Snapshot: This table displays the overall cost of living for select metropolitan areas throughout the U.S., organized by state. Metro areas with a number value greater than 100.0 are more expensive to live in than the U.S. average, while metro areas with a value of less than 100.0 are less expensive to live in than the U.S. average. See “RN Salaries Overview” for more information about the methodology.
- In the table, dark green colors indicate the highest cost of living, and dark red colors indicate the lowest cost of living
- The metropolitan areas with the highest cost of living can be found on the West Coast and in the Northeast.
- The metropolitan areas with the lowest cost of living can be found in the South, the Midwest and in parts of the mountain We
Metropolitan Area (By State)
|
Cost of Living Index
|
| Alabama |
|
| Anniston-Oxford |
94.7 |
| Birmingham-Hoover |
87 |
| Decatur-Hartselle |
90.8 |
| Dothan |
88.2 |
| Florence-Muscle Shoals |
92.2 |
| Huntsville |
93.4 |
| Mobile |
92.1 |
| Montgomery |
97.2 |
| Tuscaloosa |
99.1 |
| Alaska |
|
| Anchorage |
125.9 |
| Fairbanks |
139.8 |
| Juneau |
141.5 |
| Arizona |
|
| Lake Havasu City-Kingman |
103.9 |
| Phoenix-Mesa |
96 |
| Prescott |
96.3 |
| Tucson |
93.8 |
| Yuma |
104.7 |
| Arkansas |
|
| Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers(AR-MO) |
86.3 |
| Hot Springs |
93.1 |
| Jonesboro |
88.3 |
| Little Rock-North Little Rock |
101.1 |
| California |
|
| Bakersfield |
99.5 |
| Fresno |
105.2 |
| Los Angeles-Long Beach |
131.3 |
| Oakland-Fremont-Hayward |
136.8 |
| Riverside-San Bernadino-Ontario |
113.7 |
Sacramento-Aden
Arcade-Roseville |
117.1 |
| San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos |
134.4 |
| San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City |
168.3 |
| San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara |
157 |
| Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine |
140.1 |
| Colorado |
|
| Colorado Springs |
96.7 |
| Denver-Aurora |
105.1 |
| Grand Junction |
103 |
| Pueblo |
85.1 |
| Connecticut |
|
| Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford |
124.6 |
| New Haven-Milford |
130.9 |
| Stamford-Norwalk |
148.4 |
| Delaware |
|
| Dover |
104.8 |
| Wilmington (DE-MD-NJ) |
112.2 |
| District of Columbia |
|
| Washington-Arlington-Alexandria (DC-VA-MD) |
150.8 |
| Florida |
|
| Cape Coral-Fort Myers |
95.3 |
| Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach |
95 |
| Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield Beach |
112.6 |
| Jacksonville |
95.7 |
| Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall |
108.1 |
| Orlando-Kissimmee |
96 |
| Punta Gorda |
93.9 |
| Sebastian-Vero Beach |
99.4 |
| Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater |
92.2 |
| Georgia |
|
| Albany |
91 |
| Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta |
95 |
| Augusta-Aiken (GA-SC) |
90.9 |
| Dalton |
89.4 |
| Savannah |
91.2 |
| Valdosta |
95.8 |
| Hawaii |
|
| Honolulu |
169.7 |
| Idaho |
|
| Boise City-Nampa |
97.2 |
| Idaho Falls |
86.4 |
| Illinois |
|
| Champaign-Urbana |
100.1 |
| Chicago-Naperville-Joliet |
118.6 |
| Danville |
93 |
| Kankakee-Bradley |
94.9 |
| Peoria |
102.2 |
| Rockford |
90.9 |
| Springfield |
87.8 |
| Indiana |
|
| Bloomington |
92.9 |
| Elkhart-Goshen |
91.6 |
| Evansville (IN-KY) |
95.5 |
| Fort Wayne |
90.8 |
| Indianapolis-Carmel |
93.8 |
| Lafayette |
94.2 |
| South Bend-Mishawaka (IN-MI) |
90 |
| Iowa |
|
| Ames |
97.4 |
| Cedar Rapids |
92.8 |
| Davenport-Moline-Rock Island (IA-IL) |
99.8 |
| Des Moines |
90.8 |
| Waterloo-Cedar Falls |
93.1 |
| Kansas |
|
| Manhattan |
92.4 |
| Topeka |
94.1 |
| Wichita |
90.9 |
| Kentucky |
|
| Cincinnati-Middletown (OH-KY-IN) |
88.4 |
| Lexington-Fayette |
88.7 |
| Louisville (KY-IN) |
91.6 |
| Louisiana |
|
| Alexandria |
99.9 |
| Baton Rouge |
91.3 |
| Hammond |
89.7 |
| Lafayette |
96.5 |
| Lake Charles |
96.1 |
| Monroe |
95.5 |
| New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner |
94.5 |
| Shreveport-Bossier City |
97.8 |
| Maine |
|
| Portland-South Portland-Biddeford |
110.2 |
| Maryland |
|
| Baltimore-Towson |
118 |
| Bethesda-Gaithersburg-Frederick |
130.9 |
| Massachussetts |
|
| Boston-Quincy |
142.8 |
| Worcester |
105.6 |
| Michigain |
|
| Ann Arbor |
103 |
| Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn |
98.9 |
| Grand Rapids-Wyoming |
91.5 |
| Kalamazoo-Portage |
88.5 |
| Minnessota |
|
| Mankato-North Mankato |
97.1 |
| Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington (MI-WI) |
110.8 |
| Rochester |
100.4 |
| St. Cloud |
97.4 |
| Mississippi |
|
| Hattiesburg |
94 |
| Jackson |
89.3 |
| Missouri |
|
| Columbia |
94.2 |
| Jefferson City |
91.9 |
| Joplin |
89.5 |
| Kansas City (MO-KS) |
100.2 |
| St. Louis (MO-IL) |
89.6 |
| Springfield |
89.2 |
| Montana |
|
| Bozeman |
103.7 |
| Kalispell |
96.9 |
| Nebraska |
|
| Lincoln |
91.9 |
| Omaha-Council Bluffs (NE-IA) |
89.9 |
| Nevada |
|
| Las Vegas-Paradise |
98.3 |
| Reno-Sparks |
92.5 |
| New Hampshire |
|
| Manchester-Nashua |
120.1 |
| New Jersey |
|
| Edison-Middlesex-Monmouth |
126.9 |
| Newark-Elizabeth |
129.4 |
| New Mexico |
|
| Albuquerque-Rio Rancho |
96.7 |
| Las Cruces |
97.2 |
| New York |
|
| Albany-Schenectady-Troy |
109.7 |
| Buffalo-Niagra Falls |
99.2 |
| Nassau-Suffolk |
133.4 |
| New York City |
187.4 |
| Rochester |
103.3 |
| North Carolina |
|
| Asheville |
99.4 |
| Burlington |
92.9 |
| Chapel Hill |
110.2 |
| Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord (NC-SC) |
93.7 |
| Durham |
91.4 |
| Greenville |
96.6 |
| Raleigh-Cary |
90.9 |
| Wilmington |
95.6 |
| Winston-Salem |
89.2 |
| North Dakota |
|
| Fargo (ND-MN) |
95.2 |
| Minot |
107.2 |
| Ohio |
|
| Akron |
101.6 |
| Cincinnatti-Middletown (OH-KY-IN) |
91.1 |
| Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor |
101.8 |
| Columbus |
89.2 |
| Dayton |
93.7 |
| Lima |
96.4 |
| Youngstown-Warren-Boardman (OH-PA) |
88.3 |
| Oklahoma |
|
| Oklahoma City |
90.5 |
| Lawton |
89.9 |
| Tulsa |
88.3 |
| Oregon |
|
| Klamath Falls |
94.1 |
| Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton (OR-WA) |
118.7 |
| Pennsylvania |
|
| Johnstown |
96.2 |
| Philadelphia |
122.8 |
| Pittsburgh |
95.7 |
| Williamsport-Lycoming |
99.7 |
| York-Hanover |
98.9 |
| Rhode Island |
|
| Providence-New Bedford-Fall River (RI-MA) |
122.5 |
| South Carolina |
|
| Anderson |
87.9 |
| Charleston-North Charleston |
98.1 |
| Columbia |
95.7 |
| Greenville |
90.3 |
| Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach |
94.5 |
| Spartanburg |
92.4 |
| Sumter |
90 |
| South Dakota |
|
| Pierre |
101.9 |
| Tennessee |
|
| Chattanooga (TN-GA) |
93.7 |
| Knoxville |
88.8 |
| Memphis (TN-MS-AR) |
85.6 |
| Morristown |
90 |
| Nashville-Franklin |
87.7 |
| Texas |
|
| Amarillo |
93.6 |
| Austin |
94.4 |
| Brownsville |
91.7 |
| Byran-College Station |
90.5 |
| Corpus Christi |
92.2 |
| Dallas |
96.4 |
| El Paso |
94.6 |
| Fort Worth |
89.3 |
| Houston-Sugar Land |
94.2 |
| Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood |
90.6 |
| Lubbock |
88.9 |
| McAllen-Edinburg-Mission |
86 |
| Odessa |
94.4 |
| San Angelo |
89.9 |
| San Antonio |
87.7 |
| Sherman-Denison |
88 |
| Texarkana (TX-AR) |
94.8 |
| Tyler |
92.1 |
| Waco |
89.6 |
| Wichita Falls |
87.1 |
| Utah |
|
| Ogden-Clearfield |
95.7 |
| Provo-Orem |
95.9 |
| St. George |
91.5 |
| Salt Lake City |
95.7 |
| Vermont |
|
| Burlington-South Burlington |
120 |
| Virginia |
|
| Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford |
95.8 |
| Charlottesville |
108 |
| Danville |
92.6 |
| Harrisonburg |
100.3 |
| Lynchburg |
92.1 |
| Richmond |
100.6 |
| Roanoke |
88.7 |
| Winchester (VA-WV) |
102.8 |
| Washington |
|
| Kenneick-Richland-Pasco |
96 |
| Olympia |
105.7 |
| Seattle-Bellevue-Everett |
116.2 |
| Spokane |
95.9 |
| Tacoma |
107.6 |
| Yakima |
92.5 |
| West Virginia |
|
| Charleston |
94.6 |
| Wisconsin |
|
| Eau Claire |
90.4 |
| Green Bay |
96.4 |
| Janesville |
97.7 |
| Madison |
109.8 |
| Milwaukee-Waukesha |
101 |
| Wasau |
95.7 |
| Wyoming |
|
| Laramie |
100.7 |
The 10 metropolitan areas with the highest cost of living in the U.S. are:
Metropolitan Area
|
Cost of Living Index
|
| New York City |
187.4
|
| Honolulu |
169.7
|
| San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City |
168.3
|
| San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara |
157
|
| Washington-Arlington-Alexandria (DC-VA-MD) |
150.8
|
| Stamford-Norwalk |
148.4
|
| Boston-Quincy |
142.8
|
| Juneau |
141.5
|
| Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine |
140.1
|
The 10 metropolitan areas with the lowest cost of living in the U.S. are:
Metropolitan Area
|
Cost of Living Index
|
| Pueblo |
85.1
|
| Memphis (TN-MS-AR) |
85.6
|
| McAllen-Edinburg-Mission |
86
|
| Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers (AR-MO) |
86.3
|
| Idaho Falls |
86.4
|
| Birmingham-Hoover |
87
|
| Wichita Falls |
87.1
|
| Nashville-Franklin |
87.7
|
| San Antonio |
87.7
|
| Springfield |
87.8 |