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Cost of Living Rankings

Top 25 metro areas by cost index

# Metro Overall
1 San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA 110.4
2 Napa, CA 112.6
3 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA 115.6
4 San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA 111.9
5 Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA 110.5
6 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA 113.6
7 Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA 109.9
8 Boulder, CO 105.2
9 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL 114.2
10 Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA 108.8
11 Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA 111.1
12 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV 108.9
13 Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT Metropolitan Statistical Area 106.9
14 New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ 112.6
15 Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH 108.3
16 Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO 105.8
17 Salinas, CA 109.0
18 San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA 108.6
19 Vallejo, CA 108.5
20 Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA 107.8
21 Bozeman, MT 102.5
22 Urban Honolulu, HI 111.0
23 Trenton-Princeton, NJ 103.2
24 Manchester-Nashua, NH 105.7
25 Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA 106.7