The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria area advanced 0.4 percent for the two months ending in July 2025, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Alexandra Hall Bovee noted that the all items less food and energy index increased 0.2 percent. The energy index rose 3.0 percent and prices for food advanced 0.3 percent. (Data in this report are not seasonally adjusted. Accordingly, bi-monthly changes may reflect seasonal influences.)

The Washington-Arlington-Alexandria area all items CPI-U increased 2.0 percent for the 12 months ending in July. The index for all items less food and energy advanced 2.3 percent over the year. Food prices rose 1.4 percent while energy prices decreased 0.1 percent.

  

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Chart 1. Over-the-year percent change in CPI-U, Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV, July 2022–July 2025

Month	All items	All items less food and energy
Jul 2022	7.5	5.6
Sep 2022	6.5	5.6
Nov 2022	5.6	4.9
Jan 2023	4.4	3.6
Mar 2023	3.7	4.0
May 2023	3.1	3.9
Jul 2023	1.8	2.9
Sep 2023	3.3	3.6
Nov 2023	2.8	3.3
Jan 2024	3.6	4.6
Mar 2024	3.4	3.5
May 2024	3.3	3.5
Jul 2024	3.7	3.8
Sep 2024	2.6	3.1
Nov 2024	2.7	3.0
Jan 2025	2.7	2.8
Mar 2025	2.4	2.7
May 2025	1.9	2.1
Jul 2025	2.0	2.3

Food prices advanced 0.3 percent for the two months ending in July. Prices for food away from home increased 0.6 percent while prices for food at home reported no change for the same period. Within the food at home category, the food sub-indexes were a balance of decreases and increases.

Food prices rose 1.4 percent over the year, as prices for food away from home advanced 2.8 percent. The food at home index increased 0.3 percent, with prices for meats, poultry, fish, and eggs up 6.5 percent.

The energy index was up 3.0 percent over the two-month pricing period. The gasoline index increased 1.5 percent.

The energy index decreased 0.1 percent from July 2024 to July 2025. Over the same period, the gasoline index declined 10.8 percent.

The index for all items less food and energy advanced 0.2 percent during the two-month period. The indexes for household furnishings and operations and for shelter increased, up 0.7 and 0.8 percent respectively, over the bi-monthly period. Within shelter, the index for owners’ equivalent rent of residences rose 1.1 percent. In contrast, prices were lower for recreation (-2.2 percent) and apparel (-1.1 percent).

The index for all items less food and energy increased 2.3 percent over the year, largely due to a 3.8-percent advance in prices for shelter. Within the shelter index, rent of primary residence was up 3.2 percent and the owners’ equivalent rent of residences index rose 3.9 percent. Other index increases included medical care (+2.9 percent) and recreation (+3.0 percent).

The September 2025 Consumer Price Index for the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria area is scheduled to be released on Wednesday, October 15, 2025.

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of the average change in prices over time in a fixed market basket of goods and services. The Consumer Price Index for Washington is published bi-monthly. The set of components and sub-aggregates published for regional and metropolitan indexes is more limited than at the U.S. city average level; these indexes are byproducts of the national CPI program. Each local index has a much smaller sample size than the national or regional indexes and is, therefore, subject to substantially more sampling and other measurement error. As a result, local-area indexes are more volatile than the national or regional indexes. In addition, local indexes are not adjusted for seasonal influences. NOTE: Area indexes do not measure differences in the level of prices between cities; they only measure the average change in prices for each area since the base period.

Percent changes for all-items data previously found in Table A of this release can be accessed in Chart 1 for this release and its attendant data table. A full all-items data series history for the original index value and for 1-month, 2-month, 3-month, 6-month, and 12-month percent changes can be accessed via BLS data query tools. A direct link to the all-items series is provided in Table 1 of this release under historical data.

The Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV, Core Based Statistical Area includes the District of Columbia; the counties of Calvert, Charles, Frederick, Montgomery, and Prince George’s in Maryland; the cities of Alexandria, Fairfax, Falls Church, Fredericksburg, Manassas, and Manassas Park and the counties of Arlington, Clarke, Culpeper, Fairfax, Fauquier, Loudoun, Prince William, Rappahannock, Spotsylvania, Stafford, and Warren in Virginia; and the county of Jefferson in West Virginia.

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Table 1. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV, CPI-U by expenditure category for July 2025, not seasonally adjusted (1982-84=100 unless otherwise noted)

Expenditure category	Indexes				Percent change from:
	Historical data	May 2025	Jun. 2025	Jul. 2025	Jul. 2024	May 2025	Jun. 2025
All items		321.560	-	322.730	2.0	0.4	-
All items (1967=100)		949.334	-	952.790	-	-	-
Food and beverages		315.371	-	316.239	1.4	0.3	-
Food		324.837	-	325.774	1.4	0.3	-
Food at home		299.764	301.361	299.805	0.3	0.0	-0.5
Cereals and bakery products		409.416	429.186	423.058	-0.5	3.3	-1.4
Meats, poultry, fish, and eggs		335.221	337.423	335.446	6.5	0.1	-0.6
Dairy and related products		286.273	294.996	298.642	5.7	4.3	1.2
Fruits and vegetables		293.910	292.462	293.565	-2.0	-0.1	0.4
Nonalcoholic beverages and beverage materials(1)		269.570	271.718	263.441	0.9	-2.3	-3.0
Other food at home		251.075	246.090	245.383	-4.3	-2.3	-0.3
Food away from home		359.766	-	361.893	2.8	0.6	-
Alcoholic beverages		226.474	-	226.685	1.2	0.1	-
Housing		339.439	-	342.722	3.8	1.0	-
Shelter		406.088	406.923	409.349	3.8	0.8	0.6
Rent of primary residence		437.091	437.420	438.983	3.2	0.4	0.4
Owners' equiv. rent of residences(2)		417.485	418.082	421.934	3.9	1.1	0.9
Owners' equiv. rent of primary residence(2)		417.485	418.082	421.934	3.9	1.1	0.9
Household furnishings and operations		131.275	-	132.183	1.0	0.7	-
Apparel		155.946	-	154.266	-4.7	-1.1	-
Transportation		271.708	-	273.415	-1.1	0.6	-
Private transportation		284.747	-	286.993	-1.0	0.8	-
New and used motor vehicles(3)		128.132	-	128.444	1.1	0.2	-
New vehicles(1)		228.502	-	227.957	-0.1	-0.2	-
Used cars and trucks(1)		403.250	-	411.334	4.3	2.0	-
Motor fuel		294.545	296.931	299.064	-10.8	1.5	0.7
Gasoline (all types)		290.308	292.683	294.748	-10.8	1.5	0.7
Gasoline, unleaded regular(4)		281.914	284.302	286.387	-11.2	1.6	0.7
Gasoline, unleaded midgrade(4)(5)		306.595	309.077	310.258	-9.3	1.2	0.4
Gasoline, unleaded premium(4)		323.390	325.456	327.301	-8.5	1.2	0.6
Medical care		534.633	-	533.722	2.9	-0.2	-
Recreation(3)		143.030	-	139.948	3.0	-2.2	-
Education and communication(3)		170.567	-	170.624	0.2	0.0	-
Tuition, other school fees, and childcare(1)		1,740.550	-	1,747.189	2.9	0.4	-
Other goods and services		537.674	-	539.180	1.4	0.3	-
Footnotes (1) Indexes on a November 1977=100 base. (2) Indexes on a November 1982=100 base. (3) Indexes on a December 1997=100 base. (4) Special index based on a substantially smaller sample. (5) Indexes on a December 1993=100 base.
- Data not available. NOTE: Index applies to a month as a whole, not to any specific date.

Table 2. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV, CPI-U by special aggregate index for July 2025, not seasonally adjusted (1982-84=100 unless otherwise noted)

Special aggregate index	Indexes				Percent change from:
	Historical data	May 2025	Jun. 2025	Jul. 2025	Jul. 2024	May 2025	Jun. 2025
All items		321.560	-	322.730	2.0	0.4	-
Food		324.837	-	325.774	1.4	0.3	-
Energy		274.317	280.781	282.522	-0.1	3.0	0.6
All items less food and energy		331.722	-	332.513	2.3	0.2	-
All items less energy		329.584	-	330.393	2.2	0.2	-
All items less medical care		311.614	-	312.891	1.9	0.4	-
All items less shelter		286.497	-	286.873	0.9	0.1	-
Commodities		214.289	-	213.451	-1.5	-0.4	-
Commodities less food		168.342	-	166.961	-3.3	-0.8	-
Commodities less food & beverages		165.836	-	164.403	-3.5	-0.9	-
Durables		117.460	-	117.468	-1.6	0.0	-
Nondurables		265.335	-	263.876	-1.5	-0.5	-
Nondurables less food & beverages		217.857	-	214.170	-5.4	-1.7	-
Nondurables less food		218.160	-	214.801	-4.7	-1.5	-
Services		418.556	-	421.785	3.9	0.8	-
Services less rent of shelter(1)		446.685	-	449.926	4.3	0.7	-
Services less medical care services		406.487	-	409.800	3.9	0.8	-
Footnotes (1) Indexes on a November 1982=100 base.
- Data not available. NOTE: Index applies to a month as a whole, not to any specific date.