How much does cremation cost in Missouri?
$2,570. That is the median of the figures posted by the 59 funeral homes in Missouri whose price lists we have read for direct cremation. The least expensive of them is $910 and the most expensive is $4,835.
The price lists behind these figures are dated Feb 1, 2021 to Jul 28, 2026. We last checked them between Aug 17, 2026 and Sep 11, 2026.
Every figure is that home's own posted price with its county's permit fee and one certified copy of the death certificate added, wherever both are on file, rounded once. Open a home to change the county or the number of copies.
What this includes
A state's median is the middle of the figures the homes in it show, so it carries the same county fees and the same one certified copy those figures carry.
Narrowing it down by county
| County | Price lists we hold | Least expensive | Median |
| Audrain County | 1 | $3,355 | not enough lists yet |
| Bates County | 2 | $2,060 | not enough lists yet |
| Boone County | 1 | $2,820 | not enough lists yet |
| Callaway County | 1 | $3,435 | not enough lists yet |
| Cass County | 2 | $1,910 | not enough lists yet |
| Clark County | 1 | $2,600 | not enough lists yet |
| Clay County | 4 | $2,270 | $2,940 |
| Greene County | 1 | $1,010 | not enough lists yet |
| Jackson County | 9 | $2,270 | $2,970 |
| Jasper County | 1 | $1,210 | not enough lists yet |
| Jefferson County | 1 | $3,565 | not enough lists yet |
| Lewis County | 1 | $3,495 | not enough lists yet |
| Monroe County | 1 | $4,535 | not enough lists yet |
| Scott County | 1 | $3,285 | not enough lists yet |
| St. Charles County | 1 | $1,010 | not enough lists yet |
| St. Louis County | 4 | $3,565 | $3,565 |
| St. Louis City | 2 | $2,405 | not enough lists yet |
We hold posted prices in 17 of Missouri's 114 counties. We are still collecting in the other 97, and a county is missing from this list because we have not read a price list there yet, not because its funeral homes charge nothing.
The Missouri price lists behind this, for direct cremation
Least expensive first. Every figure links to the funeral home's own page, where the price list it was read from is linked in full.
| Funeral home | Town | Figure |
| Monarch Cremation Society of St Louis | Florissant | $910 |
| Eden Cremation Services | Billings | $1,010 |
| Alternative Funeral and Cremation Services | Saint Peters | $1,010 |
| Eden Cremation Services, LLC | Springfield | $1,010 |
| Southwest Cremation | Springfield | $1,015 |
| Cremation Society of Missouri | Saint Charles | $1,165 |
| Midland Cremation Society | Joplin | $1,210 |
| Heartland Cremation & Burial Society | Raytown | $1,495 |
| Heartland Cremation & Burial Society | Blue Springs | $1,510 |
| Heartland Cremation & Burial Society | Columbia | $1,510 |
| Heartland Cremation & Burial Society | Jefferson City | $1,510 |
| Heartland Cremation & Burial Society | town not recorded | $1,510 |
| Signature Funerals | Kansas City | $1,610 |
| Urban Undertakers Legacy and Cremation | Saint Louis | $1,665 |
| Fitch-Hillis Funeral Home | Poplar Bluff | $1,685 |
| William C. Harris Funeral Directors Spanish Lake Chapel | Saint Louis | $1,710 |
| Jay B. Smith Funeral Homes | Fenton | $1,785 |
| Cullen Funeral Home, Inc. | Raymore | $1,910 |
| Page-Dady Funeral Homes | Stover | $1,945 |
| Longview Funeral Home & Cemetery | Kansas City | $2,005 |
| -Greg D. Mullinax, Owner & Funeral Director | Butler | $2,060 |
| Mullinax Funeral Home & Cremation Services, Inc. | Butler | $2,060 |
| McGilley & George Funeral Home and Cremation Services | Belton | $2,270 |
| McGilley & George Funeral Home and Cremation Services | Grandview | $2,270 |
| Newcomer's Noland Road Chapel | Independence | $2,270 |
| Newcomer's Church-Archer-Pasley Funeral Home | Liberty | $2,270 |
| Hoffmeister Colonial Mortuary | St. Louis | $2,405 |
| Heckart Family Center | Sedalia | $2,510 |
| Heckart Funeral Home & Cremation Services | Sedalia | $2,510 |
| McGilley & Sheil Funeral Home & Cremation Services | Kansas City | $2,570 |
| Vigen Memorial Home | Kahoka | $2,600 |
| Muehlebach Funeral Care | Kansas City | $2,745 |
| Memorial Funeral Home/Columbia | Columbia | $2,820 |
| Terrace Park Funeral Home & Cemetery | Kansas City | $2,910 |
| Newcomer's White Chapel Funeral Home | Gladstone | $2,970 |
| McGilley Antioch Chapel | Kansas City | $2,970 |
| McGilley State Line Chapel | Kansas City | $2,970 |
| Mt. Moriah, Newcomer and Freeman Funeral Home | Kansas City | $2,970 |
| Newcomer's Floral Hills Funeral Home | Kansas City | $2,970 |
| Nunnelee Funeral Chapel | Sikeston | $3,285 |
| Waters Funeral Home | Vandalia | $3,355 |
| Debo Funeral Home | Fulton | $3,435 |
| Debo Funeral Home | Holts Summit | $3,435 |
| Arnold's Funeral Homes | Canton | $3,495 |
| Calcaterra Funeral Home | St. Louis | $3,515 |
| Heiligtag-Lang-Fendler Funeral Home | Arnold | $3,565 |
| Alexander-White-Mullen Funeral Home | St. Ann | $3,565 |
| Hoffmeister South County Chapel | St. Louis | $3,565 |
| Kriegshauser Mortuary-West Chapel | St. Louis | $3,565 |
| Berger Memorial Chapel | St. Louis | $3,765 |
| Carson-Speaks Chapel | Independence | $3,840 |
| Speaks Buckner Chapel | Buckner | $3,855 |
| Speaks Buckner Chapel | Buckner | $3,855 |
| Speaks Suburban Chapel | Independence | $3,855 |
| Ford & Sons Funeral Home | town not recorded | $3,905 |
| Ford & Sons Funeral Home | town not recorded | $3,905 |
| O'Donnell-Thurman Life Celebration Home | Monroe City | $4,535 |
| O'Donnell-Thurman Life Celebration Home | town not recorded | $4,535 |
| James O'Donnell Funeral Home, Inc. | town not recorded | $4,835 |
Other questions about Missouri
No funeral home charges the median. It's where to start, not what you'll pay. The home you call will quote its own price, and the Federal Trade Commission's Funeral Rule requires it to give you a price list you can keep when you sit down with it.
Every funeral home we know in Missouri
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