Delaware	97.3
29	Wyoming	97.1
30	North Dakota	97
31	Nevada	96.8
32	North Carolina	96.8
33	Iowa	96.6
34	Nebraska	96.5
35	Kansas	96.5
36	Montana	96.5
37	South Carolina	95.9
38	Idaho	95.9
39	Michigan	95.8
40	West Virginia	95.7
41	Indiana	95.6
42	Utah	94.7
43	Alabama	94.6
44	Kentucky	94.5
45	Mississippi	94.4
46	Wisconsin	94.3
47	Tennessee	94.3
48	Ohio	94.2
49	Oklahoma	93.3
50	Arkansas	93.1
51	Louisiana	93

More on price level of goods (US = 100)

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