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Funeral homes, with prices and where they came from

19,805 funeral homes trading today, across all fifty states and the District of Columbia, out of 28,359 records in all. 12,404 of them carry prices, 3,742 more have a licence the board records as closed, and 4,812 are registry records nothing confirms. Which is which is printed on every page, because a directory that blurs those four together is worse than no directory.

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Records held
28,359
Trading
19,805
With a price
12,404
Closed on a roster
3,742

Snapshot September 2026. The two published figures usually quoted for the size of this industry are the Census Bureau's 15,183 funeral home establishments with paid employees (County Business Patterns 2023, NAICS 812210) and the NFDA's 15,401. We show 19,805 trading, about 130% of the Census figure, and the gap is worth explaining because it is a difference of definition rather than of accuracy.

The Census counts businesses with paid employees. State licensing boards register every establishment, which includes crematories, branch chapels and mortuaries operating under a parent business, and single-owner homes with no payroll that the Census never sees. Where a board publishes its roster we track the roster, so those states read above the Census figure. Colorado holds 218 licensed establishments against a Census count of 122, and Louisiana 504 against 249, both of which are correct and are measuring different things. Where a board publishes nothing usable we read low until national directories fill the gap. California sits at 404 homes corroborated by two sources against a Census count of 794, and reaches 851 once listings carried by a single directory are counted.

We tested whether that single source tier is padding. Matching it against the corroborated tier on phone number, on name and city, and on street and city, 5% of those records look like a home we already hold under another entry. The rest are distinct businesses in exactly the states whose boards refused us. They are labelled on every row they appear on, so you can judge them, but they are not filler.

Four kinds of record, kept apart

What it isHow it got hereRecords
Trading, corroboratedA licensing board lists it active, or two independent sources carry it. The strongest tier and the bulk of the directory15,155
Trading, one sourceOne directory carries it and nothing corroborates, almost always a state whose board publishes no roster we can read. 5% overlap an entry we already hold, the rest are distinct businesses4,650
ClosedA board records the licence closed, cancelled, expired, revoked or surrendered3,742
UnconfirmedA corporate or tax registry name match, or a map pin, with nothing confirming a funeral home trades there4,812

Only the first two appear in a price comparison, on a map, or in any count of funeral homes in a city. The other two are published because "did this funeral home close" and "what was this business" are questions people genuinely ask and nobody else answers, and they are labelled on every page they appear on.

Three things this directory does that others do not

Every price carries its age

A 2014 cremation price presented as current is worse than no price, because a family arrives with a number in their head and concludes they are being overcharged. Where a source published a date we print the date. Where it did not, we say we recorded the figure in September 2026 and leave you to judge it.

Nobody can pay to rank higher

Listings are ordered by whether we hold a price and then alphabetically. There is no paid placement, no sponsored row and no charge to a funeral home for appearing, being corrected or being removed. If that ever changes, it will be disclosed on this page before it changes anywhere else.

The sources are linked

State licensing rosters, the NFDA member directory, Funeral Consumers Alliance price surveys, the Green Burial Council, OpenStreetMap and the Parting directory. Every home's page lists which of those carry it, with the link, so you can check us in one click.

The bill this is all measured against

A traditional burial with a viewing averages $8,300 at the funeral home. The cemetery then bills separately for the plot, opening and closing the grave, the vault and the headstone, which takes the real figure to about $15,395. Almost nobody is quoted that second number until the first is already agreed. See the breakdown for your state.

Funeral homes by state

AlabamaArizonaCaliforniaColoradoFloridaGeorgiaIllinoisIndianaKentuckyMarylandMichiganMissouriNew YorkNorth CarolinaOhioOklahomaPennsylvaniaTennesseeTexasWisconsin

20 of 51 states have live city pages today, 40 cities in all out of 6,496. The rest arrive on their own release dates, a batch every weekday, finishing in June 2027. Nothing is published before it has been read.

Common questions

Where does this directory get its funeral homes?

State licensing board rosters in every state that publishes one, the NFDA member directory, the Parting funeral home directory, twenty-one Funeral Consumers Alliance affiliate price surveys, the Green Burial Council, Wikidata and OpenStreetMap. A home is shown as trading and corroborated only when its state board records it active or when two of those sources independently carry it. Two listings from the same source is not corroboration, and a record that reaches only that bar is labelled as carried by one source.

Can a funeral home pay to appear higher?

No. Homes are ordered by whether we hold a price for them and then alphabetically, never by payment. There is no charge to be listed, corrected or removed, and there never will be for a home correcting its own entry. Any future paid tier will be disclosed here and will not change the order.

How old are the prices?

They vary, which is why every price on this site is shown with its age. Funeral Consumers Alliance survey figures carry the date the affiliate published them, and some are more than a decade old. Prices from directory sources that publish no date are labelled as recorded by us in September 2026. Under the FTC Funeral Rule any funeral home must quote you its current prices over the telephone, so treat every figure here as a starting point for that call.

A listing is wrong. How do I fix it?

Every page carries a correction link that reaches us directly, and every funeral home page has one at the top and the bottom. Send the correction, or send a current price list and we will replace what we hold. If you would rather show no prices at all, say so and we will remove them. There is no charge for any of that.

Is this every funeral home in the country?

It is every record we hold, and where the trading count falls short of the official one we say so on the state page. Each state page shows our trading count against the Census Bureau's establishment count for that state. California and Wisconsin sit near half, because their licensing boards publish nothing usable. Louisiana and Mississippi read above 100% because their boards licence branches and crematory authorities separately while the Census counts only businesses with paid employees.

Why are closed funeral homes listed at all?

Because "is this funeral home still open" is asked constantly, usually by someone holding a prepaid funeral contract or an old funeral card, and almost nothing on the web answers it. Each closed record shows the board's own status wording, the licence number, and the homes still trading in the same city. None of them appears in a price comparison, on a map, or in any count of funeral homes in a city.

Are funeral home email addresses published here?

No, and they will not be. The research behind this directory holds several thousand funeral home email addresses, gathered from the homes' own websites to contact them about their own listings. Publishing that as a list would hand it to every spammer who found it. Business phone numbers are published because the businesses publish them themselves; email addresses are not.

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