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

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

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.