How much does a traditional funeral cost in North Carolina?
$7,050. That is the median of the figures posted by the 57 funeral homes in North Carolina whose price lists we have read for a traditional funeral. The least expensive of them is $3,860 and the most expensive is $11,840.
The price lists behind these figures are dated Jul 16, 2025 to Aug 18, 2026. We last checked them between Aug 18, 2026 and Oct 10, 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 |
| Brunswick County | 1 | $7,795 | not enough lists yet |
| Burke County | 1 | $4,625 | not enough lists yet |
| Caldwell County | 1 | $4,950 | not enough lists yet |
| Catawba County | 5 | $6,695 | $6,945 |
| Cumberland County | 1 | $9,470 | not enough lists yet |
| Davidson County | 1 | $10,390 | not enough lists yet |
| Forsyth County | 1 | $10,390 | not enough lists yet |
| Gaston County | 2 | $8,725 | not enough lists yet |
| Guilford County | 2 | $4,795 | not enough lists yet |
| Haywood County | 2 | $3,860 | not enough lists yet |
| Hoke County | 1 | $5,595 | not enough lists yet |
| Iredell County | 1 | $6,805 | not enough lists yet |
| Mecklenburg County | 6 | $8,250 | $10,625 |
| Nash County | 1 | $6,745 | not enough lists yet |
| New Hanover County | 1 | $9,620 | not enough lists yet |
| Randolph County | 2 | $4,795 | not enough lists yet |
| Rowan County | 1 | $6,735 | not enough lists yet |
| Union County | 1 | $9,025 | not enough lists yet |
| Wilson County | 1 | $7,580 | not enough lists yet |
We hold posted prices in 19 of North Carolina's 100 counties. We are still collecting in the other 81, 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 North Carolina price lists behind this, for a traditional funeral
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 |
| Crawford Ray Funeral Home, Cremation Services and Memorial Gardens | town not recorded | $3,860 |
| Burthey Funeral Service | Durham | $4,025 |
| Kirksey Funeral Home | Morganton | $4,625 |
| Advantage Funeral & Cremation Services-Archdale | Archdale | $4,795 |
| Advantage Funeral & Cremation Services – Greensboro | Greensboro | $4,795 |
| Pendry's Lenoir Funeral Home | Lenoir | $4,950 |
| Highlands Cremation & Funeral Home | town not recorded | $5,055 |
| Daniels-Sadler Funeral Home & Crematory | Alliance | $5,160 |
| Cotten Funeral Home | New Bern | $5,175 |
| Robinson Funeral Home | Littleton | $5,180 |
| Entrusted to Us | town not recorded | $5,280 |
| Wells Funeral Home and Cremation Services at Forest Lawn Memorial Park | town not recorded | $5,480 |
| Wells Funeral Home and Cremation Services at Forest Lawn Memorial Park | Canton | $5,480 |
| Crumpler Funeral Home | Raeford | $5,595 |
| Johnson Funeral Home and Cremation Services, LLC | Rocky Mount | $6,195 |
| Garrett Funeral Home | Waynesville | $6,280 |
| Hickory Funeral Home | Hickory | $6,695 |
| Linn-Honeycutt Funeral Home | China Grove | $6,735 |
| Wheeler and Woodlief Funeral Home | Rocky Mount | $6,745 |
| Andrews Mortuary Valley Chapel Andrews Mortuary Hampstead | Hampstead | $6,765 |
| Catawba Memorial Park, Funerals & Cremations | Hickory | $6,775 |
| Andrews Mortuary Valley Chapel Andrews Mortuary Hampstead | Wilmington | $6,775 |
| Bunch-Johnson Funeral Home | Statesville | $6,805 |
| Drum Funeral Home-Hickory | Hickory | $6,945 |
| Willis-Reynolds Funeral Home | Newton | $6,975 |
| Hartsell Funeral Home, Inc. | Albemarle | $7,050 |
| Hartsell Funeral Home, Inc. | town not recorded | $7,050 |
| Hartsell Funeral Home, Inc. | Harrisburg | $7,050 |
| Hartsell Funeral Home, Inc. | Midland | $7,050 |
| Drum Funeral Home-Conover | Conover | $7,145 |
| Thomas-Yelverton Funeral Svc | Wilson | $7,580 |
| Groce Funeral Home & Cremation Service | town not recorded | $7,665 |
| White Funeral & Cremation Service | Bolivia | $7,795 |
| White Funeral & Cremation Service | Shallotte | $7,795 |
| Peacock, Newnam & White Funeral White Funeral and Cremation | Southport | $7,795 |
| Loflin Funeral Home | Liberty | $7,800 |
| Affordable Funerals and Cremations of Davidson County, LLC | Lexington | $8,010 |
| McEwen Funeral Service-Derita Chapel | Charlotte | $8,250 |
| Wilson Funeral & Cremation Service | Charlotte | $8,250 |
| Carothers Funeral Home at Gaston Memorial Park | Gastonia | $8,725 |
| McEwen Funeral Home of Monroe | Monroe | $9,025 |
| Carothers Funeral Home | Dallas | $9,075 |
| Carothers Funeral Home | Stanley | $9,075 |
| Reeves Funeral Home | Hope Mills | $9,470 |
| McLaurin Funeral Home | Clayton | $9,545 |
| Coble Funeral and Cremation Service at Greenlawn Memorial Park | Wilmington | $9,620 |
| Frank Vogler & Sons Vogler Funeral and Cremations At | Clemmons | $10,390 |
| Sechrest-Davis Funerals And | High Point | $10,390 |
| Sechrest-Davis Funerals And | Thomasville | $10,390 |
| Frank Vogler & Sons Vogler Funeral and Cremations At | Winston Salem | $10,390 |
| McEwen Funeral Service-Mint Hill Chapel | Charlotte | $10,525 |
| McEwen Funeral Service at Sharon Memorial Park | Charlotte | $10,725 |
| Hanes Lineberry Funeral Home | Greensboro | $10,865 |
| McEwen Funerals and Cremations at Forest Lawn West | Charlotte | $10,905 |
| McEwen Funeral Service-Pineville Chapel | Charlotte | $11,225 |
| Brown-Wynne Funeral Home | Cary | $11,840 |
| Brown-Wynne Funeral Home | Raleigh | $11,840 |
Other questions about North Carolina
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 North Carolina
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