Table 3. Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U): U. S. city average, special aggregate indexes

Table 3. Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U): U.S. city average, special aggregate indexes, September 2025 [1982-84=100, unless otherwise noted]
Special aggregate indexes	Relative importance Aug. 2025	Unadjusted indexes			Unadjusted percent change		Seasonally adjusted percent change
Special aggregate indexes	Relative importance Aug. 2025	Sep. 2024	Aug. 2025	Sep. 2025	Sep. 2024- Sep. 2025	Aug. 2025- Sep. 2025	Jun. 2025- Jul. 2025	Jul. 2025- Aug. 2025	Aug. 2025- Sep. 2025

All items less food	86.354	312.692	321.287	322.068	3.0	0.2	0.2	0.4	0.3
All items less shelter	64.529	284.044	290.784	291.663	2.7	0.3	0.2	0.4	0.4
All items less food and shelter	50.883	272.293	278.458	279.283	2.6	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.4
All items less food, shelter, and energy	44.483	275.128	281.241	282.146	2.6	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.2
All items less food, shelter, energy, and used cars and trucks	42.043	280.655	286.324	287.460	2.4	0.4	0.4	0.2	0.3
All items less medical care	91.732	303.175	311.423	312.239	3.0	0.3	0.2	0.4	0.3
All items less energy	93.600	321.850	330.737	331.609	3.0	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.2
Commodities	36.130	223.014	226.364	227.312	1.9	0.4	0.0	0.5	0.5
Commodities less food, energy, and used cars and trucks	16.878	164.171	165.051	166.000	1.1	0.6	0.2	0.2	0.3
Commodities less food	22.484	177.549	178.830	179.680	1.2	0.5	-0.1	0.5	0.7
Commodities less food and beverages	21.656	173.715	174.891	175.741	1.2	0.5	-0.1	0.5	0.7
Services	63.870	406.433	420.424	421.102	3.6	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.2
Services less rent of shelter(1)	28.821	419.050	433.800	434.536	3.7	0.2	0.3	0.1	0.2
Services less medical care services	57.105	390.387	403.730	404.354	3.6	0.2	0.2	0.4	0.1
Durables	10.939	122.204	124.570	124.402	1.8	-0.1	0.4	0.4	0.3
Nondurables	25.191	277.420	281.139	282.993	2.0	0.7	-0.2	0.6	1.0
Nondurables less food	11.545	231.993	231.424	233.863	0.8	1.1	-0.5	0.5	1.8
Nondurables less food and beverages	10.718	228.334	227.428	229.975	0.7	1.1	-0.6	0.4	2.0
Nondurables less food, beverages, and apparel	8.214	290.865	291.660	293.608	0.9	0.7	-0.7	0.3	2.7
Nondurables less food and apparel	9.042	289.403	290.581	292.398	1.0	0.6	-0.6	0.3	2.5
Housing	44.380	336.776	349.277	349.773	3.9	0.1	0.2	0.4	0.2
Education and communication(2)	5.639	146.928	147.152	147.501	0.4	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
Education(2)	2.566	304.883	311.752	314.267	3.1	0.8	0.4	0.2	0.2
Communication(2)	3.073	74.092	72.991	72.818	-1.7	-0.2	-0.3	-0.1	-0.2
Information and information processing(2)	3.020	69.701	68.577	68.411	-1.9	-0.2	-0.4	-0.1	-0.2
Information technology, hardware and services(3)	1.625	6.929	6.821	6.792	-2.0	-0.4	-0.6	0.6	-0.4
Recreation(2)	5.269	137.651	141.394	141.827	3.0	0.3	0.4	-0.1	0.4
Video and audio(2)	1.057	117.725	119.661	119.853	1.8	0.2	0.0	-0.3	0.2
Pets, pet products and services(2)	1.159	222.980	229.313	230.823	3.5	0.7	0.4	0.0	0.8
Photography(2)	0.074	85.829	85.366	85.497	-0.4	0.2	1.0	-0.3	0.2
Food and beverages	14.474	329.417	338.366	339.443	3.0	0.3	0.0	0.5	0.2
Domestically produced farm food	6.730	318.919	324.773	326.212	2.3	0.4	0.2	0.4	0.4
Other services	10.003	417.567	427.731	429.001	2.7	0.3	0.3	0.0	0.2
Apparel less footwear	1.928	127.725	123.770	127.251	-0.4	2.8	-0.3	0.8	0.7
Fuels and utilities	4.457	316.243	336.541	334.686	5.8	-0.6	-0.1	-0.1	-0.5
Household energy	3.367	264.362	282.839	280.642	6.2	-0.8	-0.2	-0.3	-0.7
Medical care	8.268	566.266	583.875	584.858	3.3	0.2	0.7	-0.2	0.2
Transportation	16.523	269.604	273.910	274.301	1.7	0.1	0.0	0.9	0.8
Private transportation	15.144	269.771	274.710	274.710	1.8	0.0	-0.2	0.7	0.8
New and used motor vehicles(2)	7.401	124.187	126.820	126.275	1.7	-0.4	0.1	0.4	0.0
Utilities and public transportation	7.747	259.374	267.873	267.839	3.3	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.0
Household furnishings and operations	4.452	147.906	153.039	154.023	4.1	0.6	0.4	0.2	0.4
Other goods and services	2.944	562.638	583.313	585.873	4.1	0.4	0.4	0.2	0.5
Personal care	2.453	283.738	292.584	293.775	3.5	0.4	0.4	0.1	0.4
Footnotes (1) Indexes on a December 1982=100 base. (2) Indexes on a December 1997=100 base. (3) Indexes on a December 1988=100 base.

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