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Plano had the highest Cost of Living Index score among 24 Texas cities.
Most of those 24 urban areas were less expensive than the national average.
Harlingen, Texas, was the least expensive among the 24 Texas locations with scores.
Plano and Dallas are more expensive places to live in Texas than Houston or Abilene, based on a cost of living Index for the third quarter.
The Council for Community and Economic Research, or C2ER, creates a quarterly Cost of Living Index. The index is based on a few different categories, such as utilities and housing. There were 269 urban areas that participated in the third quarter, a press release said.
"The Cost of Living Index measures regional differences in the cost of consumer goods and services, excluding taxes and non-consumer expenditures, for professional and managerial households in the top income quintile," the press release said.
Business Insider also looked at the cost of living for places in Florida and California. While all 10 urban areas in California in the third quarter's analysis had an index above the national average of 100, meaning they're more expensive than the average US urban area in the study, that wasn't true for Texas.
The urban areas of Plano and Dallas were the only two places among the 24 Texas locations that had scores above the national average of 100. Denton, Austin, and McKinney didn't fall too behind the national average though.
The following shows how the 24 Texas urban areas with data for the third quarter ranked among each other, based on the Cost of Living Index from C2ER. We also included several average prices for each location from C2ER that was shared with Business Insider. These prices were based on certain criteria. For instance, home prices is based on newer-construction homes with certain features of the home, among other criteria.
