ACCRA Summaries
ACCRA produces the ACCRA Cost of Living Index to provide a useful and reasonably accurate measure of living cost differences among urban areas. Items on which the index is based have been carefully chosen to reflect the different categories of consumer expenditures. Weights assigned to relative costs are based on government survey data on expenditure patterns for professional and executive households. All items are priced in each location at a specified time and according to standardized specifications.
The cost of living index measures relative price levels for consumer goods and services in participating areas. The average for all participating locations, both metropolitan and non-metropolitan, equals 100 and each participant’s index is read as a percentage of the average for all locations. Comparison between selected Tennessee counties are listed below:
| 2005 2nd Quarter | |
| Chattanooga | 112.7 |
| Clarksville | 103.7 |
| Cleveland | 113.7 |
| Cookeville | 97.5 |
| Johnson City | 108.5 |
| Murfreesboro | 123.3 |
| Nashville | 115.5 |
| 2004 4th Quarter | |
| Chattanooga | 109.4 |
| Clarksville | 101.2 |
| Cleveland | 113.0 |
| Cookeville | 97.4 |
| Johnson City | 103.6 |
| Murfreesboro | 106.3 |
| Nashville | 111.0 |
