Hamburger
Hamburger at McDonald's. 250 calories, $2.19, 12 g protein.
Photograph from McDonald's, as published on its own menu.
How it compares on the McDonald's menu
At 250 calories it is lighter than 57% of the 624 McDonald's items we track, against a menu median of 281. Its nutrition score is C — average. About typical for fast food. It ranks 15th of 46 scored McDonald's items. It delivers 4.8 g of protein per 100 calories, 57th of 174 items with published protein. At 114 calories per dollar it is 73rd of 184 priced items on value.
The same thing at other chains
| Chain | Item | Calories | Nutrient density |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wendy's | Jr. Hamburger | 230 | — |
| Wendy's | Kids' Hamburger | 230 | — |
| Burger King | Hamburger | 260 | 10.32 |
| Burger King | Kid's Hamburger | 260 | — |
| Wendy's | Classic Single Hamburger, no cheese | 465 | 9.85 |
What a Hamburger costs across America
Priced at 12234 McDonald's restaurants in 50 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $1.79 and $2.79, a spread of 56%.
Each bar is the number of restaurants charging that price, and the gold bar holds the median. The last gathers everything at that price and above, so one distant outlier cannot flatten the rest.
Point at a bar, or tab to it, for the count and the share of restaurants at that price.
The cheapest Hamburger in the sample is $0.99 in Superior, WI, and the most expensive is $4.17 in Windsor Locks, MA. Both are single restaurants, which is why the headline above uses the middle 80% instead.
The same map as the rest of the site. Each pin is one restaurant that sells a Hamburger. Green is cheap for the brand, red is expensive. Zoom, switch items, or tap Cheapest near me.
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By state, for what it is worth
About half the variation happens between restaurants inside one state, so a state median hides as much as it shows. Of the 50 states with at least three sampled restaurants, these are the four cheapest and the four most expensive — the 42 in between are not listed.
| State | Median | Restaurants | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| TX | $1.69 | 1067 | cheapest |
| OK | $1.89 | 163 | cheapest |
| MI | $1.89 | 486 | cheapest |
| LA | $1.89 | 190 | cheapest |
| AK | $3.25 | 19 | most expensive |
| ND | $2.84 | 16 | most expensive |
| HI | $2.79 | 62 | most expensive |
| CA | $2.79 | 1119 | most expensive |
What it has cost since we started watching
355 of the 12,238 restaurants we price have changed this since 2026-09-01. Where it moved, the typical change was +8.2%. A typical one now charges $2.19.
2026-09-01 · $2.19 to 2026-09-26 · $2.19. Point at a day, or tab to it, for that day's median and how many restaurants it came from.
The median across the restaurants priced each day. It can step when our coverage of the chain grows, which is why the sentence above counts restaurants rather than reading this line.
See every Hamburger we price on the map — 12,234 restaurants, one dot each →
Priced like this at McDonald's
The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the Hamburger’s $2.19. The spread is the middle 80% of restaurants, so a wide one means the same item costs noticeably different amounts depending where you buy it.
| Item | Median | Spread | Restaurants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hash Browns | $2.19 | 50% | 12,235 |
| Biscuit | $2.19 | 60% | 12,234 |
| McChicken® | $2.19 | 82% | 12,216 |
| Pumpkin & Creme Pie | $2.19 | 45% | 10,418 |
| Strawberry & Crème Pie | $2.19 | 50% | 5,167 |
Full nutrient panel
| Nutrient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Added Sugars | 5 g |
| Calcium | 15 mg |
| Cholesterol | 30 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Iron | 2.5 mg |
| Potassium | 190 mg |
| Protein | 12 g |
| Saturated Fat | 3.5 g |
| Sodium | 510 mg |
| Sugars | 5 g |
| Total Carbohydrate | 30 g |
| Total Fat | 9 g |
| Trans Fat | 0 g |
| Vitamin D | 0 mcg |
The nutrition label as McDonald's publishes it for this item, matched to the current menu, alongside the store-level price above.