Funeral Cost Index Intelligence
The UK funeral market, in structured data.
Pricing, market share and captured price-list coverage - built from published Standardised Price Lists across the UK funeral sector.
- Providers indexed
- 4,913
- Price lists captured
- 3,520
- Coverage
- 72%
What’s included
Regional pricing reports
Direct cremation by UK region: median, interquartile range and full spread of captured prices, with the sample size. Refreshed from the weekly capture of published Standardised Price Lists.
Captured price-list coverage
The share of listed funeral directors in each region whose published price list we have captured. A provider we have not captured may be one whose list we cannot reach, so this is coverage, not a test of compliance with the CMA Order.
Market share by ownership
Branch counts and share for Co-op Funeralcare, Dignity, Funeral Partners and the independent market, across the whole index.
Chain vs independent comparison
Median captured direct cremation and attended funeral prices by ownership group, with the sample behind each.
Provider-level rows
The latest captured prices for every funeral director, with ownership classification, source URL and capture date, plus the price movements we can attribute to a provider repricing (recorded from September 2026).
CSV export
Every report exports to CSV, and the dashboard has a print view you can save as PDF, for board packs, investment memos or trade-body reporting.
Insurer partnerships
A current funeral-market series for life and over-50s teams
We turn weekly source monitoring into stable briefings for product, actuarial, insight, and corporate-affairs teams. Source attribution is welcomed when findings are published, but a link is never a condition of access.
Who it’s for
- Life insurersFuneral-cost inflation, regional adequacy context, proposition reviews, and citable customer communications.
- Funeral groupsCompetitive pricing intelligence, regional benchmarks, M&A target analysis.
- Private equity & investorsMarket share by ownership group and chain-versus-independent pricing for acquisition and exit work.
- Trade bodies & associationsPrice-list coverage by region, member benchmarking, sector reporting.
- Policy & regulatorsPrice transparency tracking, market concentration, consumer impact.
- Consultants & advisersUnderpinning data for client engagements and sector reports.
Why this dataset
The Competition and Markets Authority’s Funerals Market Investigation Order 2021 made every UK funeral director publish a Standardised Price List in a fixed format. Funeral Cost Index is, to our knowledge, the first project to capture, normalise, and structure those lists at national scale. The result is a like-for-like dataset of UK funeral pricing that did not previously exist.
We re-read each provider’s website weekly, classify by ownership group where it can be identified, geocode branches, and keep every captured price change since April 2026. The Intelligence product surfaces that dataset as reports, charts, and exports designed for professional use.
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We’re onboarding early users now. Pricing depends on scope - single-report, subscription, or enterprise/API.