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Utility price level, regional price parity: U.S. states ranked (2024)

Measure: Utility price level, regional price parity (U.S. = 100). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Cost of living (regional price parities) by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2024.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-09

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National value: 98.4 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 112.8
RI 146.7
DE 103.8
CT 146.5
NJ 114.2
MD 110.9
MA 152.1
VT 125.8
NH 133.7

Lowest: 70.4 to 78.4
Group 2: 78.4 to 87.5
Group 3: 87.5 to 92.3
Group 4: 92.3 to 114.2
Highest: 114.2 to 190.2

The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. Values are as published in the source table.


1	Hawaii	190.2
2	California	158.9
3	Massachusetts	152.1
4	Rhode Island	146.7
5	Connecticut	146.5
6	Maine	135.2
7	New York	134.4
8	New Hampshire	133.7
9	Vermont	125.8
10	Alaska	119
11	New Jersey	114.2
12	District of Columbia	112.8
13	Maryland	110.9
14	Pennsylvania	109.3
15	Oregon	107
16	Delaware	103.8
17	Michigan	100.2
18	Ohio	95.8
19	Washington	92.9
20	Georgia	92.8
21	Arizona	92.3
22	Virginia	92.2
22	West Virginia	92.2
24	Minnesota	90.8
25	Nevada	90.5
26	Florida	90.1
27	Wisconsin	89.9
28	North Carolina	88.6
29	Kansas	88.4
30	South Carolina	88.3
31	Texas	87.5
32	Indiana	85.5
33	Colorado	85
33	Illinois	85
35	Alabama	84.6
36	Iowa	83.3
37	South Dakota	79.7
38	Missouri	79.4
39	Utah	78.7
40	Mississippi	78.4
40	Wyoming	78.4
42	New Mexico	77.9
43	Nebraska	75.6
44	Kentucky	75.3
45	Arkansas	74.7
46	Oklahoma	73.9
47	North Dakota	73.7
48	Montana	72.3
49	Tennessee	72.1
50	Louisiana	71.5
51	Idaho	70.4

Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Economic Accounts, Table SARPP: Regional price parities by state
Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Economic Accounts, Table SARPI: Real personal income and real personal consumption expenditures (PCE) by state. Reference period: 2024.

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U.S. states ranked by utility price level, regional price parity (U.S. = 100) (2024). Data: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Accounts, Tables SARPP and SARPI; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-09. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-utility-price-level-regional-price-parity/

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