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

51 US states ranked by price level of utilities (US = 100), from highest to lowest. First are Hawaii (192), Massachusetts (166) and New Hampshire (156). The middle one of the 51 has 89.4.

What this measures

How much household utilities cost here, meaning electricity, gas, water and sewer, compared with the US average of 100. Each year is compared with that year's US average. An estimate by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, 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	192
2	Massachusetts	166
3	New Hampshire	156
4	Connecticut	153
5	Maine	148
6	California	147
7	Rhode Island	145
8	New York	135
9	Vermont	122
10	Pennsylvania	118
11	New Jersey	115
12	Alaska	113
13	District of Columbia	109
14	Maryland	109
15	Delaware	104
16	Michigan	99.7
17	Florida	93.7
18	Texas	92.4
19	Virginia	92.4
20	Georgia	92.3
21	Nevada	91.3
22	Oregon	91
23	Kansas	90.8
24	Alabama	89.9
25	Wisconsin	89.5
26	Minnesota	89.4
27	Ohio	89.2
28	West Virginia	87.8
29	Iowa	87.3
30	Colorado	86.8
31	South Carolina	85.8
32	Missouri	85.6
33	Indiana	84.7
34	Washington	84
35	North Carolina	83.6
36	Mississippi	83.5
37	Arizona	83.3
38	Arkansas	81.9
39	South Dakota	81.3
40	Kentucky	80.9
41	Illinois	80.4
42	Oklahoma	80.2
43	Nebraska	79.4
44	New Mexico	77.9
45	Louisiana	76.7
46	Tennessee	76.4
47	North Dakota	75
48	Wyoming	74.1
49	Utah	73
50	Montana	72.8
51	Idaho	68.1

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