Insulation cost in Philadelphia: what owners paid (2023 survey)
Philadelphia owners paid a median $1,000 for insulation: $500 below the U.S. median, the lowest of 6 big metros (Census Bureau, 2023).
What Philadelphia owners paid
$1,000
This is historical spending: work done in about 2021 to 2023 on owner-occupied homes, reported in the 2023 survey.
Margin of error ±$491: at 90% confidence the Philadelphia median lies between $509 and $1,491.
How Philadelphia compares
- U.S. median, same work
- $1,500
- Rank, highest first
- 6 of 6
Philadelphia: $1,000. The lowest of the big metros.
9 of the 15 metros have no published figure for this work, so the rank counts the other 6.
No published figure: Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, Phoenix, Riverside, San Francisco, Seattle.
What it covers
Adding or replacing insulation anywhere in the house: attic, walls or floors.
The Census category is “Insulation” within “Interior Additions and Replacements”: what Philadelphia-area homeowners told the Census Bureau they paid, every size of job together.
Before you compare quotes
If your quote is well above $1,000, ask what is in it that the typical job is not. Which surfaces, removal, access and air-sealing tasks are included?
Then put the quotes in your project budget worksheet to see each one's scope beside its price.