How much does a funeral cost in Los Angeles, CA?

What Los Angeles funeral homes actually charge

Everything below this section is modelled from national survey data. This section is not. These are 25 funeral homes trading across 3 towns in the Los Angeles area with a direct cremation price we hold. The middle one charges $1,995. Cedar Hill Mortuary in Los Angeles is recorded from $995, Hillside Memorial Park & Mortuary in Los Angeles at $4,725, which is 4.7 times the price for the same service inside one metropolitan area.

Of the 25, 2 come in under $1,000, 13 sit between $1,000 and $1,999, 5 between $2,000 and $2,999, and 5 ask $3,000 or more. 18 of them publishes a basic services fee as well, the charge you cannot decline whatever else you turn down. Ring three at random rather than one and you would expect to pay $610 less than the $2,147 average.

Published JULY 2024 by the home's own published price list. Prices for other homes on this list carry their own dates, shown on each home's page. They are the figures we hold rather than quotes, several are years old, and no funeral home is bound by them. Where a row says Their prices, the only figure we hold comes from a directory we could not check against the home's own list, so the link goes to the home instead. Every funeral home in Los Angeles.

The calculator is set to Los Angeles. The funeral home lines are scaled by what Los Angeles homes charge against the California median, a factor of 0.97, and the plot by local land prices.

What makes up the $16,700 in Los Angeles

Basic services fees published by Los Angeles homes, set against those across California, give the funeral home lines a factor of 0.97, that ratio pulled toward the state by how many homes stand behind it. The plot is the exception, scaled by land prices, Los Angeles at 170.4 against 154.3 for California (2024 BEA parities). The full working is on the California page.

Why we stopped using a cost of living index for any of this.

Funeral homes in the Los Angeles area

The Census counts 290 death care establishments in the Los Angeles metro, meaning funeral homes, crematories and cemeteries, employing about 5,107 people (2023 County Business Patterns). We hold a direct cremation price for 25 of them, and the spread between the cheapest and the dearest is $3,730. That is 4.7 times the price for the same service, inside one metropolitan area, which is a larger difference than the one between Los Angeles and California as a whole.

Cremation in Los Angeles

Cremation with a service models out at $6,060 here, about $2,160 less than a burial at the funeral home because there is no casket, plot, vault or headstone to buy. Strip the service out and the Los Angeles homes themselves put the middle direct cremation at $1,995, 25 of them measured, 2 of those under $1,000, which puts roughly $4,065 on the ceremony, the viewing and the staff time around it. For a family choosing on price alone that gap is the whole decision, and it is a bigger number than anything the metro comparison above turns on.

Your rights when you ring a Los Angeles funeral home

All 25 of the homes listed above owe you the same thing on the telephone, without being told who you are. Cedar Hill Mortuary from $995 and Hillside Memorial Park & Mortuary at $4,725 are the two ends of it. Working down from the $1,995 in the middle of that list is worth $1,000 before anyone has driven anywhere. What the law requires of California funeral homes sets out the rest.

Other metro areas in California

• San Francisco$18,260
• San Diego$16,410
• Sacramento$16,040

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