Residential construction cost data by market
The labor and material cost data behind Clear Estimates, the estimating software remodeling contractors use to price their jobs. For insurers, iBuyers and proptech teams pricing reconstruction and renovation.
What the data covers
- Labor rates for 350 U.S. pricing areas.
- 12,000+ cost items for residential remodeling work.
- Updated every quarter, from 20+ years of cost research.
- Modeled project costs: what a job should cost in a market, not transaction prices or wages paid.
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Recent research
- The limits of cost per square foot: what it really costs to build a house in every U.S. ZIP codeA price per square foot leaves out what you build, where you build it, and how big it is. The same Cape Cod costs nearly twice as much in one ZIP code as in another, and $348 a square foot at 800 square feet but $204 at 3,000.
- Labor or materials: what's driving residential construction cost increases?Since 2019, materials drove about half to three-quarters of the rise in modeled project costs, and labor the rest. Where you build, and what you build, decide the split.
- Labor drives regional cost variations more than the materials: four common projects in 349 marketsWe priced a composite deck, a bathroom remodel, a roof replacement and a two-car garage in all 349 Clear Estimates markets. Materials cost more in some markets than others, but labor varies far more, so the more labor a job takes, the more its price moves.