Calif. Dominates List of Most Expensive Cities for Doing Business

CLAREMONT – For eighteen years, the Kosmont-Rose Institute Cost of Doing Business Survey has documented the high cost attached to doing business in California.

The Survey is conducted by the Rose Institute of State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College in collaboration with Kosmont Companies.

The latest edition, released last month and the nineteenth in the annual series, examines the cost of doing business in California and eight other Western states considered competitors: Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, and Washington.

No one is likely to be surprised that twelve of the twenty most expensive cities in the survey are in California with Los Angeles and San Francisco at the top of that list. Many might be surprised to find Bell, Compton, and Inglewood also among the twenty most expensive.

None of Orange County’s cities make the top twenty most expensive list.

One Orange County City — Mission Viejo — landed on the twenty least expensive list.

Texas takes bragging rights for earning six slots on the twenty least expensive list.

For those interested in detailed information, individual city profiles are available for purchase, or the entire survey by CD.

Full story by Shelley Henderson at oc-breeze.com.