Data report · updated November 10, 2026
Ticket Price Index
What does it actually cost to get through the door? This index tracks the median get-in price — the cheapest available ticket for an event, before fees — across 158,396 priced live events currently listed on TheTicketers, in USD. It is rebuilt from our own listing data every day. Figures are free to quote or republish with attribution.
Key findings
- New York, NY has the highest median get-in price of any tracked city at $117 — 2.2× Portland, OR, the cheapest at $53.
- Concerts carries the highest median get-in price at $73, against $36 for Sports.
Median get-in price by category
| Category | Median get-in (USD) | Events |
|---|---|---|
| Concerts | $73 | 121,861 |
| Theatre | $61 | 11,685 |
| Sports | $36 | 24,850 |
Most and least expensive cities
Cities with at least 40 priced events, ranked by median get-in price.
| # | City | Median get-in (USD) | Events |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New York, NY | $117 | 12,472 |
| 2 | Las Vegas, NV | $89 | 19,379 |
| 3 | Phoenix, AZ | $86 | 1,294 |
| 4 | Washington, DC | $84 | 1,817 |
| 5 | Orlando, FL | $84 | 1,169 |
| 6 | Chicago, IL | $81 | 2,800 |
| 7 | Los Angeles, CA | $78 | 2,461 |
| 8 | Nashville, TN | $76 | 1,545 |
| 9 | San Francisco, CA | $76 | 1,633 |
| 10 | Boston, MA | $69 | 1,500 |
| 11 | Milwaukee, WI | $68 | 1,053 |
| 12 | Seattle, WA | $67 | 1,556 |
| 13 | Houston, TX | $66 | 1,450 |
| 14 | San Diego, CA | $66 | 939 |
| 15 | Denver, CO | $63 | 1,383 |
| 16 | Minneapolis, MN | $63 | 1,004 |
| 17 | Austin, TX | $62 | 960 |
| 18 | London, LND | $62 | 11,716 |
| 19 | Cleveland, OH | $59 | 961 |
| 20 | Atlanta, GA | $58 | 1,604 |
| 21 | Dallas, TX | $56 | 1,136 |
| 22 | Philadelphia, PA | $56 | 1,657 |
| 23 | Kansas City, MO | $53 | 989 |
| 24 | Portland, OR | $53 | 1,320 |
Method
- Get-in price means the lowest-priced listing for an event — what it costs to be in the building, not a typical seat. It is the listing price before the ticketing network's service fee, which is added at checkout.
- Median, not average. Resale prices are heavily right-skewed: one VIP box can sit in the same event as a cheap upper-deck seat. The median describes a real buyer; an average does not.
- One currency. Every figure is in USD, the currency of the largest set of priced listings. Prices in other currencies are excluded rather than converted, so no exchange-rate assumption enters the numbers.
- Minimum samples. A city needs 40 priced events and a category 50 before it is published, and the sample size sits beside every figure.
- Scope. These are resale-market listings on TheTicketers, covering events currently on sale. They are not box-office face values.
Citing this data
Journalists, researchers and bloggers are welcome to quote these figures. Please cite TheTicketers Ticket Price Index with a link to theticketers.com/ticket-price-index, and note the date, since the index is rebuilt daily. For a specific cut of the data — a single city, venue or date range — get in touch.
Related
- Cheap tickets — the lowest-priced events on sale right now.
- Ticket prices and fees explained — how the get-in price becomes your final total.
- Pricing & how we work — where these listings come from.