Download the data
Every number on this site is downloadable, and every row carries the agency that published it and the date the data refers to. Nothing here is scraped or crowdsourced.
Per-city CSV
One request per city returns every metric we hold for it:
GET /api/v1/cities/austin-tx metric,label,value,moe,unit,asOf,geo_level,source,source_url
- New York, NYCSV
- Los Angeles, CACSV
- Chicago, ILCSV
- Houston, TXCSV
- Phoenix, AZCSV
- Philadelphia, PACSV
- San Antonio, TXCSV
- San Diego, CACSV
- Dallas, TXCSV
- San Jose, CACSV
- Austin, TXCSV
- Jacksonville, FLCSV
Any city with a page has an endpoint — swap the slug from its URL. Browse them all under cost of living.
What's in it
994 cities across 51 states, 7,952 cited data points, latest vintage 2026-06-30.
- Census ACS 5-Year — U.S. Census Bureau
- BEA Regional Price Parities — U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (state level)
- EIA Electricity Retail Sales — U.S. Energy Information Administration (state level)
- BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics (May 2023) — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (metro level)
A figure published at state or metro level is labelled as such on the page and in the CSV's geo_level column. Do not read one as a city figure. Every row also carries its margin of error where the agency publishes one — see the API reference for all nine columns.
Licence and reuse
The underlying data is public domain U.S. government work and carries no restriction from us. Our compilation, calculators and explanations are offered under CC BY 4.0.
Please credit the originating agency alongside this site — every page carries a ready-made citation in APA, MLA, Chicago and BibTeX.
Restricted datasets (Zillow, Numbeo) are not reproduced here; see sources for what we do and do not hold.