Cost of Living

ACCRA COST OF LIVING INDEX - FIRST QUARTER 2013
 

About the Cost of Living Index:
C2ER produces the Cost of Living Index to provide a useful and reasonably accurate measure to compare cost of living differences among urban areas. Items on which the Index is based have been carefully chosen to reflect the different categories of consumer expenditures. Weights assigned to relative costs are based on government survey data on expenditure patterns for midmanagement households. All items are priced in each place at a specified time and according to standardized specifications. For more information on the ACCRA Cost of Living Index, please visit the website at http://www.coli.org/.

  100%
Composite
Index
13.36%
Grocery
Items
28.64%
Housing
10.46%
Utilities
10.66%
Transportation
4.44%
Health care
32.44%
Misc.
Goods and
Services
Midland, TX 91.7 89.9 98.2 88.0 96.1 95.2 86.1
Austin, TX 95.4 90.3 86.8 93.0 101.4 108.1 102.3
Dallas, TX 98.8 99.4 76.9 120.5 111.3 102.6 106.2
San Antonio, TX 87.9 81.9 83.5 84.1 92.7 96.5 92.8