According to this map, a big number of the most affordable cities in America are in the South and Midwest.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis recently released its estimates of the relative cost of living in America's metropolitan and rural areas in 2017.The least expensive metro area in the US was Beckley, West Virginia.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis recently released its annual estimates of the relative cost of living in America's metropolitan and rural areas.for 2017. These compare the price levels for various goods and services in different areas to the average national price. For example, the Jackson, Tennessee, metropolitan area had a regional price parity of 82.2. That meant prices there were 82.2% as high as the national average, or in other words, 17.8% lower than average.The map above shows regional price parities for each of America's 383 metropolitan areas and the non-metropolitan areas of states. Regions in blue were less expensive than the national average, and regions in red were more expensive.
Smaller metro areas in the South and Midwest tended to be less expensive than larger cities. All of the 15 cities with the lowest regional price parities were in those two regions.
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