Index numbers are derived by comparing each individual category for a city to the national average in that category using a percentage ratio. The National Average number is the average from 30 major cities in the United States.
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Index value "average of all 30 cities" equals 100. This is the base used to calculate the index value.
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Materials, installation, composite construction costs in the U.S. 2021, by city
Compared to the overall average of ** different major cities in the United States, building materials in San Francisco were more expensive than in Chicago. Opposed this is a city like Detroit, Michigian, where the price index of building materials was slightly below the average. What this overview tries to do, then, is compare the major cities against each other and whether one was relatively more expensive than the other when it comes to construction costs. This is especially visible for installation - such as HVAC. The city of New York reached an index of *** in ***, meaning installation costs here were around ** percent higher than the average cost for the ** cities combined. Cities found in the state of Texas made up the other end of that spectrum: Installation costs in San Antonio, Houston and Dallas were between ** to ** percent lower than the overall average.
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Metro Denver EDC. (December 15, 2021). Construction materials, installation, and composite construction cost index in the United States in 2021, by city [Graph]. In ÌÇÐÄÆÆ½â°æ. Retrieved July 27, 2026, from /statistics/916435/us-construction-market-cost-index-by-city/
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