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Bureau of Labor Statistics > Geographic Information > Mid-Atlantic > CPI Summary

Mid-Atlantic Consumer Price Index Card

Monthly and Bimonthly Indexes

Consumer Price Indexes for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. city averages and selected areas, not seasonally adjusted
(1982-84=100 unless otherwise noted)
Item U.S. city average Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington Washington-Arlington-Alexandria(1) Baltimore-Columbia-Towson(1) Northeast region South region
Dec
2024		 Percent change from
Dec
2023		 Dec
2024		 Percent change from
Dec
2023		 Dec
2024		 Percent change from
Dec
2023		 Dec
2024		 Percent change from
Dec
2023		 Dec
2024		 Percent change from
Dec
2023		 Dec
2024		 Percent change from
Dec
2023

All items

 315.605 2.9 316.543 3.3     316.753 3.4 327.240 3.5 307.007 2.8

All items (1967 = 100)(2)

 945.413   914.477       947.383   515.303   498.008  

Food and beverages

 330.812 2.4 306.734 3.2     338.691 2.8 332.474 2.2 325.992 2.4

Food

 333.566 2.5 309.783 3.3     339.221 2.9 335.063 2.3 330.073 2.5

Food at home

 308.380 1.8 312.761 2.3 297.984 2.0 299.153 2.2 310.743 1.5 306.954 1.9

Cereals and bakery products

 356.574 0.8 423.192 3.4 415.522 9.4 366.460 3.2 385.432 0.7 365.374 1.1

Meats, poultry, fish, and eggs

 333.659 4.2 351.056 6.0 318.836 3.4 317.336 7.4 320.237 4.0 329.596 4.8

Dairy and related products

 271.358 1.3 246.621 4.5 291.190 0.3 276.667 -2.2 279.658 0.1 272.589 1.9

Fruits and vegetables

 353.630 1.0 298.251 -3.4 302.537 0.2 317.570 -3.0 354.808 -0.8 334.692 0.7

Nonalcoholic beverages and beverage materials(3)

 220.762 2.3 229.835 4.6 263.535 1.4 231.514 4.3 226.638 4.3 217.754 1.7

Other food at home

 272.362 0.8 293.734 0.8 248.470 -0.2 274.787 1.3 279.461 0.9 273.108 0.6

Food away from home

 374.644 3.6 297.154 4.9     394.874 3.8 378.562 3.5 369.237 3.4

Alcoholic beverages

 291.832 1.4 260.797 2.0     327.684 1.3 296.882 0.6 269.247 1.4

Housing

 338.883 4.1 340.331 4.3     320.891 3.4 360.210 5.2 317.522 3.9

Shelter

 407.242 4.6 423.488 4.8 399.621 3.9 377.815 3.7 444.459 5.3 373.130 4.7

Rent of primary residence

 428.151 4.3 401.166 5.5 429.409 3.7 441.779 4.4 449.357 5.7 397.871 3.8

Owners' equivalent rent of residences(4)

 420.077 4.8 437.266 4.8 412.167 3.8 398.624 3.6 463.344 5.9 376.766 4.8

Owners' equivalent rent of primary residence(4)

 420.093 4.8 437.266 4.8 412.167 3.8 398.624 3.6 462.883 5.9 376.712 4.8

Fuels and utilities

 317.180 3.4 279.508 6.6     319.890 2.8 310.797 7.1 303.759 2.3

Household energy

 264.502 2.8 228.676 6.6 226.503 3.2 283.714 2.8 277.860 7.5 245.621 1.3

Energy services

 269.388 3.3 240.418 8.3 232.303 3.9 305.504 3.1 277.749 10.2 245.786 1.4

Electricity

 276.700 2.8 243.890 9.2 263.142 4.5 285.395 1.8 283.513 9.0 240.320 0.8

Utility (piped) gas service

 242.224 4.9 213.961 5.8 155.088 1.9 265.860 20.1 247.097 12.9 261.965 5.4

Household furnishings and operations

 147.559 0.7 141.253 -2.2     136.304 1.0 145.767 2.5 146.094 -0.9

Apparel

 127.354 1.2 110.617 6.9     114.563 -2.5 128.493 1.0 137.510 0.7

Transportation

 267.606 1.6 275.180 2.6     280.980 4.7 262.634 2.0 267.912 1.1

Private transportation

 266.883 1.3 285.911 2.2     287.706 4.7 261.579 1.9 269.273 0.6

New and used motor vehicles(5)

 124.324 -1.3 133.382 -0.9     135.088 -0.9 124.960 0.4 125.347 -2.1

New vehicles(3)

 177.552 -0.4 238.195 -0.1     276.392 -0.2 174.458 -0.1 184.718 -0.8

Used cars and trucks(3)

 180.317 -3.3 342.105 -2.1     320.234 -2.1 192.995 -2.7 179.453 -3.7

Motor fuel

 271.629 -3.8 278.366 -9.6 286.563 -5.2 256.490 -8.1 264.669 -7.3 250.291 -2.2

Gasoline

 270.667 -3.4 274.844 -9.6 282.446 -5.2 250.594 -7.9 264.156 -7.2 249.110 -1.9

Motor vehicle insurance(3)

 868.417 11.3                    

Medical care

 569.189 2.8 596.289 0.9     511.383 3.1 573.478 3.9 538.866 3.0

Recreation(5)

 138.343 1.1 137.140 -0.5     153.083 5.4 142.170 0.7 139.410 1.9

Education and communication(5)

 145.696 0.6 141.115 3.4     161.240 -0.4 157.890 2.1 140.499 0.3

Tuition, other school fees, and child care(3)

 879.172 3.8 1,194.464 3.1     1,432.433 4.7 1,472.117 4.4 1,558.500 4.7

Other goods and services

 564.600 3.3 693.098 0.9     562.915 8.1 608.820 1.6 539.419 4.1

Energy

 267.963 -0.5 249.551 -0.3 260.235 -0.8 280.069 -2.6 272.876 0.9 242.627 -0.5

Footnotes
(1) 1998-2017 indexes based on a substantially smaller sample.
(2) For the Northeast and the South, Dec. 1977=100.
(3) For Washington, Nov. 1977=100. For Baltimore, March 1978=100. For Philadelphia, December 1977=100.
(4) For the U.S., Philadelphia, Northeast, & South, Dec. 1982 = 100. For Washington & Baltimore, Nov. 1982=100.
(5) December 1997=100.

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD, CBSA includes Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia Counties in Pennsylvania; Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, and Salem Counties in New Jersey; New Castle County in Delaware; and Cecil County in Maryland.

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV, CBSA includes the District of Columbia; Calvert, Charles, Frederick, Montgomery, Prince George's in Maryland; Arlington, Clarke, Culpeper, Fairfax, Fauquier, Loudoun, Prince William, Rappahannock, Spotsylvania, Stafford, and Warren Counties, and Alexandria, Fairfax, Falls Church, Fredericksburg, Manassas, and Manassas Park Cities in Virginia; and Jefferson County in West Virginia.

Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD, CBSA includes Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Carroll, Harford, Howard, Queen Anne's Counties in Maryland.

Northeast region includes the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

South region includes the District of Columbia and the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.

 

Consumer Price Indexes for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W), U.S. city averages and selected areas, not seasonally adjusted
(1982-84=100 unless otherwise noted)
Item U.S. city average Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington Washington-Arlington-Alexandria(1) Baltimore-Columbia-Towson(1) Northeast region South region
Dec
2024		 Percent change from
Dec
2023		 Dec
2024		 Percent change from
Dec
2023		 Dec
2024		 Percent change from
Dec
2023		 Dec
2024		 Percent change from
Dec
2023		 Dec
2024		 Percent change from
Dec
2023		 Dec
2024		 Percent change from
Dec
2023

All items

 309.067 2.8 317.558 3.3     309.897 2.9 324.892 3.5 301.205 2.5

All items (1967 = 100)(2)

 920.618   922.399       923.811   507.463   487.835  

Food and beverages

 330.446 2.4 313.293 2.5     334.735 2.5 331.012 2.2 325.246 2.4

Food

 332.203 2.5 315.063 2.5     334.736 2.5 333.017 2.3 328.085 2.4

Food at home

 308.197 1.8 322.643 2.1 293.862 1.9 300.740 1.8 310.674 1.7 305.026 1.9

Cereals and bakery products

 358.512 0.7 433.591 3.1 391.088 9.2 351.139 2.3 383.707 0.4 363.999 0.8

Meats, poultry, fish, and eggs

 334.669 4.2 355.340 4.8 310.981 2.6 332.786 7.6 319.981 4.2 328.329 5.0

Dairy and related products

 269.753 1.6 248.173 4.5 282.629 -0.7 256.935 -2.4 280.004 0.7 268.658 2.3

Fruits and vegetables

 349.894 0.9 285.925 -3.3 310.362 0.6 327.192 -2.9 356.100 -0.5 331.505 0.5

Nonalcoholic beverages and beverage materials(3)

 220.725 2.2 245.061 4.5 275.478 1.2 240.126 7.1 226.435 4.0 216.588 1.8

Other food at home

 272.017 0.8 301.950 0.7 244.189 -0.5 257.312 1.6 281.331 1.0 271.663 0.6

Food away from home

 375.552 3.6 296.730 3.7     391.746 3.5 379.082 3.3 368.380 3.3

Alcoholic beverages

 298.683 1.3 273.910 1.1     334.829 1.6 295.440 0.1 277.583 0.8

Housing

 334.990 4.0 340.760 4.1     332.073 3.5 360.277 5.3 318.627 3.8

Shelter

 399.403 4.5 432.887 5.0 397.119 3.8 392.622 3.7 440.896 5.5 375.476 4.5

Rent of primary residence

 426.034 4.3 401.166 5.5 429.409 3.7 441.779 4.4 443.345 5.7 395.566 3.8

Owners' equivalent rent of residences(4)

 379.021 4.8 388.869 4.8 375.649 3.8 361.590 3.6 407.777 6.0 350.222 4.7

Owners' equivalent rent of primary residence(4)

 379.013 4.8 388.869 4.8 375.649 3.8 361.590 3.6 407.835 6.0 350.157 4.7

Fuels and utilities

 314.477 3.4 275.959 7.0     311.543 3.3 312.130 7.6 304.418 2.3

Household energy

 261.766 2.7 227.714 6.9 231.500 3.9 273.125 3.4 278.989 7.9 243.781 1.1

Energy services

 266.984 3.0 240.906 7.9 238.913 3.9 303.209 3.5 277.893 10.1 245.387 1.1

Electricity

 272.872 2.6 243.889 9.2 263.142 4.5 285.393 1.8 285.318 9.2 236.815 0.6

Utility (piped) gas service

 238.893 4.5 213.957 5.8 155.089 1.9 265.860 20.1 245.359 12.5 272.454 5.4

Household furnishings and operations

 140.105 0.0 134.552 -3.3     124.250 1.2 139.930 1.0 136.188 -1.2

Apparel

 127.279 1.3 122.672 6.6     119.185 -1.4 129.788 1.2 136.955 1.2

Transportation

 271.240 1.5 294.149 3.5     264.070 3.1 269.412 2.5 265.461 0.7

Private transportation

 270.314 1.4 300.041 2.8     268.305 3.0 266.838 2.5 265.815 0.4

New and used motor vehicles(5)

 123.570 -1.6 135.173 -1.4     130.390 -1.1 123.404 0.2 121.386 -2.4

New vehicles(3)

 177.497 -0.4 247.859 -0.1     269.572 -0.2 171.927 0.0 181.965 -0.8

Used cars and trucks(3)

 181.324 -3.4 342.090 -2.1     320.251 -2.1 192.751 -2.8 180.642 -3.8

Motor fuel

 272.408 -3.6 279.143 -9.6 283.737 -5.2 259.943 -8.0 264.189 -7.3 248.806 -2.1

Gasoline

 271.507 -3.4 274.844 -9.6 282.447 -5.2 250.606 -7.9 263.873 -7.2 248.009 -1.8

Motor vehicle insurance(3)

 877.507 11.1                    

Medical care

 577.719 3.1 588.501 1.2     512.691 3.0 565.136 4.3 554.990 3.2

Recreation(5)

 130.245 0.6 134.706 -0.5     128.581 2.4 142.353 -0.3 130.083 0.7

Education and communication(5)

 130.038 0.2 126.493 2.9     142.496 -2.0 140.802 1.6 122.040 0.1

Tuition, other school fees, and child care(3)

 843.336 4.1 1,140.136 2.8     1,387.346 4.4 1,457.691 3.9 1,427.354 5.7

Other goods and services

 624.259 3.6 739.617 3.0     742.047 7.4 707.500 1.5 589.822 4.4

Energy

 265.478 -0.8 244.493 -1.2 262.415 -1.9 266.014 -3.3 271.596 0.7 239.900 -0.6

Footnotes
(1) 1998-2017 indexes based on a substantially smaller sample.
(2) For the Northeast and the South, Dec. 1977=100.
(3) For Washington, Nov. 1977=100. For Baltimore, March 1978=100. For Philadelphia, December 1977=100.
(4) For the U.S., Philadelphia, Northeast, & South, Dec. 1982 = 100. For Washington & Baltimore, Nov. 1984=100.
(5) December 1997=100.

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD, CBSA includes Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia Counties in Pennsylvania; Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, and Salem Counties in New Jersey; New Castle County in Delaware; and Cecil County in Maryland.

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV, CBSA includes the District of Columbia; Calvert, Charles, Frederick, Montgomery, Prince George's in Maryland; Arlington, Clarke, Culpeper, Fairfax, Fauquier, Loudoun, Prince William, Rappahannock, Spotsylvania, Stafford, and Warren Counties, and Alexandria, Fairfax, Falls Church, Fredericksburg, Manassas, and Manassas Park Cities in Virginia; and Jefferson County in West Virginia.

Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD, CBSA includes Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Carroll, Harford, Howard, Queen Anne's Counties in Maryland.

Northeast region includes the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

South region includes the District of Columbia and the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.

 

Consumer Price Indexes and percent changes for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), all items, U.S. city averages and selected areas, not seasonally adjusted
(1982-84=100 unless otherwise noted)
Area Index Percent change to
Dec 2024 from --
Nov
2024		 Dec
2024		 Dec
2023		 Oct
2024		 Nov
2024

U.S. city average

 315.493 315.605 2.9 0.0 0.0

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI

 294.542 294.757 3.9 -0.2 0.1

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA

 333.718 334.531 3.4 0.1 0.2

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA

 338.535 338.610 4.3 0.1 0.0

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH

 338.512        

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX

 299.096        

Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO

 330.160        

Minneapolis-St.Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI

 300.531        

Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA(1)

 132.853        

San Diego-Carlsbad, CA

 375.860        

Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL(2)

 299.638        

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV(3)

 316.745        

Urban Hawaii

 343.189        

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA

   314.086 2.6 0.6  

Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD(3)

   316.753 3.4 -0.4  

Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI

   291.791 2.8 -0.5  

Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX

   272.952 1.0 -1.1  

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL

   350.098 2.8 -0.1  

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD

   316.543 3.3 0.0  

Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ(4)

   182.653 1.6 -0.8  

San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA

   348.001 2.4 -0.4  

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA

   354.348 2.7 -0.5  

St. Louis, MO-IL

   285.607 3.1 0.3  

Urban Alaska

   267.312 2.3 -0.8  

Footnotes
(1) December 2017=100.
(2) 1987=100.
(3) 1998-2017 indexes based on a substantially smaller sample.
(4) December 2001=100.

 

Consumer Price Indexes and percent changes for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W), all items, U.S. city averages and selected areas, not seasonally adjusted
(1982-84=100 unless otherwise noted)
Area Index Percent change to
Dec 2024 from --
Nov
2024		 Dec
2024		 Dec
2023		 Oct
2024		 Nov
2024

U.S. city average

 308.998 309.067 2.8 -0.1 0.0

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI

 285.856 286.007 4.0 -0.3 0.1

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA

 321.205 321.996 3.4 0.2 0.2

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA

 332.629 332.829 4.1 0.2 0.1

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH

 339.635        

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX

 308.190        

Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO

 322.284        

Minneapolis-St.Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI

 297.080        

Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA(1)

 133.485        

San Diego-Carlsbad, CA

 356.379        

Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL(2)

 295.726        

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV(3)

 311.384        

Urban Hawaii

 342.551        

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA

   306.149 2.3 0.5  

Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD(3)

   309.897 2.9 -0.4  

Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI

   286.548 2.9 -0.5  

Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX

   268.856 1.2 -1.2  

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL

   344.872 2.9 0.1  

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD

   317.558 3.3 -0.1  

Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ(4)

   181.865 1.3 -0.7  

San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA

   342.582 2.1 -0.8  

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA

   348.575 2.9 -0.2  

St. Louis, MO-IL

   283.541 3.1 0.1  

Urban Alaska

   263.740 2.0 -0.6  

Footnotes
(1) December 2017=100.
(2) 1987=100.
(3) 1998-2017 indexes based on a substantially smaller sample.
(4) December 2001=100.