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Regional price parities (RPPs) compare price levels across places for the same year. This tool uses the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis MARPP table, 2024 observations, released February 19, 2026 and retrieved October 18, 2026. Every comparison uses the same vintage. It does not measure changes in prices since 2024.

The five series are all items (line 1), goods (2), housing services (3), utilities (4) and other services (5). Overall values use BEA’s aggregation, not a simple average of the four categories. RPPs reflect broad consumption patterns, not a minimum living wage or a particular household’s shopping basket.

Destination difference = (destination index ÷ starting index − 1) × 100. Spending equivalent = your entered monthly amount × destination overall index ÷ starting overall index. We use the source’s three decimal places for calculations and show indices and percentages to one decimal place. Reversing cities changes the percentage because the starting base changes.

The spending result is a price-level illustration in the 2024 data frame. It is not inflation-adjusted to today, a recommended salary, a rent quote or a prediction. Differences under 0.05% display as approximately the same. The model does not account for your specific spending mix, income taxes, debts or moving costs.

Each of Homzora’s 50 city editions maps to one metropolitan statistical area using its five-digit CBSA code. The full BEA metro name is displayed beside each result and in the table. Some areas cross state lines. Inland Empire maps to Riverside–San Bernardino–Ontario; Washington DC maps to Washington–Arlington–Alexandria. This is not a comparison of municipal boundaries.

BEA uses OMB Bulletin 23-01 metropolitan delineations. Housing expenditure weights include imputed owner-occupied rents; rental price levels are used for renters and owners, and the housing index cannot be used to estimate a mortgage or a home sale price. Goods and other services combine many products and are not separate grocery, health care or transport estimates. No uncertainty interval is supplied in this extract; small differences should not drive a move by themselves.

• BEA Regional Price Parities: release and documentation
• Original BEA MARPP metropolitan data archive
• BEA methodology
• Homzora 50-metro extract (CSV) · JSON with metro codes and source metadata

Credit the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis for the underlying data and Homzora for the selection and comparison tool. No government endorsement is implied. No affiliate links influence these calculations. The figures are a dated snapshot and will require a new data release to be updated.