How much does cremation cost in Tennessee?
$2,888. That is the median of the figures posted by the 46 funeral homes in Tennessee whose price lists we have read for direct cremation. The least expensive of them is $960 and the most expensive is $5,035.
The price lists behind these figures are dated Nov 1, 2023 to Aug 4, 2026. We last checked them between Aug 17, 2026 and Sep 25, 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 |
| Claiborne County | 1 | $2,680 | not enough lists yet |
| Davidson County | 5 | $2,760 | $3,035 |
| Giles County | 1 | $2,930 | not enough lists yet |
| Greene County | 1 | $2,145 | not enough lists yet |
| Hamblen County | 1 | $1,880 | not enough lists yet |
| Hamilton County | 7 | $1,235 | $4,080 |
| Knox County | 8 | $1,200 | $3,875 |
| Lawrence County | 1 | $2,570 | not enough lists yet |
| Rutherford County | 1 | $2,735 | not enough lists yet |
| Shelby County | 6 | $1,780 | $1,780 |
| Sullivan County | 1 | $2,350 | not enough lists yet |
| Washington County | 1 | $2,940 | not enough lists yet |
We hold posted prices in 12 of Tennessee's 95 counties. We are still collecting in the other 83, 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 Tennessee 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 |
| The Cremation Company | town not recorded | $960 |
| Cremation Society of East Tennessee | Knoxville | $1,200 |
| Covenant Funeral & Crematory | Chattanooga | $1,235 |
| M. J. Edwards Funeral Home | Memphis | $1,780 |
| M. J. Edwards Riverdale Life Celebration Center | MEMPHIS | $1,780 |
| M. J. Edwards Funeral Home Stage Road Chapel | Memphis | $1,780 |
| M. J. Edwards Whitehaven Funeral Chapel | Memphis | $1,780 |
| Advantage Funeral & Cremation Services – Franklin-Strickland | Chattanooga | $1,825 |
| Stubblefield Funeral Home | Morristown | $1,880 |
| Sherwood Chapel and Memorial Gardens | town not recorded | $1,905 |
| Crossville Memorial Funeral Home & Crematory, Inc. | Crossville | $1,935 |
| McCarty-Evergreen Funeral Home | Knoxville | $2,080 |
| Kiser-Rose Hill Funeral Home | Greeneville | $2,145 |
| East Lawn Funeral Home and Memorial Park | Kingsport | $2,350 |
| Berry Highland West | KNOXVILLE | $2,430 |
| Thurman Funeral Home, LLC | Sparta | $2,515 |
| Family Funeral Care | Memphis | $2,530 |
| Pettus-Turnbo Funeral Home | Lawrenceburg | $2,570 |
| Coffey Funeral Home | Harrogate | $2,680 |
| Coffey Funeral Home | New Tazewell | $2,680 |
| Roselawn Funeral Home & Memorial Gardens | Murfreesboro | $2,735 |
| Marshall-Donnelly-Combs Funeral Home | Nashville | $2,760 |
| Cisneros Funeral Home | Church Hill | $2,865 |
| Williamson Memorial Funeral Home and Cremation Services | Franklin | $2,910 |
| Carr & Erwin Funeral Home | Pulaski | $2,930 |
| Monte Vista Funeral Home | Johnson City | $2,940 |
| Brentwood-Roesch-Patton Funeral Home | town not recorded | $3,035 |
| Forest Lawn Funeral Home & Memorial Gardens | Goodlettsville | $3,035 |
| Hibbett & Hailey Funeral Home | Nashville | $3,035 |
| Mount Olivet Funeral Home & Cemetery | NASHVILLE | $3,035 |
| Berry Highland South | Knoxville | $3,675 |
| Ponders Funeral Homes Brainerd Chapel | Chattanooga | $3,730 |
| George a. Smith & Sons Funeral Home | Jackson | $3,945 |
| George a. Smith & Sons Funeral Home | Jackson | $3,945 |
| Berry Funeral Home | Knoxville | $4,075 |
| Berry Highland Memorial | KNOXVILLE | $4,075 |
| Berry Lynnhurst Funeral Home | Knoxville | $4,075 |
| Weaver Funeral Home | Knoxville | $4,075 |
| Chattanooga Funeral Home, Crematory & Florist-East Brainerd Chapel | Chattanooga | $4,080 |
| Chattanooga Funeral Home, Crematory & Florist-Valley View Chapel | Chattanooga | $4,080 |
| Chattanooga Funeral Home, Crematory & Florist-East Chapel | East Ridge | $4,080 |
| Chattanooga Funeral Home, Crematory & Florist-North Chapel | Hixson | $4,080 |
| Memphis Funeral Home and Memorial Gardens | Bartlett | $4,245 |
| Memphis Funeral Home | Memphis | $4,245 |
| Woodlawn-Roesch-Patton Funeral Home & Memorial Park | Nashville | $5,035 |
| Hermitage Funeral Home & Memorial Gardens | Old Hickory | $5,035 |
Other questions about Tennessee
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.
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