Funeral Cost Index launches free local authority pages to help councils and residents compare funeral director prices
Funeral Cost Index has launched a new set of free local authority funeral price pages, revealing wide differences in published funeral costs across the UK.
The new council-level resource compares funeral director prices using published CMA Standardised Price Lists. The dataset currently covers 4,913 funeral directors, with 3,199 providers linked to published price data and 352 councils showing at least one matched priced provider.
Among councils with at least 10 published direct cremation prices, the median local direct cremation price ranges from £1,145 in Flintshire to £2,665 in Elmbridge: a gap of £1,520 for the same broad funeral category.
Lower median direct cremation areas include:
Flintshire: £1,145
Warrington: £1,218
Glasgow City: £1,225
Portsmouth: £1,240
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