CHILLICOTHE, Ohio — A family of four from Ross County would need to spend an estimated $1,771 to attend a Cincinnati Bengals home game this season, according to a new county-by-county analysis from Doc’s Sports.
The study priced out a trip for a family of four from nearly every U.S. county to that county’s nearest NFL stadium. For Ross County, the nearest team is the Bengals, who play at Paycor Stadium in Cincinnati, about 108 miles from Ross County and a 216-mile round trip.
The estimate includes $1,630 for four resale tickets together, $22 for parking, $80 for stadium food and drinks — four hot dogs, four sodas and two beers — and $39 in gas for the round trip, according to the study.
Doc’s Sports calculated the figures using median Gametime resale prices for four seats together across the Bengals’ remaining home games as of Oct. 28, AAA state gas averages, federal GSA hotel rates and U.S. Census Bureau median family income data for each county.
Ross County’s median family income is $80,731 a year, the study said, meaning a single trip to see the Bengals would cost about 26% of a typical family’s monthly pre-tax income. Nationally, the typical U.S. family spends about $1,351 to see its nearest NFL team, according to the study — meaning the Ross County trip costs roughly 1.3 times the national average.
Saving for a single game would require setting aside about $148 a month for a year, the study found.
Doc’s Sports has published sports analysis since 1971. The full county-by-county study is available on the company’s website.
