How much does a funeral cost in Cleveland, OH?

What Cleveland funeral homes actually charge

Everything below this section is modelled from national survey data. This section is not. These are 31 funeral homes trading in Cleveland with a direct cremation price we hold. The middle one charges $2,295. Lakewood Crematory in Cleveland is recorded at $995, Ross C. Dejohn & Sons, Inc. in Cleveland at $3,950, which is 4 times the price for the same service inside one metropolitan area.

Of the 31, 1 come in under $1,000, 10 sit between $1,000 and $1,999, 14 between $2,000 and $2,999, and 6 ask $3,000 or more. 26 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 $710 less than the $2,356 average.

The first 60 of 72 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 Cleveland.

The calculator is set to Cleveland. The funeral home lines are scaled by what Cleveland homes charge against the Ohio median, a factor of 1.06, and the plot by local land prices.

What makes up the $13,990 in Cleveland

Basic services fees published by Cleveland homes, set against those across Ohio, give the funeral home lines a factor of 1.06, that ratio pulled toward the state by how many homes stand behind it. The plot is the exception, scaled by land prices, Cleveland at 79.4 against 73.0 for Ohio (2024 BEA parities). The full working is on the Ohio page.

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

Funeral homes in the Cleveland area

The Census counts 175 death care establishments in the Cleveland metro, meaning funeral homes, crematories and cemeteries, employing about 1,408 people (2023 County Business Patterns). We hold a direct cremation price for 31 of them, and the spread between the cheapest and the dearest is $2,955. That is 4 times the price for the same service, inside one metropolitan area, which is a larger difference than the one between Cleveland and Ohio as a whole.

Cremation in Cleveland

Cremation with a service models out at $5,610 here, about $2,020 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 Cleveland homes themselves put the middle direct cremation at $2,295, 31 of them measured, 1 of those under $1,000, which puts roughly $3,315 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 Cleveland funeral home

All 31 of the homes listed above owe you the same thing on the telephone, without being told who you are. Lakewood Crematory at $995 and Ross C. Dejohn & Sons, Inc. at $3,950 are the two ends of it. Working down from the $2,295 in the middle of that list is worth $1,300 before anyone has driven anywhere. What the law requires of Ohio funeral homes sets out the rest.

Other metro areas in Ohio

• Cincinnati$13,600
• Columbus$13,470

Funeral costs across Ohio · Every state