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How much does a funeral cost in Austin, TX?
A traditional burial with a service in the Austin metro area averages $9,320 at the funeral home. Once the cemetery has billed, families typically pay closer to $16,920, which is about 9% above the Texas figure of $15,590. The metro takes in Round Rock and San Marcos as well as Austin.
What Austin funeral homes actually charge
Everything below this section is modelled from national survey data. This section is not. These are 29 funeral homes trading across 3 towns in the Austin area with a direct cremation price we hold. The middle one charges $2,499. Affordable Burial & Cremation Services in Austin is recorded at $699, Mission Serenity Chapel (South Side) in Austin at $4,210, which is 6 times the price for the same service inside one metropolitan area.
Of the 29, 5 come in under $1,000, 7 sit between $1,000 and $1,999, 4 between $2,000 and $2,999, and 13 ask $3,000 or more. 27 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 $980 less than the $2,473 average.
| Funeral home | Where | Direct cremation | Basic services fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Affordable Burial & Cremation Services | Austin, TX | $699 | $750 |
| Angel Funeral Home - Austin | Austin, TX | $995 | $2,495 |
| ATX Cremation | Austin, TX | $995 | |
| Green Cremation Texas | Austin, TX | $995 | $500 |
| Helping Hands Funeral and Cremation Services | Austin, TX | $995 | $1,500 |
| Austin Cremations | Austin, TX | $1,157 | |
| Phillips-Upshaw & Richard Funeral Home | Austin, TX | $1,310 | $1,250 |
| Fuller-Sheffield Funeral Home | Austin, TX | $1,540 | $1,450 |
| Simple Tradition, A (no website) | Austin, TX | $1,540 | $1,940 |
| Green Cremation and Burial Texas | Austin, TX | $1,795 | $2,800 |
| Green Cremation and Burial Texas | Austin, TX | $1,795 | $2,800 |
| Green Cremation and Burial Texas | Round Rock, TX | $1,795 | $2,800 |
| Austin Natural Funerals | Austin, TX | $2,350 | $3,200 |
| All Faiths Funeral Services | Austin, TX | $2,395 | $2,800 |
| Neptune Society | Austin, TX | $2,499 | $975 |
| King - Tears Mortuary Inc | Austin, TX | $2,590 | $2,495 |
| Beck Funeral Home | Austin, TX | $3,005 | $3,695 |
| Los Angeles Funeral Home | San Marcos, TX | $3,110 | $1,995 |
| Life Celebration by Franklin, A | Austin, TX | $3,190 | $2,195 |
| Harrell Funeral Home | Austin, TX | $3,395 | $2,920 |
| Harrell Funeral Home of Dripping Springs | Austin, TX | $3,395 | $2,920 |
| Austin-Peel & Son Funeral Home | Austin, TX | $3,420 | $2,350 |
| Pennington Funeral Home | San Marcos, TX | $3,430 | $3,395 |
| Cook-Walden Funeral Home #4884 | Austin, TX | $3,630 | $5,495 |
| Cook-Walden Chapel of the Hills #4885 | Austin, TX | $3,755 | $5,445 |
| Cook Walden/Forest Oaks Funeral Home/Mem Pk #0752 | Austin, TX | $3,755 | $5,445 |
| Weed Corley Fish Funeral Homes and Cremation Servi | Austin, TX | $3,755 | $3,295 |
| Mission Funeral Home (East Side) | Austin, TX | $4,210 | $2,350 |
| Mission Serenity Chapel (South Side) | Austin, TX | $4,210 | $2,825 |
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. Every funeral home in Austin.
Estimated burial with a service in Austin
- Funeral home services, viewing and ceremony$6,980
- Casket, standard$2,340
- Cemetery plot$2,410
- Opening and closing the grave$1,730
- Burial vault or grave liner$1,590
- Headstone or marker$1,870
Most families have no plan for this
A burial insurance policy is written to cover exactly this amount. It pays out in days rather than months, and for most people over 50 there is no medical exam, only health questions.
The calculator is set to Austin. The funeral home lines are scaled by what these 27 homes charge against the Texas median, a factor of 1.15, and the plot by local land prices.
What makes up the $16,920 in Austin
| Item | Billed by | Austin | Texas |
|---|---|---|---|
| Funeral service with viewing | Funeral home | $6,980 | $6,080 |
| Casket, standard steel | Funeral home | $2,340 | $2,450 |
| Cemetery plot | Cemetery | $2,410 | $1,930 |
| Opening and closing the grave | Cemetery | $1,730 | $1,510 |
| Burial vault or grave liner | Cemetery | $1,590 | $1,660 |
| Headstone or marker | Monument dealer | $1,870 | $1,960 |
| Total | $16,920 | $15,590 |
The 27 published fees above put Austin at $2,800 against $2,050 across Texas, so the funeral home lines carry a factor of 1.15, that ratio pulled toward the state by how many homes stand behind it. The plot is the exception, scaled by land prices, Austin at 120.4 against 96.5 for Texas (2024 BEA parities). The full working is on the Texas page.
Why we stopped using a cost of living index for any of this.
Funeral homes in the Austin area
The Census counts 54 death care establishments in the Austin metro, meaning funeral homes, crematories and cemeteries, employing about 507 people (2023 County Business Patterns). We hold a direct cremation price for 29 of them, and the spread between the cheapest and the dearest is $3,511. That is 6 times the price for the same service, inside one metropolitan area, which is a larger difference than the one between Austin and Texas as a whole.
Cremation in Austin
Cremation with a service models out at $7,600 here, about $1,720 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 Austin homes themselves put the middle direct cremation at $2,499, 29 of them measured, 5 of those under $1,000, which puts roughly $5,101 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 Austin funeral home
All 29 of the homes listed above owe you the same thing on the telephone, without being told who you are. Affordable Burial & Cremation Services at $699 and Mission Serenity Chapel (South Side) at $4,210 are the two ends of it. Working down from the $2,499 in the middle of that list is worth $1,800 before anyone has driven anywhere. What the law requires of Texas funeral homes sets out the rest.
Covering $16,920 in Austin
$16,920 is the number a policy here would be written for, and it is $1,330 more than the Texas average, which is the sort of thing people get wrong when they pick a round figure. It pays out in days rather than weeks, and for most people over 50 there is no medical exam.
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How much does a funeral cost in Austin?
About $16,920 for a burial with a viewing once the cemetery has billed, of which $9,320 goes to the funeral home and $7,600 to the cemetery and the monument dealer. The funeral home half is the West South Central survey median moved by what 27 Austin homes actually publish, and the cemetery half by local land prices. They are estimates, not quotes.
Is a funeral more expensive in Austin than the rest of Texas?
Yes, by about 9%, $16,920 against $15,590, and it is mostly the land under the plot rather than the funeral home. Inside the metro the same direct cremation runs from $699 to $4,210, a wider gap than the one between Austin and Texas.
How much does cremation cost in Austin?
The middle of the 29 Austin area homes we hold a price for charges $2,499 for a direct cremation, from $699 at Affordable Burial & Cremation Services up to $4,210 at Mission Serenity Chapel (South Side). Add a service and the model puts it near $7,600. Every price here is one we hold rather than a quote, several are years old, and each carries its own date on that home's page.
Which funeral home is cheapest in Austin?
Affordable Burial & Cremation Services in Austin, at $699, and 4 other Austin area homes are also under $1,000. Mission Serenity Chapel (South Side) is $3,511 higher for the same service. Prices move and several of ours are years old, so treat the list as where to start ringing, worth about $980 on three calls, not as the answer.
Does every Austin funeral home charge a basic services fee?
Yes, all of them, and in Austin the published ones run $500 to $5,495 with $2,800 in the middle, across the 27 we hold. It is the charge you cannot decline whatever else you turn down, so it sets the floor under everything else on this page, and Affordable Burial & Cremation Services, cheapest here on cremation at $699, asks $750 for it.
Other metro areas in Texas
- Dallas$16,140
- Houston$15,450
- San Antonio$15,570