Pizza in Somerville

18 restaurants in Somerville list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is Gaya Pizzeria at $7.95, listed as Plain Cheese Pizza. The typical price across town is $13.50, and the dearest we found is $23.00 at Josephine, so the two ends of the list are $15.05 apart, which is 189% more for the same dish. Of the 18 kitchens listed, 6 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 7 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 Somerville is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 561 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 Cambridge, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $9.50.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Somerville? Gaya Pizzeria, at $7.95 on 8 Highland Ave. The same dish reaches $23.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $15.05.

What should pizza cost here? About $13.50 is the typical price across the 18 kitchens in Somerville that list it. Of the ones listed above, 6 are more than a dollar below that and 7 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 Cambridge, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $9.50. That is $1.55 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.