Where the funeral would take place

Sets the likely age at death

Sex (life table)
Spouse or child for the $255

Savings, a payable-on-death account

Any policy the family could use

More: your own price list total, funeral price trendNow: Price list total none, state figure used · Prices rise 2.6% a year

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BLS funeral index, 2015 to 2025

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Still to cover at age 85

$10,426

Half the people of this age and sex in Texas live past 85.3. If it happened today, $4,868 would be left to pay.

Spent per death in Texas, today$8,123
Same at age 85, 2.6% a year$13,681
VA burial and plot allowancenone
Social Security lump sum− $255
Set aside and cover held− $3,000
Final expense gap$10,426

What funeral homes, cemeteries and crematories in Texas took in per death in 2022 (Census), brought to September 2026 with the BLS funeral index (× 1.161). It counts every kind of funeral, burial and cremation alike, plus pre-need sales: an average, not a quote. Median age at death from the NCHS 2022 life table of the state. Estimate only, not advice.

How this is calculatedCensus, BLS, NCHS and VA figures. No quote form, no phone number.

Funeral Costs by State · Independent tool by Radif Partners, not an insurer, a broker, a funeral home or a government agency · worked out in your browser

Life tables: Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, United States Life Tables, 2024, and U.S. State Life Tables, 2022, available free of charge at cdc.gov. Use of this material does not imply endorsement by the CDC, NCHS or the U.S. government. Death-care revenue and deaths: U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Economic Census and Vintage 2024 population estimates; the per-death figures are our own calculations. Funeral prices: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index.