A public ZIP ledger
Same life.Different ZIP.
TrueCost reports what life actually costs by ZIP: rent, car payments, daycare, groceries, and the monthly cash left after all of it.
Browse without an account. Values are ZIP-level aggregates, never personal records.
The rulebook
No login to browse.
The map and ZIP search are public from the first visit.
Three people before a number.
Every public ZIP is a current-quarter median from at least three distinct contributors.
No official comparison theater.
Official-data comparisons are pending a vetted source. This ledger shows reported costs only.
Public ZIP explorer
What life costs, by ZIP.
No ZIP has reached the privacy threshold yet.
Checking the current ledger. Published costs always require three distinct contributors.
Geometry is intentionally optional: search any ZIP above. The explorer publishes ZIP-level aggregates only—never personal entries.
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Contributors enter six facts and may revise their current-quarter ZIP entry. The public side only receives safe medians, not rows.
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Official-data gap: pending.
TrueCost will not invent an “official” benchmark. This view stays deliberately blank until a vetted source is connected.