How much does a funeral cost in Denver, CO?

What Denver funeral homes actually charge

Everything below this section is modelled from national survey data. This section is not. These are 30 funeral homes trading across 3 towns in the Denver area with a direct cremation price we hold. The middle one charges $1,372. Infinity Direct Cremations in Denver is recorded at $745, Horan & McCanaty in Aurora at $3,500, which is 4.7 times the price for the same service inside one metropolitan area.

Of the 30, 10 come in under $1,000, 13 sit between $1,000 and $1,999, 6 between $2,000 and $2,999, and 1 ask $3,000 or more. 22 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 $520 less than the $1,490 average.

The first 60 of 79 are listed, homes with a price we could check first. Recorded from Funeral Consumers Alliance survey in September 2026. The source publishes no date of its own. 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 Denver.

The calculator is set to Denver. The funeral home lines are scaled by what Denver homes charge against the Colorado median, a factor of 0.99, and the plot by local land prices.

What makes up the $15,190 in Denver

Basic services fees published by Denver homes, set against those across Colorado, give the funeral home lines a factor of 0.99, that ratio pulled toward the state by how many homes stand behind it. The plot is the exception, scaled by land prices, Denver at 146.9 against 127.4 for Colorado (2024 BEA parities). The full working is on the Colorado page.

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

Funeral homes in the Denver area

The Census counts 70 death care establishments in the Denver metro, meaning funeral homes, crematories and cemeteries, employing about 771 people (2023 County Business Patterns). We hold a direct cremation price for 30 of them, and the spread between the cheapest and the dearest is $2,755. That is 4.7 times the price for the same service, inside one metropolitan area, which is a larger difference than the one between Denver and Colorado as a whole.

Cremation in Denver

Cremation with a service models out at $5,370 here, about $1,930 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 Denver homes themselves put the middle direct cremation at $1,372, 30 of them measured, 10 of those under $1,000, which puts roughly $3,998 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 Denver funeral home

All 30 of the homes listed above owe you the same thing on the telephone, without being told who you are. Infinity Direct Cremations at $745 and Horan & McCanaty at $3,500 are the two ends of it. Working down from the $1,372 in the middle of that list is worth $627 before anyone has driven anywhere. What the law requires of Colorado funeral homes sets out the rest.

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