How much does a funeral cost in Sacramento, CA?

What Sacramento funeral homes actually charge

Everything below this section is modelled from national survey data. This section is not. These are 8 funeral homes trading across 3 towns in the Sacramento area with a direct cremation price we hold. The middle one charges $1,695. All Faith Cremation in Sacramento is recorded from $1,270, Chapel of the Valley in Roseville at $2,245, which is 1.8 times the price for the same service inside one metropolitan area.

Of the 8, 5 sit between $1,000 and $1,999, and 3 between $2,000 and $2,999. 6 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 $360 less than the $1,733 average.

Published June 9, 2026 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 Sacramento.

The calculator is set to Sacramento. The funeral home lines carry the California figures, because we do not yet hold enough published fees for this metro on its own, and the plot is scaled by local land prices.

What makes up the $16,040 in Sacramento

Fewer than 25 Sacramento homes publish a fee, so the funeral home lines here are the California figures and the named prices above are the only local evidence. The plot is the exception, scaled by land prices, Sacramento at 130.2 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 Sacramento area

The Census counts 75 death care establishments in the Sacramento metro, meaning funeral homes, crematories and cemeteries, employing about 656 people (2023 County Business Patterns). We hold a direct cremation price for 8 of them, and the spread between the cheapest and the dearest is $975. That is 1.8 times the price for the same service, inside one metropolitan area, which is a larger difference than the one between Sacramento and California as a whole.

Cremation in Sacramento

Cremation with a service models out at $6,260 here, about $2,120 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 Sacramento homes themselves put the middle direct cremation at $1,695, 8 of them measured, which puts roughly $4,565 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 Sacramento funeral home

All 8 of the homes listed above owe you the same thing on the telephone, without being told who you are. All Faith Cremation from $1,270 and Chapel of the Valley at $2,245 are the two ends of it. Working down from the $1,695 in the middle of that list is worth $425 before anyone has driven anywhere. What the law requires of California funeral homes sets out the rest.

Other metro areas in California

• Los Angeles$16,700
• San Francisco$18,260
• San Diego$16,410

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