During third quarter 2003, the average cost of living as measured with a composite cost of living index was 95.0 near the Southern Carolina area, compared to a national average of 100.0.
| |
Overall |
Housing |
Food |
Transportation |
Health Care |
| New York (NYC) |
189.1 |
279.8 |
142.5 |
119.0 |
184.9 |
| Illinois (Naperville) |
166.0 |
281.2 |
108.7 |
115.7 |
113.0 |
| California (San Francisco) |
209.5 |
366.8 |
118.2 |
141.9 |
147.2 |
|
Georgia (Atlanta) |
111.5 |
126.6 |
106.7 |
100.6 |
115.1 |
| Florida (Miami) |
111.7 |
124.3 |
102.2 |
107.0 |
100.8 |
| Southern Carolina area* |
95.0 |
90.3 |
98.0 |
87.1 |
101.1 |
* Note: The Cost of Living Index measures differences between areas in the cost of consumer goods and services, excluding taxes and non-consumer expenditures, for professional and managerial households. It is based on 59 items, for which prices are collected quarterly by the chamber of commerce, economic development organization or some similar organization in each participating urban area. These scores show the Cost of Living for Orangeburg, SC, an adjacent county with similar attributes.
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