BEA Regional Price Parities by Metro Area
How expensive each of the nation's metropolitan areas is compared with the national average, every year since 2008, for everything people buy and separately for goods, rents, utilities and other services, with each area's price level over time. Use it to compare the cost of living between metro areas, to see how far housing costs set a region apart, or to adjust a comparison of metro incomes or wages for local prices.
- Published by
- U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
- Source
- BEA (regional economic accounts)
- Original data
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- Terms of use
- Public domain
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The term "all items" refers to all the detailed consumption goods and services used in the estimation of the RPPs.
Housing expenditures consist of the monetary rents paid by tenants for tenant-occupied housing, an imputed rental value for owner-occupied dwellings (measured as the income the homeowner could have received if the house had been rented to a tenant), the rental value of farm dwellings, and spending on group housing. Housing price levels are only estimated for tenant-occupied housing.
Metropolitan Areas are defined (geographically delineated) by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) bulletin no. 23-01 issued July 21, 2023.
Fields
What each record holds, as the publisher describes it: 10 fields.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
geoid | Metropolitan statistical area's CBSA code; 00000 the United States, 00999 its nonmetropolitan part |
name | BEA's name for the area |
year | Calendar year |
rpp_all_items | Regional price parity, all items: the price level against the national average, United States = 100 |
rpp_goods | Regional price parity, goods |
rpp_housing | Regional price parity, housing (rents) |
rpp_utilities | Regional price parity, utilities |
rpp_other_services | Regional price parity, other services |
implicit_price_deflator | Implicit regional price deflator, 2017 = 100 for the United States |
codes | BEA's code for each column it published no figure for ({"gdp": "D"}); null when every figure is published |