How much does a funeral cost in Austin, TX?

What Austin funeral homes actually charge

Everything below this section is modelled from national survey data. This section is not. These are 26 funeral homes trading across 3 towns in the Austin area with a direct cremation price we hold. The middle one charges $2,798. 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 26, 2 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. 24 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 $950 less than the $2,643 average.

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 Austin.

The calculator is set to Austin. The funeral home lines are scaled by what Austin homes charge against the Texas median, a factor of 1.14, and the plot by local land prices.

What makes up the $16,890 in Austin

Basic services fees published by Austin homes, set against those across Texas, give the funeral home lines a factor of 1.14, 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 26 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 $7,580 here, about $1,730 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 $2,798, 26 of them measured, 2 of those under $1,000, which puts roughly $4,782 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 26 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 $2,798 in the middle of that list is worth $2,099 before anyone has driven anywhere. What the law requires of Texas funeral homes sets out the rest.

Other metro areas in Texas

• Dallas$16,150
• Houston$15,410
• San Antonio$15,600

Funeral costs across Texas · Every state