October 2026 · 11 independent restaurants
Average burger price in Houston, TX: $10.00
We checked 11 independent restaurant menus across Houston, Katy. The median burger costs $10.00. Prices run from $6.50 to $16.00. Chains are excluded, and every price links to the menu where we saw it.
Just added · all 11 checked today
$10.00
Median burger · 11 independents
$6.50–$16.00
Range, cheapest to priciest
1.5 lb
of South region retail ground beef ($6.50/lb, Sep 2026) costs the same as the median burger
The restaurants
Every burger we checked in Houston
Sorted from cheapest to priciest. Click a column to re-sort. The status column shows how fresh each price is.
| Big John's IceHouse | Houston TX | Big John's Hamburgerrestaurant's own online-ordering menu | $6.50 | Fresh · checked today |
| Betelgeuse Betelgeuse | Houston TX | Bar Burger | $9.00 | Fresh · checked today |
| OMG! Burger | Houston TX | OMG Smashlisted "$9.95+"; small local group | $9.95 | Fresh · checked today |
| TMG Burger Grill | Katy TX | Hamburger | $9.95 | Fresh · checked today |
| The Burger Joint | Houston TX | Classic (single)2 locations | $9.99 | Fresh · checked today |
| Stanton's City Bites | Houston TX | Classic Burger | $10.00 | Fresh · checked today |
| Miller's Cafe | Houston TX | Hamburgersmall local group | $10.00 | Fresh · checked today |
| Jus' Mac | Houston TX | Cheeseburger | $14.00 | Fresh · checked today |
| Cobos | Houston TX | Mac & Bacon Cheeseburgeronly burger listed | $15.00 | Fresh · checked today |
| Bungalow Heights | Houston TX | Heights Classic Burger | $15.00 | Fresh · checked today |
| Cottonwood | Houston TX | Classic Cheeseburger | $16.00 | Fresh · checked today |
11 restaurants · median $10.00 · Download CSV · Each link goes to the page where we saw the price.
How the status badges work
- Up $1.00 · 2 wks ago Down $0.50 · 3 days ago A later check found a different price than the one before it. Shown for 60 days after the check that found it.
- Holding · 4 wks The same price on at least two checks. The time shown is only the span we verified, from the first check at this price to the latest. We never assume a price held between checks.
- Fresh · checked today First checked today, so there's nothing to compare against yet.
- New this week Added in the last 7 days, one check so far.
- Checked 3 wks ago One check, older than a week. Stale · checked 2 mos ago Not re-checked in 45+ days.
Badges are worked out from each price's first-seen and last-checked dates, then recalculated in your browser against today's date. Hover over or tap a badge to see the exact dates.
The cost side
Beef costs for Houston
BLS publishes a Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land index for "meats, poultry, fish, and eggs" (CUURS37BSAF112), but no beef-only or dollars-per-pound series at the metro level.
Ground beef, $/lb
Local meat prices (metro CPI)
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
How much is a burger in Houston?
In our October 2026 check of 11 independent restaurants in the Houston, TX area, the median burger price was $10.00. Prices ranged from $6.50 (Big John's IceHouse, Big John's Hamburger) to $16.00 (Cottonwood, Classic Cheeseburger). Chains are excluded.
Where is the cheapest burger in Houston in this index?
The three lowest prices we found: Big John's IceHouse in Houston TX, Big John's Hamburger at $6.50; Betelgeuse Betelgeuse in Houston TX, Bar Burger at $9.00; OMG! Burger in Houston TX, OMG Smash at $9.95. Prices can change, so check the restaurant's menu before you go.
Are burgers more expensive in Houston than in other metros?
Houston's median is $10.00. The other metros we track: Providence $16.48; Boston $17.50; Sarasota–Tampa $14.95; New York $16.75; Los Angeles $10.25; Chicago $16.95; Dallas–Fort Worth $9.99; Miami $14.50; Washington, DC $16.49; Atlanta $14.00; Philadelphia $12.25; Seattle $13.99. For a national reference, Toast's Menu Price Monitor reported a $14.80 median restaurant burger in September 2026 (source). That figure includes chains.
How do Houston burger prices compare with beef prices?
BLS doesn't publish a ground beef price for individual metros. The closest public series is the South region average retail price for 100% ground beef: $6.50/lb in September 2026. At that price, the median Houston burger costs about the same as 1.5 lb of ground beef. The BLS Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land index for meats, poultry, fish and eggs is up 40% since January 2019 (Sep 2026), compared with 41% for the U.S. city average.
Are restaurants in Houston raising burger prices?
We can't say yet. Every Houston price in the index has been checked once (Oct 17, 2026), and the Price Pulse only compares a restaurant's price with its own previous check. It will show raises, cuts and holds after the next monthly check.
How are these prices collected?
We read each independent restaurant's own website, menu PDF or ordering page and record the cheapest standard full-size beef burger. Kids, happy-hour, late-night and slider prices are skipped, and so are menus we couldn't verify. Every row links to its source. See the methodology.
How often is this page updated?
Menus are re-checked monthly, and each price shows a status badge (New, Holding, Up, Down, Stale) based on its check dates. The current prices were checked Oct 17, 2026 to Oct 17, 2026.