Money & place / 02
What does $100 feel like where you live?
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Here, $100 has the buying power of
at the US average price level.
Prices are 3.8% below the US average.
Statewide averages, not a personal budget.Alaska and Hawaii shown as insets.
Behind the numbers
We use the Bureau of Economic Analysis’s 2024 regional price parities, table SARPP, line 1: all items. Released February 19, 2026; retrieved October 28, 2026. The US average price level is 100.
An index of 110 means prices average 10% above the national level. To show purchasing power, we divide $100 by the index and multiply by 100. At an index of 110, $100 has about $90.91 of buying power at national-average prices.
This broad measure covers goods and services, including housing rents. It compares places in the same year, not inflation over time. It does not predict a particular household’s spending, wages, taxes, home purchase price, or costs within a city. Small differences should not be overinterpreted.
We retain the original three-decimal indices, display indices and price differences to one decimal, and round purchasing power to the nearest cent. The map colors show price levels; darker teal means lower prices and purple means higher prices.
Map boundaries: US Census Bureau, via US Atlas 3.0.1 (2017). Simplified for display. An independent visualization by Uncle Simple.
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