BEA Regional Price Parities by State
How expensive each state 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 state's income and consumer spending adjusted for both its own price level and inflation. Use it to compare what a paycheck buys from state to state, to see where housing drives the cost of living, or to rank states by real income per person.
- Published by
- U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
- Source
- BEA (regional economic accounts)
- Original data
- apps.bea.gov
- Terms of use
- Public domain
- On the map
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The term "all items" refers to all the detailed consumption goods and services used in the estimation of the RPPs.
Real personal income for states is personal income divided by the RPPs and the national PCE price index. The result is a constant dollar (using 2017 as the base year) estimate of real personal income. Calculations are performed on unrounded data.
Fields
What each record holds, as the publisher describes it: 15 fields.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
geoid | State FIPS code; 00 the United States |
name | BEA's name for the area |
region | BEA region: 1 New England, 2 Mideast, 3 Great Lakes, 4 Plains, 5 Southeast, 6 Southwest, 7 Rocky Mountain, 8 Far West; null for the United States |
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 |
real_personal_income | Real personal income, constant 2017 dollars |
real_per_capita_personal_income | Real personal income per person, constant 2017 dollars |
real_pce | Real personal consumption expenditures, constant 2017 dollars |
real_per_capita_pce | Real personal consumption expenditures per person, constant 2017 dollars |
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 |