How much does a funeral cost in Columbus, OH?

Funeral homes trading in the Columbus area

Everything below this section is modelled from national survey data. This section is not. These are the 40 funeral homes trading in Columbus. We hold a price from the home's own list or a consumer survey for one of them, too few to say what the area charges, so the rest link to their own prices.

Published September 11, 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 Columbus.

The calculator is set to Columbus. The funeral home lines are scaled by what Columbus homes charge against the Ohio median, a factor of 0.95, and the plot by local land prices.

What makes up the $13,470 in Columbus

Basic services fees published by Columbus homes, set against those across Ohio, give the funeral home lines a factor of 0.95, that ratio pulled toward the state by how many homes stand behind it. The plot is the exception, scaled by land prices, Columbus at 87.9 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 Columbus area

The Census counts 118 death care establishments in the Columbus metro, meaning funeral homes, crematories and cemeteries, employing about 732 people (2023 County Business Patterns). We hold no verified prices for this metro yet, so the figures on this page are modelled rather than local. The gap between two homes in one metro is routinely wider than the gap between two metros, which is why the calls matter more than the map.

Cremation in Columbus

Cremation with a service models out at $5,020 here, about $2,050 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 Columbus homes themselves put the middle direct cremation at $1,495, 1 of them measured, which puts roughly $3,525 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 Columbus funeral home

No Columbus funeral home may make you ask in person. A telephone call, with no name given, obliges them to quote you. What the law requires of Ohio funeral homes sets out the rest.

Other metro areas in Ohio

• Cincinnati$13,600
• Cleveland$13,990

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