Michigan City-La Porte, IN: RPP components
BEA 2024 regional context; each category is compared with its own U.S. = 100 benchmark. These are not county price estimates or spending shares.
Black marker: U.S. benchmark = 100 in each row.
LivingCostFacts / metro
Michigan City-La Porte, IN cost of living
The Michigan City-La Porte, IN metro has a 2024 price parity of 91.7, with the U.S. level set to 100.
BEA 2024 · HUD FY2027 · ACS 2020–2024 · CPI through 2026-10
91.7
All-items RPP
BEA 2024
68.5
Housing rent RPP
BEA 2024; U.S. = 100
$1,245
2BR monthly rent
Population-weighted county FMR, FY2027
$71,055
County income benchmark
Weighted mean of county medians, ACS 2020–2024
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Regional Price Parities (RPPs) compare prices across places in the same year. An index of 110 means prices are 10% above the U.S. level; 90 means 10% below. RPP measures relative price levels, while CPI measures price change over time.
Put the benchmark in context
Fair Market Rent (FMR) is HUD’s estimate of the 40th percentile gross rent for standard-quality rental homes occupied by recent movers. It includes rent and most tenant-paid utilities. A household’s actual rent can differ substantially by neighborhood, lease and property.
Monthly rent by bedroom
HUD FY2027 gross monthly FMR; includes most tenant-paid utilities. Dollars per month.
Metro household income here is a population-weighted mean of available member-county median incomes, using HUD pop2024 weights. It is not a published metro median. Rent is weighted in the same way. Counties without an income or rent estimate are omitted from that measure. Membership follows the July 2023 Census CBSA delineation.
No matching BLS metro CPI series is assigned here. The national and regional CPI series on the home page provide wider context, but do not measure this metro’s inflation.
The data in view
Price levels relative to the U.S.
BEA RPP, U.S. = 100 each year. This is not an inflation index.
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| Period or category | Value |
|---|---|
| 2008 | 83.7 |
| 2009 | 87.5 |
| 2010 | 88.9 |
| 2011 | 89.0 |
| 2012 | 88.9 |
| 2013 | 89.7 |
| 2014 | 90.3 |
| 2015 | 87.6 |
| 2016 | 87.1 |
| 2017 | 84.6 |
| 2018 | 91.7 |
| 2019 | 90.0 |
| 2020 | 91.9 |
| 2021 | 90.8 |
| 2022 | 88.6 |
| 2023 | 92.0 |
| 2024 | 91.7 |
Price levels by category
Each category has its own U.S. benchmark of 100. Components are indexes, not spending shares.
| Category | 2024 RPP |
|---|---|
| All items | 91.7 |
| Goods | 94.3 |
| Housing rents | 68.5 |
| Utilities | 86.4 |
| Other services | 99.1 |
Monthly Fair Market Rent by bedroom
HUD 40th percentile gross rent for standard-quality units; includes tenant-paid utilities except telephone, cable and internet. These are benchmarks, not asking-rent medians.
| Home size | FY2027 monthly gross rent |
|---|---|
| Studio | $963 |
| 1 bedroom | $1,031 |
| 2 bedrooms | $1,245 |
| 3 bedrooms | $1,525 |
| 4 bedrooms | $1,762 |
Member counties and equivalents
Income: ACS 2020–2024. Rent: HUD FY2027. Rent / income = 12 × 2BR FMR ÷ median household income; it does not measure actual renter burden.
| County or equivalent | 2BR rent / month | Median household income | Rent / income |
|---|---|---|---|
| LaPorte County | $1,245 | $71,055 | 21.0% |