How much does a funeral cost in New York, NY?

What New York funeral homes actually charge

Everything below this section is modelled from national survey data. This section is not. These are 5 funeral homes trading across 2 towns in the New York area with a direct cremation price we hold. The middle one charges $2,550. Perry Funeral Home Inc in Newark is recorded at $1,500, Buyus Funeral Home Inc in Newark at $3,500, which is 2.3 times the price for the same service inside one metropolitan area.

Of the 5, 1 sit between $1,000 and $1,999, 2 between $2,000 and $2,999, and 2 ask $3,000 or more. Every one 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 $810 less than the $2,639 average.

The first 60 of 68 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.

The calculator is set to New York. The funeral home lines are scaled by what New York homes charge against the New York median, a factor of 0.78, and the plot by local land prices.

What makes up the $14,300 in New York

Basic services fees published by New York homes, set against those across New York, give the funeral home lines a factor of 0.78, that ratio pulled toward the state by how many homes stand behind it. The plot is the exception, scaled by land prices, New York at 148.6 against 122.2 for New York (2024 BEA parities). The full working is on the New York page.

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

Funeral homes in the New York area

The Census counts 999 death care establishments in the New York metro, meaning funeral homes, crematories and cemeteries, employing about 7,054 people (2023 County Business Patterns). We hold a direct cremation price for 5 of them, and the spread between the cheapest and the dearest is $2,000. That is 2.3 times the price for the same service, inside one metropolitan area, which is a larger difference than the one between New York and New York as a whole.

Cremation in New York

Cremation with a service models out at $3,940 here, about $2,490 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 New York homes themselves put the middle direct cremation at $2,550, 5 of them measured, which puts roughly $1,390 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 New York funeral home

All 5 of the homes listed above owe you the same thing on the telephone, without being told who you are. Perry Funeral Home Inc at $1,500 and Buyus Funeral Home Inc at $3,500 are the two ends of it. Working down from the $2,550 in the middle of that list is worth $1,050 before anyone has driven anywhere. What the law requires of New York funeral homes sets out the rest.

Funeral costs across New York · Every state