Costs by state
Built from 35 real, itemized General Price Lists collected from the Los Angeles–Orange County area, the Chicago area, the Houston area, the Phoenix area, and the Tampa Bay area, plus national medians published by the National Funeral Directors Association.
The national picture
| Scenario | Typical range | Median |
|---|---|---|
| Direct cremation only | $1,037 – $2,420 | $1,920 |
| Traditional funeral with burial | $4,208 – $7,224 | $5,616 |
For a broader benchmark, the National Funeral Directors Association’s most recent survey puts the median cost of a funeral with cremation at $6,280 and with viewing and burial at $8,300 (2023 NFDA General Price List Study, National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA)) — a different bundle of items than our itemized figures above, so they won’t match exactly.
Want a figure built around your own choices? Use the full calculator.
Understanding the numbers
If you want the whole picture rather than a single state — what each line on a funeral bill is for, what the cemetery charges on top, and which items you are legally entitled to refuse — start with our pillar guide, How much does a funeral cost?
Since most families now choose cremation, there is a companion guide to that side of the bill — what cremation costs, what a direct cremation price does and doesn’t include, and why the same cremation varies several-fold within one city.
States we hold local data for
These five states carry enough of their own price lists for a genuine local breakdown — itemized costs, real funeral home prices, and a comparison against the national figures above.
States with a legal profile, not yet local pricing
We don’t hold real price lists from these states yet, so their cost figures are the nationwide numbers above, clearly labeled as such. What they do carry: real, sourced facts about your funeral rights in that state and how many funeral homes it has.
The other 37 states
We don’t yet hold enough real price lists — or a real, distinctive sourced fact — for the rest of the country to give them their own page. We’d rather say that plainly than dress up a national average as a local number. The calculator still works for every state: it uses the nationwide figures above and says so. We’re actively collecting more price lists and will add a state’s page as soon as it clears our own bar for real local data.