This extract mirrors the current PlainCost metro and state tables: 387 metro areas and 51 state-level records, with the same overall, goods, services, and rents Regional Price Parities shown on the site.
Open data layer · BEA RPP 2024
According to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, the current 2024 Regional Price Parities release was issued on February 19, 2026. Its primary metric is a geographic price-level index, not a forecast: the move calculator uses those component indexes only to compare equivalent purchasing power between two metro areas.
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Choose CSV for spreadsheets or JSON for software. Both files are generated from the live PlainCost database, preserve source blanks as blanks, and include the geographic identifier, source year, and all four RPP components.
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rpp_all, rpp_goods, rpp_services, and rpp_rents are annual BEA indexes where 100 equals the U.S. average. population and median_income remain blank when the source-derived database has no value; blanks are not estimates or zeros.
RPP compares relative geographic price levels for a release year. It does not measure a household's actual budget, local inflation, taxes, wages, or housing availability. Use the source year and the underlying BEA release when comparing records.
The PlainCost statistics report explains the current highest, lowest, and fastest-changing price levels. For an individual move, use the move cost calculator instead of treating a regional average as a personal quote.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis Regional Price Parities · 2024 PlainCost generates this extract from the same current database used by its metro and state pages; no values are interpolated or estimated.