Regional price parities (RPP)
Regional price parities (a cost-of-living index by state, nation = 100) and real, price-adjusted per capita personal income by state, from the Bureau of Economic Analysis regional accounts.
Publisher
- Organization
- U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
- Publisher’s dataset
- Regional Price Parities by State and Real Personal Income by State
- File or API used
- https://apps.bea.gov/regional/zip/SARPP.zip
- Retrieval script
scripts/fetch-bea-sarpp.py- Methodology
- https://www.bea.gov/resources/methodologies/rpp
Coverage
- Geography
- Nation and states
- Time coverage
- 2008-2024
- Update frequency
- Annual
- Published
- February 19, 2026
- Retrieved
- September 9, 2026
- License of the records
- Public domain. U.S. federal government work.
- Rows
- 5,304 observations, 2008-2024
Measures
| Measure | What it measures | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Regional price parity | Price level relative to the national average (nation = 100.000), by category: all items, goods, or one of three services groups. | index |
| Real per capita personal income | Per capita personal income adjusted for the state's regional price level and the national PCE price index, in constant 2017 dollars. | usd |
Caveats
- Only the all-items regional price parity is normalized to 100 for the nation; the goods and services sub-lines are not separately renormalized.
- The Services: Housing line is a rent-based cost index (contract and imputed rents), not a home-price measure.
- Real per capita personal income differs from bea-sainc's per capita personal income, which is nominal, current-dollar and not price-parity-adjusted.
- A cell coded (NA) (not available) or (NM) (not meaningful) is omitted, never recorded as zero; District of Columbia is included as a state-type geography.
- Metro-area price parities exist for five Idaho metro areas but are not included here; county-level price parities are not published at all.
Pages built on this dataset
How to cite
Understand Idaho, “Regional Price Parities by State and Real Personal Income by State”, compiled from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities by State and Real Personal Income by State. Retrieved September 9, 2026. https://understandidaho.com/data/bea-sarpp/.
Cite U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis directly for the figures themselves.
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