The Posted Funeral Price Report, October 2026
What 1,079 funeral home price lists show, and how many homes post one. Prices read from funeral homes’ own websites, October 14 to 18, 2026.
The short version
- Most funeral homes don’t show their prices online. Of the 5,869 licensed funeral homes whose websites we could read in full, 26% showed prices there (between 24% and 27%, depending on what counts). In California, whose law requires a funeral home’s website to show the goods and services on its price list or link to the list, 79% did. Elsewhere, 22% did.
- Nearby homes post very different prices for direct cremation (cremation with no funeral beforehand). We compared 524 homes’ lowest price with the two nearest other price lists within 10 miles. In a typical group of three, the highest price was about 1.8 times the lowest, about $1,200 more. Part of a gap can be what each price includes.
- What posted prices look like. On a typical list, the lowest direct cremation price was $2,198 (940 lists) and the lowest immediate burial price $2,995 (865 lists). Immediate burial is burial with no funeral beforehand. The basic services fee, the home’s fee for its staff and overhead, was $2,255 (991 lists). California’s lists were lower: $1,895 for direct cremation (219 lists), against $2,350 elsewhere (721 lists).
- The lowest cremation price usually assumes you bring a container. On 73% of lists (689 of 940), the lowest direct cremation price is for when the family provides the container. On lists that also price it with the home’s simplest container, that added a median $100 (652 lists).
- Many posted lists are old. The typical list was 9 months old when we read it (1,037 dated lists). A third were more than a year old, and 15% more than two years. On 39 lists we found no date.
How we checked: three AI readers, working separately from the same text our software read, re-read 60 lists picked at random. For the prices our software recorded, they found the same price, to the dollar, 263 times out of 265. They also found 22 prices our software hadn’t recorded. A second check, of the items the first didn’t cover, on 48 more lists, found the same price 281 times out of 295, and 51 prices our software hadn’t recorded, not yet judged. No person has checked either sample yet. This report names no funeral home, and it shows no figure from fewer than 6 price lists.
If you’re arranging a funeral
You have a right to a funeral home’s prices. Under the Federal Trade Commission’s Funeral Rule, a funeral home must give you its General Price List, the itemized list of its prices, when you ask in person. It must also answer price questions by phone. Most homes don’t post the list online, so ask for it.
Compare more than one home. Among three homes within 10 miles, the highest posted direct cremation price was $1,000 or more above the lowest in 6 groups out of 10. When you compare, look at the same line on each list. Check whether a direct cremation price includes a container and the crematory’s fee, and check the date printed on the list. Our free price list checker reads a list line by line and explains each charge.
1. Most funeral homes don’t show their prices online
This report covers the 14,244 licensed funeral homes and branches in 36 states and the District of Columbia. We found and read in full the websites of 5,869 of them. For 1,536 of those homes, the site showed prices: a General Price List, or a page with the price of direct cremation, immediate burial or the basic services fee. That’s 26.2%, with a 95% interval of 25.1% to 27.3% (a range that very likely holds the true share for these homes). Another 203 homes’ sites showed only other prices, such as packages or “starting at” prices.
What counts changes the share a little. Counting only price lists we could tie to the home with confidence gives 23.6%. Also counting the 54 homes whose site had a price document from which we read no Funeral Rule prices gives 27.1%.
California stands apart. 346 of its 439 homes (78.8%; 74.8% to 82.4%) showed prices, against 1,190 of 5,430 (21.9%; 20.8% to 23.0%) in the other 35 states and DC. California law requires a funeral home’s website to show either the goods and services its price list covers, with a note that the list is available on request, or a “price information” link to the list itself. The law doesn’t require prices, so a California home that shows none may still comply. This report can’t say how much of the gap the law explains.
The share for all homes could be higher or lower. A list our software missed counts here as not posted: one posted as an image, behind a link it didn’t follow, or on a page that blocked it. And we couldn’t check the likely websites of 5,366 homes. For 3,302 of them the site blocked our program, entirely or part way; 548 sites ask automated readers not to visit; 484 didn’t respond; and for 1,032 nothing on the site tied it to the home. Even if every one of those homes showed prices, fewer than half of the 14,244 licensed homes would (6,902).
Federal law doesn’t require funeral homes to post prices online. The FTC asked the public in 2022 whether it should, held a workshop in 2023, and as of October 2026 hadn’t proposed a rule. In 2022 the Consumer Federation of America and the Funeral Consumers Alliance found that 191 of 1,046 funeral homes with websites in 35 state capitals (18%) posted their prices online. Their method was different from ours, but the answer is the same: most homes don’t.
2. Nearby homes post very different prices
Direct cremation is the simplest service on a price list: the body is cremated with no funeral beforehand. For each of the 524 funeral homes that post a direct cremation price and have at least two other posted price lists within 10 miles, we compared its lowest direct cremation price with those of the two nearest lists. 197 of the 524 homes are in California. The groups overlap, since a home can be a neighbor in several.
In a typical group of three, the highest price was 1.8 times the lowest, and about $1,200 more. For half the groups, the highest price was between 1.4 and 2.4 times the lowest, and between $708 and $1,927 more. In 40% of groups the highest price was at least double the lowest, and in 61% it was $1,000 or more above it.
Put another way, the lowest of the three was typically $591 below one of the three picked at random (for half the groups, between $348 and $898). Measured the same way for immediate burial, for the 459 homes that post an immediate burial price and have two other such lists within 10 miles, it was $627 (for half the groups, between $354 and $925). These are differences between posted prices, not savings measured for families.
Part of a gap can be what each price includes. Some homes build the crematory’s fee into their direct cremation price and some list it separately, and the container can differ too. We take each list’s price as printed. Distances are approximate, since we place most homes at the center of their ZIP code. When two lists were equally near, we picked one at random, repeated the comparison 1,000 times and report the average. The typical ratio stayed between 1.76 and 1.82.
3. What the posted prices look like
Table 1 shows every item we counted. Three matter most to families.
- Direct cremation, the lowest option on each list: median $2,198. The middle half of lists (from the 25th to the 75th percentile) ran from $1,628 to $2,825 (940 lists).
- Immediate burial, burial soon after death with no funeral beforehand: median $2,995, middle half $2,395 to $3,620 (865 lists). Cemetery charges are usually extra.
- The basic services fee, the home’s fee for its staff and overhead: median $2,255, middle half $1,693 to $2,895 (991 lists). It’s the one charge for the home’s own services that a family usually can’t decline, and a direct cremation or immediate burial price includes the home’s charge for those services. Still, on about half the lists that print both (423 of 885), the direct cremation price was below the general basic services fee. So the two medians can’t be added or compared.
California’s posted prices were lower for all three. Direct cremation: $1,895 (219 lists) against $2,350 (721 lists) elsewhere. Immediate burial: $2,598 (204 lists) against $3,075 (661 lists). Basic services: $1,885 (256 lists) against $2,375 (735 lists). For direct cremation the two 95% intervals ($1,745 to $1,995, and $2,295 to $2,400) don’t overlap, so the gap is unlikely to come from which lists we happened to read. This report can’t say why California’s prices are lower. Its lists come from a different mix of homes and places, and homes that post may differ from homes that don’t.
Two things push the national direct cremation median in opposite directions. California, where posted prices are lower, has 23% of the lists but had 15% of the deaths in these states in 2024, which pulls it down. Lists that print direct cremation only as a package or under another name, which our count leaves out, would pull it down too if counted: their prices were mostly lower, and counting the 94 lists that print one would bring the median to $2,158.
4. The lowest cremation price usually assumes you bring a container
The Funeral Rule requires a price list to show direct cremation with a container the family provides, and with each alternative container the home offers. An alternative container is usually a simple box of cardboard or fiberboard; we call it the home’s simplest container. On 689 of 940 lists (73%), the lowest direct cremation price was the one where the family provides the container. Most of those lists also show what the home’s container costs: 603 price direct cremation with it, and 30 more price the container on its own (633 of 689 in all). On the 652 lists that price direct cremation both ways, the home’s container added a median $100 (for half of them, $50 to $186). The lowest direct cremation price that includes the home’s container had a median of $2,370 (739 lists).
Our software labels which container option each price is. On the 52 checked lists where both we and the readers had a direct cremation price, the labels agreed on 49.
5. Many posted lists are old
1,037 lists print a month and year. The typical list was 9 months old when we read it in October 2026. 343 (33%) were more than a year old, and 152 (15%) more than two years old. On 39 lists we found no date, and 3 printed only a year. An old date doesn’t mean a price is wrong, but it’s a reason to ask the home for its current list.
6. Where there’s enough data for local figures
27 of the 36 states and DC, and 26 counties, have at least 6 lists with a direct cremation price. Table 2 shows all 37 and Table 3 the 26 counties.
How accurate the numbers are
Software read the price lists. Each document was turned into text (scanned pages by optical character recognition), an AI model copied the printed prices with their items, and a script confirmed that each copied price appears in the document’s text. Prices were never computed, rounded or filled in. We left out 5 prices recorded as zero or below.
To test that reading, we drew 60 lists at random and gave a third of them to each of three AI readers, working separately. Each had only the documents’ text, the same text our software read, and rules like ours, though ours also leave out prices printed only in a package. None was shown our values. Each recorded six values per list: the basic services fee, the lowest direct cremation and immediate burial prices, embalming, transfer of remains, and the printed date.
- Prices we recorded. For 263 of the 265, the readers found the same price, to the dollar. In one of the two differences, our software took a list’s highest cremation total instead of its lowest, a reading error. In the other, the reader took a discounted package, which our rules leave out.
- Dates. They matched all 59 printed dates we had.
- Prices we missed. They found 22 prices our software hadn’t recorded. 9 were printed in a package section, which our rules leave out on purpose. 10 were read but labeled as an option our rules don’t count, such as “minimum services”, a burial that requires buying the home’s casket, or a fee that leaves out transport; some of those labels are judgment calls and some are errors. 3 were in garbled scans. Counting these, our software recorded the readers’ price 263 times out of 287 (92%).
- Container labels. When a list printed its lowest cremation price twice, once as a heading and once as an option, our software sometimes named the wrong container option. We fixed that on every list: 36 lists changed, and the share assuming the family’s own container went from 70% to 73%.
A second check covered the other nine items in Table 1. Four more AI readers read 48 more of this report’s lists, picked at random. Like the first three, they worked separately from the same text our software read and weren’t shown our values. Of the 295 prices our software recorded for those items, they found the same price 281 times. Another AI reader, not told which reading was ours, then judged the 14 differences: our software was right in 5 and wrong in 9. Most were of a few kinds: a visitation price that applies only alongside a service, a memorial service or visitation price only for families who use another funeral home, and a ceremony or memorial priced only at another place. So by this check, 286 of the 295 prices (97%) were right. The readers also recorded 51 prices our software hadn’t, most of them alternative containers and memorial services; those haven’t been judged yet.
Because the readers in both checks worked from the same text our software read, neither check can catch errors in turning a scan into text. No person has checked either sample yet. An earlier check of 40 random homes from the same October reading, by a separate AI checker, matched 92% of 352 values, and the errors it found were fixed before this report.
Later, AI readers went back over the same October readings for the funeral home pages we’re adding to our website. That review, which no person has checked yet, found 170 values on this report’s lists to correct or remove. Most often, we had counted a price for a ceremony at a church or another place as the price of a ceremony at the funeral home. Applied here, those corrections would move no median in Table 1 by more than $5 and none at all in Table 3, and the ceremony row, the most changed, would count 888 lists rather than 945. In Table 2, Illinois’s direct cremation median would be $2,670 rather than $2,650 and Kansas’s would be $2,929 rather than $2,887, each with one list fewer. The tables keep the figures as first read, the ones the checks above tested, without these corrections.
A separately run AI analyst, working only from the raw tables and a written description of each figure, recomputed the figures in the findings and the tables with its own code, and its results match ours (its 95% intervals, drawn at random like ours, came within $25 of ours). It found two problems, both fixed here: 7 lists whose printed date we had misread (we had taken the year from a casket or vault list printed with the price list), and how we chose between equally near lists in the price gap figure.
What this report can’t tell you
- Prices at homes that don’t post. These are prices from homes that post them, about a quarter of the homes we could check. Homes that don’t post may charge more or less. California supplies a quarter of the lists.
- What families actually pay. A price list shows a home’s prices item by item. Families also pay for things the home buys on their behalf or that others charge, such as the cemetery, the crematory, death certificates and obituaries. Many buy packages or get discounts a list doesn’t show.
- Like-for-like in every case. Some homes include the crematory’s fee in their direct cremation price and some list it separately. And some lists price an item by the hour, by the day or for a block of hours, or give only a starting price or an estimate. Table 1 takes each price as printed, so a row can mix those with prices for a whole service, viewing most of all: 135 of its 780 prices are rates, 111 of them by the day.
- Whether any home follows the rules. This report doesn’t assess whether any home’s price list meets the Funeral Rule or state law. Some places have rules of their own about prices online: besides California’s, the District of Columbia’s licensing department lists, among a family’s rights, that a funeral home “must post all of its price lists on any websites that it maintains.”
- Change over time. This is one week’s reading of lists, many printed months or years earlier.
- Every state. We left out Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin. Their license lists come with conditions on reuse we haven’t yet cleared. We don’t yet have license lists for Hawaii or North Dakota. The 36 states and DC in this report had 63% of US deaths in 2024.
- Exact distances. We place most homes at the center of their ZIP code.
How we did it
Who’s counted. Every funeral home and branch on the official license lists of 36 states and DC, as published in October 2026: 14,244 locations. In Illinois, the state’s list covers funeral homes licensed by its Comptroller to sell funerals in advance, which is most but not all of them.
Finding websites. We looked for each home’s website using earlier research, an open dataset of business locations and the home’s name. A site counted only when it printed the home’s phone number or street address, or its name together with its city and state.
| What happened | Homes |
|---|---|
| Showed prices on a site we read | 1,536 |
| Site read in full, no prices found: no price document (3,999), only package or “starting at” prices (203), price lists for other locations only (65), a document with no Funeral Rule prices we could read (54), casket or vault prices only (12) | 4,333 |
| Site found, but it blocked our program part way | 100 |
| Likely site blocked our program | 3,202 |
| Likely site asks automated readers not to visit | 548 |
| Likely site didn’t respond | 484 |
| Site found, but nothing on it tied it to this home | 1,032 |
| No website found | 3,009 |
| All licensed homes and branches | 14,244 |
The posting shares in Finding 1 are out of the first two rows (5,869 homes).
Reading the sites. We read the sites between October 14 and 18, 2026. Our program identified itself as HonestFuneralBot with a link to our website. It followed each site’s robots.txt file (a site’s instructions to automated readers) and any delay it asks for, only read pages (it never filled in a form or logged in), and didn’t try to get around a block. No funeral home was contacted.
Which lists count. A price list counts when we could tie it to a home with confidence: the document prints the home’s phone, street or full name, or the website has only that one home. 1,387 homes met that test. Some companies post one list for several locations. We count each list once, so those 1,387 homes give 1,079 distinct lists. A list used by homes in more than one state (4 lists) counts in each state’s row, and the same goes for counties.
Definitions. Items follow the categories the Funeral Rule requires on a General Price List. The basic services fee is the highest general fee printed, not a reduced fee for particular services. Direct cremation and immediate burial are the lowest printed option among those the Funeral Rule asks for: with the family’s own container, with the home’s simplest container, or with the container not stated. If a list printed only a range, we take its low end. Prices printed only in a package are left out. Other items are the first base price printed for the item, and the alternative container is the cheapest cardboard or fiberboard container printed.
Statistics. We report medians and middle halves (the 25th to the 75th percentile), not the lowest and highest prices, which are the likeliest places for a reading error. The 95% intervals are by bootstrap for medians (2,000 resamples of lists) and by the Wilson method for shares. Each list counts once, however many homes use it. Money is rounded to the nearest dollar. We show no median from fewer than 6 lists.
What’s left out. Prices from 149 homes whose prices came only from a package or price page, or whose list we couldn’t tie to the home with confidence, and prices from our own earlier research by hand. That way one method and one week stand behind every number.
Who made this, and who paid for it
Honest Funeral is free to families, and we take no money from funeral homes or insurers. No one pays us yet. In the future, organizations such as employers may pay us to offer our tools to their people. Our website helps families understand and compare funeral prices. No one paid for this report, and no funeral home saw it before publication.
Reporters and researchers can reach us at press@honestfuneral.co. If you find an error, write to corrections@honestfuneral.co; if we correct this report, we’ll say so on our corrections page.
The data
The three tables below are free to download as CSV files: national items, states and counties. They name no funeral home, and they leave out any figure from fewer than 6 lists.
You may reuse the tables under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC BY 4.0). Please credit “Honest Funeral, The Posted Funeral Price Report, October 2026” and link to this page.
Table 1. Prices on posted lists, 36 states and DC
Forwarding and receiving are for when another funeral home handles part of the arrangements, for example after a death away from home.
| Item | Lists | Median | Middle half | Median, 95% interval |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Direct cremation, lowest option | 940 | $2,198 | $1,628 to $2,825 | $2,100 to $2,295 |
| Immediate burial, lowest option | 865 | $2,995 | $2,395 to $3,620 | $2,940 to $3,035 |
| Basic services of funeral director and staff | 991 | $2,255 | $1,693 to $2,895 | $2,195 to $2,300 |
| Embalming | 971 | $795 | $681 to $950 | $795 to $800 |
| Transfer of remains to the funeral home | 1,002 | $465 | $375 to $589 | $450 to $475 |
| Viewing or visitation (facilities and staff) | 780 | $495 | $375 to $625 | $495 to $500 |
| Funeral ceremony at the funeral home | 945 | $595 | $495 to $775 | $595 to $600 |
| Memorial service at the funeral home | 582 | $600 | $495 to $825 | $595 to $625 |
| Graveside service | 879 | $495 | $375 to $600 | $475 to $495 |
| Hearse | 960 | $400 | $330 to $496 | $400 to $420 |
| Limousine | 477 | $450 | $350 to $595 | $450 to $495 |
| Forwarding remains to another funeral home | 960 | $2,895 | $2,294 to $3,591 | $2,830 to $2,995 |
| Receiving remains from another funeral home | 954 | $2,395 | $1,850 to $2,995 | $2,295 to $2,448 |
| Alternative container (for cremation), lowest | 294 | $125 | $86 to $200 | $105 to $148 |
Table 2. States
“Showing prices” is out of homes whose website we read; under 30 such homes, we give the count only. Price columns show the median and, in parentheses, the number of lists. A median needs at least 6 lists, and medians from few lists are rough: one list can move them. A list used by homes in more than one state counts in each. In some states we could read few homes’ websites, such as Iowa, Massachusetts, Louisiana and West Virginia, and Montana’s lists don’t price these three items.
| State | Licensed homes | Websites we read | Showing prices | Price lists | Direct cremation | Immediate burial | Basic services |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 445 | 135 | 10% (13 of 135) | 11 | $2,495 (9) | $2,948 (8) | $2,398 (10) |
| Alaska | 28 | 12 | 4 of 12 | 1 | (1 list) | (1 list) | (1 list) |
| Arkansas | 362 | 158 | 21% (33 of 158) | 24 | $1,595 (20) | $2,348 (18) | $1,525 (21) |
| California | 1,093 | 439 | 79% (346 of 439) | 270 | $1,895 (219) | $2,598 (204) | $1,885 (256) |
| Colorado | 197 | 103 | 48% (49 of 103) | 42 | $1,950 (37) | $2,605 (32) | $1,985 (40) |
| Delaware | 71 | 27 | 4 of 27 | 4 | (4 lists) | (3 lists) | (4 lists) |
| District of Columbia | 29 | 9 | 4 of 9 | 4 | (4 lists) | (3 lists) | (4 lists) |
| Georgia | 704 | 341 | 23% (77 of 341) | 57 | $2,613 (52) | $3,520 (48) | $2,598 (50) |
| Idaho | 85 | 56 | 38% (21 of 56) | 20 | $1,895 (18) | $2,605 (15) | $2,013 (16) |
| Illinois | 702 | 325 | 19% (61 of 325) | 48 | $2,650 (43) | $3,330 (36) | $2,898 (46) |
| Iowa | 494 | 51 | 29% (15 of 51) | 9 | $3,060 (9) | $3,620 (8) | $3,073 (8) |
| Kansas | 318 | 206 | 34% (71 of 206) | 42 | $2,887 (38) | $3,174 (36) | $2,843 (42) |
| Louisiana | 431 | 49 | 22% (11 of 49) | 7 | $1,860 (7) | $3,000 (7) | $2,000 (7) |
| Maine | 126 | 74 | 22% (16 of 74) | 6 | $2,700 (6) | (5 lists) | $2,435 (6) |
| Maryland | 306 | 140 | 19% (26 of 140) | 19 | $2,950 (17) | $4,075 (17) | $2,600 (17) |
| Massachusetts | 463 | 52 | 31% (16 of 52) | 10 | $2,995 (7) | $3,995 (9) | $3,188 (10) |
| Minnesota | 500 | 271 | 20% (55 of 271) | 30 | $3,220 (29) | $3,885 (23) | $3,268 (30) |
| Mississippi | 439 | 164 | 9% (15 of 164) | 9 | $2,650 (9) | $3,405 (8) | $2,550 (9) |
| Missouri | 638 | 258 | 26% (66 of 258) | 37 | $1,995 (28) | $3,100 (25) | $2,400 (31) |
| Montana | 82 | 43 | 12% (5 of 43) | 2 | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| Nevada | 69 | 38 | 39% (15 of 38) | 10 | $1,700 (9) | $2,800 (9) | $2,283 (10) |
| New Hampshire | 75 | 12 | 7 of 12 | 5 | (4 lists) | (4 lists) | (4 lists) |
| New Jersey | 679 | 267 | 16% (42 of 267) | 31 | $2,638 (26) | $3,725 (27) | $2,675 (27) |
| North Carolina | 787 | 315 | 19% (61 of 315) | 47 | $2,395 (45) | $2,970 (45) | $2,635 (42) |
| Ohio | 1,096 | 568 | 30% (169 of 568) | 106 | $2,295 (93) | $2,760 (86) | $2,000 (98) |
| Oklahoma | 387 | 208 | 20% (41 of 208) | 23 | $2,040 (21) | $2,995 (23) | $2,195 (19) |
| Oregon | 188 | 93 | 35% (33 of 93) | 31 | $1,445 (29) | $2,450 (26) | $1,800 (31) |
| Pennsylvania | 1,492 | 652 | 17% (110 of 652) | 75 | $2,495 (60) | $3,275 (55) | $2,500 (67) |
| Rhode Island | 79 | 7 | 3 of 7 | 2 | (2 lists) | (2 lists) | (2 lists) |
| South Carolina | 179 | 80 | 24% (19 of 80) | 17 | $2,495 (17) | $3,585 (15) | $2,680 (14) |
| South Dakota | 89 | 50 | 0% (0 of 50) | 0 | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| Tennessee | 596 | 272 | 15% (42 of 272) | 32 | $2,300 (29) | $2,795 (25) | $2,095 (29) |
| Utah | 151 | 97 | 26% (25 of 97) | 12 | $1,998 (10) | $2,895 (8) | $2,165 (9) |
| Vermont | 50 | 29 | 8 of 29 | 5 | (4 lists) | (4 lists) | (4 lists) |
| Virginia | 522 | 224 | 19% (42 of 224) | 29 | $2,495 (29) | $2,775 (25) | $2,100 (27) |
| West Virginia | 257 | 22 | 6 of 22 | 4 | (4 lists) | (3 lists) | (3 lists) |
| Wyoming | 35 | 22 | 5 of 22 | 5 | (4 lists) | (4 lists) | (4 lists) |
Table 3. Counties with at least 6 direct cremation lists
| County | Lists | Median | Middle half | Basic services median (lists) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles County, California | 48 | $1,895 | $1,376 to $2,220 | $1,900 (59) |
| Cook County, Illinois | 19 | $2,690 | $2,103 to $3,010 | $2,823 (22) |
| Orange County, California | 18 | $1,495 | $1,040 to $1,995 | $1,555 (24) |
| Riverside County, California | 16 | $1,610 | $1,195 to $1,708 | $1,250 (18) |
| San Diego County, California | 15 | $1,295 | $1,018 to $1,803 | $1,495 (19) |
| Contra Costa County, California | 15 | $2,270 | $2,000 to $2,838 | $2,400 (17) |
| Kern County, California | 11 | $1,495 | $1,195 to $1,993 | $1,725 (9) |
| San Bernardino County, California | 9 | $1,345 | $1,295 to $1,800 | $1,423 (12) |
| Hamilton County, Ohio | 9 | $1,850 | $1,195 to $2,295 | $1,843 (10) |
| Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania | 8 | $1,945 | $1,725 to $2,179 | $2,200 (7) |
| Sacramento County, California | 8 | $2,142 | $1,295 to $2,435 | $1,770 (12) |
| Multnomah County, Oregon | 8 | $1,210 | $1,190 to $1,955 | $2,085 (9) |
| Summit County, Ohio | 8 | $1,998 | $1,049 to $2,746 | $2,000 (7) |
| Lake County, Illinois | 8 | $2,816 | $2,625 to $3,639 | $2,995 (8) |
| Alameda County, California | 7 | $1,995 | $1,923 to $2,848 | $2,895 (8) |
| Santa Clara County, California | 7 | $2,734 | $2,100 to $3,375 | $1,850 (7) |
| San Joaquin County, California | 7 | $2,270 | $1,810 to $2,475 | $2,245 (8) |
| Jefferson County, Colorado | 6 | $1,650 | $1,609 to $1,650 | $1,943 (6) |
| Ramsey County, Minnesota | 6 | $2,573 | $2,184 to $3,104 | $3,017 (6) |
| Jackson County, Missouri | 6 | $1,995 | $1,083 to $2,465 | $2,995 (7) |
| Cuyahoga County, Ohio | 6 | $1,973 | $1,265 to $2,886 | $2,680 (6) |
| Franklin County, Ohio | 6 | $1,490 | $1,024 to $2,845 | $1,830 (6) |
| Santa Barbara County, California | 6 | $2,270 | $1,763 to $2,515 | (5 lists) |
| San Mateo County, California | 6 | $2,100 | $2,005 to $2,221 | $2,300 (7) |
| Lane County, Oregon | 6 | $2,563 | $1,336 to $2,765 | $2,408 (6) |
| Ventura County, California | 6 | $2,323 | $1,720 to $3,450 | (5 lists) |
Sources
- FTC, Complying with the Funeral Rule
- FTC, “FTC Seeks to Improve the American Public’s Access to Funeral Service Prices Online” (October 20, 2022)
- FTC, Funeral Rule Workshop (September 7, 2023)
- Federal Register, FTC notice on the Funeral Rule’s paperwork clearance (May 14, 2026)
- Unified Agenda, FTC, Funeral Industry Practices Rule review (RIN 3084-AB55), Fall 2024: prerule stage, its newest entry
- California Business and Professions Code section 7685, current text (California Legislative Information)
- California SB 658 (2011), the law that added the website rule to section 7685
- Consumer Federation of America and Funeral Consumers Alliance, “Only 18 Percent of 1,046 Funeral Homes in 35 Cities Post Price Lists Online” (June 21, 2022)
- KFF, Total Deaths and Death Rates per 100,000 Population, 2024 (from CDC WONDER)
- DC Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection, Consumer Bill of Rights for Funeral Home Establishments
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