How much does a funeral cost in Philadelphia, PA?

What Philadelphia funeral homes actually charge

Everything below this section is modelled from national survey data. This section is not. These are 70 funeral homes trading across 3 towns in the Philadelphia area with a direct cremation price we hold. The middle one charges $1,850. Kenneth William Murphy Funeral Home in Philadelphia is recorded at $750, McCrery & Harra Funeral Homes and Crematory, Inc. in Wilmington from $4,650, which is 6.2 times the price for the same service inside one metropolitan area.

Of the 70, 3 come in under $1,000, 41 sit between $1,000 and $1,999, 17 between $2,000 and $2,999, and 9 ask $3,000 or more. 68 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 $630 less than the $2,003 average.

The first 60 of 135 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 Philadelphia.

The calculator is set to Philadelphia. The funeral home lines are scaled by what Philadelphia homes charge against the Pennsylvania median, a factor of 0.91, and the plot by local land prices.

What makes up the $15,870 in Philadelphia

Basic services fees published by Philadelphia homes, set against those across Pennsylvania, give the funeral home lines a factor of 0.91, that ratio pulled toward the state by how many homes stand behind it. The plot is the exception, scaled by land prices, Philadelphia at 113.1 against 85.1 for Pennsylvania (2024 BEA parities). The full working is on the Pennsylvania page.

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

Funeral homes in the Philadelphia area

The Census counts 435 death care establishments in the Philadelphia metro, meaning funeral homes, crematories and cemeteries, employing about 2,740 people (2023 County Business Patterns). We hold a direct cremation price for 70 of them, and the spread between the cheapest and the dearest is $3,900. That is 6.2 times the price for the same service, inside one metropolitan area, which is a larger difference than the one between Philadelphia and Pennsylvania as a whole.

Cremation in Philadelphia

Cremation with a service models out at $6,660 here, about $1,990 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 Philadelphia homes themselves put the middle direct cremation at $1,850, 70 of them measured, 3 of those under $1,000, which puts roughly $4,810 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 Philadelphia funeral home

All 70 of the homes listed above owe you the same thing on the telephone, without being told who you are. Kenneth William Murphy Funeral Home at $750 and McCrery & Harra Funeral Homes and Crematory, Inc. from $4,650 are the two ends of it. Working down from the $1,850 in the middle of that list is worth $1,100 before anyone has driven anywhere. What the law requires of Pennsylvania funeral homes sets out the rest.

Other metro areas in Pennsylvania

• Pittsburgh$16,390

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