Pizza in Durham

10 restaurants in Durham list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is Pop's Backdoor at $9.00, listed as Cheese Pizza. The typical price across town is $16.95, and the dearest we found is $19.50 at Ricky's New York Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $10.50 apart, which is 117% more for the same dish. Of the 10 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track pizza in 1058 other areas and compare them all on pizza across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so Durham is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 121 of the 1058. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.49 at Bellacino's Pizza & Grinders in Troy, MI, and the highest best price is $18.00 in Tacoma, WA. The nearest area with it is Chapel Hill, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $10.00.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Durham? Pop's Backdoor, at $9.00 on 3710 Shannon Rd. The same dish reaches $19.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.50.

What should pizza cost here? About $16.95 is the typical price across the 10 kitchens in Durham that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 are more than a dollar below that and 2 are more than a dollar above, so the typical price is a middle rather than a floor.

Is it cheaper nearby? The nearest area we track it in is Chapel Hill, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $10.00. That is $1.00 more than the best price here.

Why do the prices differ so much? We compare what each menu calls the same dish, and menus are not identical: portion, cut, sides and the kind of room you are sitting in all ride on the price, and none of that shows up in a number. Part portions and half sizes are kept out of this comparison, and a chain charging the same at several addresses is counted once, so the spread above is between genuinely different kitchens rather than the same one repeated.