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COST OF LIVING
ACCRA Cost of Living Index
For The Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater Area and Other Select Cities
The Cost of Living Index is now available from Thurston Regional Planning Council (TRPC). The index is published by the American Chamber of Commerce Research Association (ACCRA). Approximately 310 cities throughout the United States and Canada participate each quarter.
Cost of living statistics are some of the most commonly requested information provided by TRPC. ACCRA produces the only index of its scale and kind in the United States, allowing users to compare living costs in a particular place to the average of all participating cities. The ACCRA index differs from the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in that the CPI strictly compares costs in one region over time. In contrast, the Cost of Living Index allows for comparisons among many places at one point in time, but does not compare changes over time. Items surveyed include products and services in the categories of groceries, housing, utilities, transportation, health care, and miscellaneous.
Annual 2011
Third Quarter 2011
Second Quarter 2011
First Quarter 2011
Annual 2010
Third Quarter 2010
Second Quarter 2010
First Quarter 2010
Annual 2009
Annual 2008
To obtain cost of living data for other parts of the country,visit the ACCRA website at http://www.accra.org.
For further information on the ACCRA Cost of Living Index in the Olympia region, contact Thurston Regional Planning Council at info@trpc.org, or call
(360) 956-7575 |
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