How much does a funeral cost in Houston, TX?

Funeral homes trading in the Houston area

Everything below this section is modelled from national survey data. This section is not. These are the 86 funeral homes trading across 2 towns in the Houston area. 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.

The first 60 of 86 are listed, homes with a price we could check first. Published February 15, 2025 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 Houston.

The calculator is set to Houston. The funeral home lines are scaled by what Houston homes charge against the Texas median, a factor of 0.93, and the plot by local land prices.

What makes up the $15,410 in Houston

Basic services fees published by Houston homes, set against those across Texas, give the funeral home lines a factor of 0.93, that ratio pulled toward the state by how many homes stand behind it. The plot is the exception, scaled by land prices, Houston at 104.5 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 Houston area

The Census counts 226 death care establishments in the Houston metro, meaning funeral homes, crematories and cemeteries, employing about 2,326 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 Houston

Cremation with a service models out at $6,200 here, about $2,010 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 Houston homes themselves put the middle direct cremation at $1,495, 1 of them measured, which puts roughly $4,705 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 Houston funeral home

No Houston 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 Texas funeral homes sets out the rest.

Other metro areas in Texas

• Dallas$16,150
• Austin$16,890
• San Antonio$15,600

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