Overall
- Greeley
- 100.2
Diff -1.5 RPP
Greeley vs Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands
Cost of living comparison based on BEA Regional Price Parities. Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands is 1.5% less expensive than Greeley.
1.5% less expensive
Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX is 1.5% less expensive than Greeley, CO on BEA Regional Price Parities (overall RPP 98.6 vs 100.2). A $100,000 salary in Greeley buys about the same as $98,456 in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands; the largest component gap is services.
- Overall RPP 100.2 (Greeley) vs 98.6 (Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands)
- $100k in Greeley ≈ $98,456 purchasing power in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands
- Services drives the gap (+13.3 RPP points)
RPP parity plate
Pair CO:TX 100.2→98.6
PHOTO-FINISH · CROSS-STATE · SPLIT-BUDGET · BENCH-CROSS · PP-PAR
- PHOTO-FINISH Photo finish
- CROSS-STATE CO × TX
- SPLIT-BUDGET Split budget
- BENCH-CROSS Benchmark cross
- PP-PAR PP near-par
Instrument codes from this pair's BEA Regional Price Parities (overall · goods · services · rents · national benchmark 100 · purchasing-power conversion), not a ranking or recommendation.
Greeley
100.2
Cost Index
Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands
98.6
Cost Index
What This Comparison Actually Tells You
Greeley, CO and Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX are a photo finish on overall price level, only 1.5 RPP points apart. A salary conversion is therefore a fine adjustment, not evidence of a fundamentally different cost regime.
Services creates the largest separation: Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands is 13.3 points higher. But services and goods move against the overall direction, so this is a split budget rather than a clean across-the-board winner.
Comparable population context is incomplete for this pair, so no market-scale explanation is inferred from the price indexes.
This route crosses the national benchmark: Greeley is above 100 while Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands is below it. That makes the move a change of price regime, not merely a rank swap.
For a service-heavy household, test childcare, health, and other locally supplied costs before relying on rent alone. The BEA ratio converts $100,000 in Greeley to $98,456 in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, but it is not a personal spending weight.
Category Breakdown
Goods
- Greeley
- 96.1
Diff +4.6 RPP
Services
- Greeley
- 82.0
Diff +13.3 RPP
Rents
- Greeley
- 112.6
Diff -8.1 RPP
| Category | Greeley | Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 100.2 | 98.6 | -1.5 |
| Goods | 96.1 | 100.6 | +4.6 |
| Services | 82.0 | 95.3 | +13.3 |
| Rents | 112.6 | 104.5 | -8.1 |
Visual Comparison
Overall
Greeley 100.2
Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands 98.6
Goods
Greeley 96.1
Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands 100.6
Services
Greeley 82.0
Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands 95.3
Rents
Greeley 112.6
Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands 104.5
Vertical line = national average (100)
How the Price Gap Changed
Greeley and Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands share 17 published annual releases from 2008 through 2024. Their overall gap held broadly steady, moving from 1.7 to 1.5 RPP points. Greeley remained the higher-index metro in the latest release.
Goods changed the most within this pair: its gap moved 16.7 points between the first and latest shared releases (12.1 to 4.6 points). This describes a relative price-index history, not a forecast or a household budget.
| Release Year | Greeley RPP | Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands RPP | Relative Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 101.1 | 99.4 | 1.7 points Greeley higher |
| 2012 | 100.7 | 100.0 | 0.6 points Greeley higher |
| 2016 | 100.1 | 102.4 | 2.2 points Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands higher |
| 2020 | 97.5 | 100.0 | 2.5 points Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands higher |
| 2024 | 100.2 | 98.6 | 1.5 points Greeley higher |
Annual BEA Regional Price Parity releases; a higher index means a higher price level relative to the national average of 100. Selected years shown from the full shared series.
Salary Equivalents
What a salary in Greeley would need to be in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands for the same purchasing power:
| In Greeley | In Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| $50,000 | $49,228 | $-772 |
| $75,000 | $73,842 | $-1,158 |
| $100,000 | $98,456 | $-1,544 |
| $150,000 | $147,684 | $-2,316 |
$ in Greeley = in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands
Same BEA Regional Price Parity ratio as the table above (100.2 → 98.6), computed live from your number, nothing is sent anywhere.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands more expensive than Greeley?
Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands is 1.5% less expensive than Greeley. The overall cost index is 98.6 vs 100.2 (national average = 100).
What salary in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands equals $100K in Greeley?
A $100,000 salary in Greeley has the same purchasing power as $98,456 in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands. This is based on the BEA Regional Price Parity indexes.
How do rents compare between Greeley and Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands?
Rents in Greeley are indexed at 112.6 while Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands is at 104.5 (national average = 100). Greeley has higher rents.
Data sources
- BEA Regional Price Parities (RPP), the cost-of-living indices shown on this page
- U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS), gross-rent observations behind the rents component
- BLS Consumer Price Index (CPI), goods and services price relatives
- BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), labor-driven services component
- HUD Fair Market Rents (FMR), 40th-percentile rent cross-reference
Every figure on PlainCost is rendered directly from BEA Regional Price Parity source data, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, our changelog, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-08-11. Rankings measure the published cost-of-living index only; we don't recommend where to live or rate any metro's quality of life.