Hawaii Has the Most Expensive Mostly Everything – Even Bedrooms
- New data reveals how much a bedroom’s worth of space costs in each state.
- Hawaii has the most expensive bedrooms in the US, with a bedroom’s worth of space costing an average of $62,094.
- In Hawaii, the price of a bedroom is nearly four times higher than the average cost of a bedroom in the US.
- Washington has the US’s second most expensive bedrooms, with the space of a bedroom costing $44,748 in the state.
Hawaii has the most expensive bedrooms in the US, new research reveals.
In Hawaii, a bedroom’s worth of space costs $62,094 – over four times more expensive than the average cost of a bedroom in the US ($16,303), and well above the cost of a bedroom in Washington, the state with the second most expensive bedrooms.
The research by sleep experts Amerisleep used US census data to find the average price of a square foot of property in every state, and used this data to discover how much it costs to purchase the size of the average American bedroom (134 square feet) in each state.
The states with the most expensive bedrooms
| State | Rank | Cost of average bedroom (134 sq. feet) per state | Total value of average home | Average size of home (square ft.) | Average cost of one square foot |
| Hawaii | 1 | 62094 | 615300 | 1,308 | 470 |
| Washington | 2 | 44748 | 339000 | 1,000 | 339 |
| California | 3 | 41022 | 505000 | 1,625 | 311 |
| Massachusetts | 4 | 28883 | 381600 | 1,744 | 219 |
| New Jersey | 5 | 25459 | 335600 | 1,740 | 193 |
| New York | 6 | 23474 | 313700 | 1,764 | 178 |
| Oregon | 7 | 23152 | 312200 | 1,780 | 175 |
| Maryland | 8 | 21643 | 314800 | 1,920 | 164 |
| Colorado | 9 | 21315 | 343300 | 2,126 | 161 |
| Nevada | 10 | 20656 | 267900 | 1,712 | 156 |
Washington has the second most expensive bedrooms in the US, with a bedroom’s worth of space costing $44,748 in the state – almost three times higher than the mean cost of the average American bedroom.
California also has some of the most expensive bedrooms in the US. In California, a bedroom would cost $41,022 – over double the average price of a US bedroom.
Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York are also high on the list of states with the costliest bedrooms. In Massachusetts, a space the size of the average bedroom would set you back $28,883, while in New Jersey you would pay $25,459 for a bedroom’s worth of space. In New York, a bedroom would cost $23,474.
At the other end of the scale, Mississippi is the state with the cheapest bedrooms, with a bedroom’s amount of space in the state costing $8,360 – nearly eight times cheaper than a bedroom in Hawaii, and half the national average cost of a bedroom.
The states with the cheapest bedrooms
| State | Rank | Cost of average bedroom (134 sq. feet) per state ($) | Total value of average home | Average size of home (square ft.) | Average cost of one square foot |
| Mississippi | 1 | 8360 | 119000 | 1,879 | 63 |
| West Virginia | 2 | 9211 | 119600 | 1,714 | 70 |
| Arkansas | 3 | 9414 | 127800 | 1,792 | 71 |
| Oklahoma | 4 | 10342 | 136800 | 1,746 | 78 |
| Alabama | 5 | 10465 | 142700 | 1,800 | 79 |
| Kentucky | 6 | 10635 | 141000 | 1,750 | 81 |
| Indiana | 7 | 10737 | 141700 | 1,742 | 81 |
| South Dakota | 8 | 11118 | 167100 | 1,984 | 84 |
| Texas | 9 | 11211 | 172500 | 2031 | 85 |
| Kansas | 10 | 11252 | 151900 | 1782 | 85 |
In West Virginia, the average cost of a bedroom is $9,211, making it the state with the second cheapest bedrooms in America. A bedroom in West Virginia is more than six times cheaper than one in Hawaii, and well below the national average price of $16,303 for a bedroom.
Oklahoma also has some of the lowest prices for a bedroom in America, with space the size of the average bedroom costing $10,342 in the state. Alabama and Kentucky are among the cheapest states for bedrooms, as well – in Alabama, the size of the average US bedroom would cost $10,465, while in Kentucky the price would be $10,635.
