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25-1172-PHI
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

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Consumer Price Index, Northeast region — June 2025

Regional prices were up 0.5 percent in June, up 3.0 percent over the year

The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) in the Northeast region increased 0.5 percent in June, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The index for all items less food and energy also rose 0.3 percent in June. Energy prices increased 3.0 percent over-the-month while food prices rose 0.1 percent in the same period. (Data in this report are not seasonally adjusted. Accordingly, month-to-month changes may reflect the impact of seasonal influences.)

The Northeast all items CPI-U advanced 3.0 percent for the 12 months ending in June. The index for all items less food and energy advanced 3.2 percent over the year. Food prices rose 2.5 percent and energy prices increased 2.4 percent over the year.

Food

Food prices increased 0.1 percent in June. The index for food away from home was up 0.2 percent for the same period. The index for food at home was up 0.1 percent. Within the food at home category, increases in 4 of the 6 categories offset a 1.1 percent decrease for cereals and bakery products. Prices for meats, poultry, fish, and eggs, rose 0.6 percent. Food groups that had price increases over the month included other fresh vegetables, uncooked beef steaks and coffee.

Food prices rose 2.5 percent over the year. The index for food away from home advanced 3.5 percent, while the index for food at home increased 1.9 percent. Much of the rise in the food at home index came from a 5.3-percent advance in prices for meats, poultry, fish, and eggs.

Energy

The energy index rose 3.0 percent over the month. The electricity index increased 6.5 percent as gasoline prices increased 1.1 percent, and utility (piped) gas service prices increased 0.3 percent in the same period.

The energy index increased 2.4 percent from June 2024 to June 2025. The utility (piped) gas service index advanced 23.0 percent, and the electricity index rose 12.5 percent. Gasoline declined 10.7 percent over the year.

All items less food and energy

The index for all items less food and energy increased 0.3 percent in June. The index for shelter was up 0.3 percent as owners’ equivalent rent of residences increased 0.4 percent. For the same period, recreation prices increased 0.9 percent, household furnishings and operations increased 0.8 percent and new and used motor vehicle prices increased 0.3 percent.

The index for all items less food and energy advanced 3.2 percent over the year, led by a 4.4-percent increase in prices for shelter. Within the shelter category, the owners’ equivalent rent of residences index rose 4.6 percent. Other price increases for all items less food and energy encompassed the education and communication index and household furnishings and operations index, both up 2.6 percent, and new and used motor vehicles index, up 2.1 percent.

The Consumer Price Index for July 2025 is scheduled to be released on Tuesday, August 12, 2025, at 8:30 a.m. (ET).

Publication updates and changes

In accordance with annual practice, relative importance weights have been updated and are available online in the CPI Supplemental Table of Contents.

Effective with the January 2025 data release, several indexes and average price series were discontinued. More information is available on the CPI discontinued series page. Direct any inquiries to the CPI office using one of the CPI contact information options listed online.


Technical Note

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 the Northeast region is published 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.

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 Northeast region is comprised of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

Refer to the national CPI news release technical note or the Handbook of Methods for more information.

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Table 1. Northeast region CPI-U by expenditure category for June 2025, not seasonally adjusted (1982-84=100 unless otherwise noted)
Expenditure category

Indexes Percent change from:
Historical
data
Apr.
2025
May
2025
Jun.
2025
Jun.
2024
Apr.
2025
May
2025

All items

333.065 333.531 335.078 3.0 0.6 0.5

All items (December 1977 = 100)

524.475 525.209 527.645 - - -

Food and beverages

335.870 336.636 337.191 2.5 0.4 0.2

Food

338.507 339.378 339.866 2.5 0.4 0.1

Food at home

312.927 313.569 313.831 1.9 0.3 0.1

Cereals and bakery products

386.588 395.788 391.523 1.2 1.3 -1.1

Meats, poultry, fish, and eggs

331.727 328.483 330.363 5.3 -0.4 0.6

Dairy and related products

279.432 278.527 279.791 1.3 0.1 0.5

Fruits and vegetables

345.139 342.438 343.150 -1.4 -0.6 0.2

Nonalcoholic beverages and beverage materials

234.367 232.919 235.335 6.4 0.4 1.0

Other food at home

280.012 282.903 282.307 0.1 0.8 -0.2

Food away from home

384.341 385.637 386.542 3.5 0.6 0.2

Alcoholic beverages

299.600 298.918 300.397 1.8 0.3 0.5

Housing

367.625 368.717 371.126 4.9 1.0 0.7

Shelter

364.335 365.681 367.531 4.4 0.9 0.5

Rent of primary residence

455.951 457.466 458.933 5.3 0.7 0.3

Owners' equivalent rent of residences(1)

469.557 470.531 472.552 4.6 0.6 0.4

Owners' equivalent rent of primary residence(1)

469.082 470.054 472.073 4.6 0.6 0.4

Fuels and utilities

322.576 323.102 334.550 12.0 3.7 3.5

Household energy

288.570 288.885 301.114 12.9 4.3 4.2

Energy services

291.487 292.363 305.661 15.4 4.9 4.5

Electricity

295.536 298.492 317.780 12.5 7.5 6.5

Utility (piped) gas service

263.189 259.977 260.753 23.0 -0.9 0.3

Household furnishings and operations

148.388 148.666 149.799 2.6 1.0 0.8

Apparel

135.322 134.024 134.594 0.4 -0.5 0.4

Transportation

265.726 266.841 267.717 0.2 0.7 0.3

Private transportation

265.640 266.604 267.735 0.6 0.8 0.4

New and used motor vehicles(2)

126.576 126.770 127.198 2.1 0.5 0.3

New vehicles

175.704 175.677 175.404 0.2 -0.2 -0.2

New cars(3)

165.809 165.635 165.630 0.4 -0.1 0.0

Used cars and trucks

195.267 196.898 199.735 3.1 2.3 1.4

Motor fuel

267.294 267.020 269.919 -10.7 1.0 1.1

Gasoline (all types)

266.658 266.438 269.424 -10.7 1.0 1.1

Gasoline, unleaded regular(3)

260.540 260.301 263.384 -11.2 1.1 1.2

Gasoline, unleaded midgrade(3)(4)

298.014 298.030 300.609 -9.1 0.9 0.9

Gasoline, unleaded premium(3)

297.357 297.235 299.632 -8.4 0.8 0.8

Medical care

584.462 583.519 585.244 1.1 0.1 0.3

Medical care commodities

427.706 427.550 426.540 0.4 -0.3 -0.2

Medical care services

630.315 629.126 631.721 1.3 0.2 0.4

Professional services

435.083 433.181 434.480 2.1 -0.1 0.3

Recreation(2)

145.842 143.744 145.034 0.9 -0.6 0.9

Education and communication(2)

158.726 159.113 159.173 2.6 0.3 0.0

Tuition, other school fees, and childcare(5)

1,479.471 1,488.802 1,492.288 5.5 0.9 0.2

Other goods and services

626.057 626.052 628.691 3.5 0.4 0.4

Footnotes
(1) Indexes on a December 1982=100 base.
(2) Indexes on a December 1997=100 base.
(3) Special index based on a substantially smaller sample.
(4) Indexes on a December 1993=100 base.
(5) Indexes on a December 1977=100 base.

- Data not available.
Note: Index applies to a month as a whole, not to any specific date.

Table 2. Northeast region CPI-U by special aggregate index for June 2025, not seasonally adjusted (1982-84=100 unless otherwise noted)
Special aggregate index

Indexes Percent change from:
Historical
data
Apr.
2025
May
2025
Jun.
2025
Jun.
2024
Apr.
2025
May
2025

All items

333.065 333.531 335.078 3.0 0.6 0.5

Food

338.507 339.378 339.866 2.5 0.4 0.1

Energy

280.382 280.463 288.994 2.4 3.1 3.0

All items less food and energy

344.751 345.194 346.326 3.2 0.5 0.3

All items less energy

341.980 342.483 343.515 3.1 0.4 0.3

All items less medical care

322.047 322.579 324.120 3.2 0.6 0.5

All items less shelter

291.017 291.115 292.755 2.2 0.6 0.6

Commodities

229.295 229.413 230.311 0.4 0.4 0.4

Commodities less food

179.402 179.254 180.246 -1.1 0.5 0.6

Commodities less food & beverages

174.927 174.793 175.765 -1.2 0.5 0.6

Durables

120.534 120.865 121.297 0.4 0.6 0.4

Nondurables

279.163 279.046 280.177 0.4 0.4 0.4

Nondurables less food & beverages

224.012 223.018 224.725 -2.4 0.3 0.8

Nondurables less food

228.472 227.498 229.190 -2.1 0.3 0.7

Services

432.678 433.483 435.658 4.4 0.7 0.5

Services less rent of shelter(1)

424.059 424.135 427.343 4.4 0.8 0.8

Services less medical care services

419.077 420.025 422.172 4.7 0.7 0.5

Footnotes
(1) Indexes on a December 1982=100 base.

- Data not available.
NOTE: Index applies to a month as a whole, not to any specific date.

 

Last Modified Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2025