Metro-level planning benchmark
U.S. Home Cost Index
100 equals the U.S. baseline. A value of 84 is about 16% below the benchmark; 127 is about 27% above it. Values are estimates, not contractor quotes.
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U.S. Home Cost Index · May 2025
U.S. baseline100
Derived by HomeCostTotals from official U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS data; BLS does not publish the Home Cost Index.
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HomeCostTotals. "U.S. Home Cost Index." HomeCostTotals, updated August 14, 2026. https://homecosttotals.com/data/home-cost-index/
Home Cost Index by metro
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Showing 1–25 of 393 metro areas.
| Data period | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abilene, TX | TX | 90.45 | 80.91 | -9.55% | 2025-05 |
| Aguadilla, PR | PR | 82.50 | 65.00 | -17.50% | 2025-05 |
| Akron, OH | OH | 100.39 | 100.78 | +0.39% | 2025-05 |
| Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY | NY | 101.92 | 103.85 | +1.92% | 2025-05 |
| Albany, GA | GA | 88.16 | 76.32 | -11.84% | 2025-05 |
| Albany, OR | OR | 108.73 | 117.47 | +8.73% | 2025-05 |
| Albuquerque, NM | NM | 94.14 | 88.28 | -5.86% | 2025-05 |
| Alexandria, LA | LA | 88.64 | 77.28 | -11.36% | 2025-05 |
| Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ | PA-NJ | 98.13 | 96.26 | -1.87% | 2025-05 |
| Altoona, PA | PA | 94.16 | 88.32 | -5.84% | 2025-05 |
| Amarillo, TX | TX | 91.08 | 82.15 | -8.92% | 2025-05 |
| Ames, IA | IA | 95.94 | 91.88 | -4.06% | 2025-05 |
| Amherst Town-Northampton, MA | MA | 104.37 | 108.73 | +4.37% | 2025-05 |
| Anchorage, AK | AK | 109.72 | 119.44 | +9.72% | 2025-05 |
| Ann Arbor, MI | MI | 100.16 | 100.32 | +0.16% | 2025-05 |
| Anniston-Oxford, AL | AL | 88.84 | 77.68 | -11.16% | 2025-05 |
| Appleton, WI | WI | 105.35 | 110.71 | +5.35% | 2025-05 |
| Arecibo, PR | PR | 82.50 | 65.00 | -17.50% | 2025-05 |
| Asheville, NC | NC | 93.88 | 87.75 | -6.12% | 2025-05 |
| Athens-Clarke County, GA | GA | 89.73 | 79.47 | -10.27% | 2025-05 |
| Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA | GA | 94.28 | 88.57 | -5.72% | 2025-05 |
| Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ | NJ | 100.13 | 100.26 | +0.13% | 2025-05 |
| Auburn-Opelika, AL | AL | 87.88 | 75.77 | -12.12% | 2025-05 |
| Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC | GA-SC | 90.81 | 81.62 | -9.19% | 2025-05 |
| Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX | TX | 95.59 | 91.17 | -4.41% | 2025-05 |
No metro areas match those filters.
How to read the index
The Labor Cost Index compares a metro’s selected construction-occupation wage basket with the national basket. The Home Cost Index combines that local labor measure with a national material baseline using a transparent 50/50 representative-project split.
Formula: Home Cost Index = 0.50 × 100 + 0.50 × Labor Cost Index. Materials remain at 100 because HomeCostTotals does not have a sufficiently strong geographic material-price source.