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Wednesday, February 12, 2025
The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) for the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington area advanced 1.5 percent for the two months ending in January 2025, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See chart 1.) Regional Commissioner Jason Palmer noted that the energy index increased 6.3 percent, and the food index rose 0.8 percent from November to January. The all items less food and energy index advanced 1.3 percent over the past two months. Within the all items less food and energy category, indexes for recreation and apparel increased and the indexes for other goods and services and shelter decreased. (See table 1 and table 2.) (Data in this report are not seasonally adjusted. Accordingly, bi-monthly changes may reflect seasonal influences.)
The Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington area all items CPI-U advanced 3.0 percent for the 12 months ending in January. The index for all items less food and energy increased 2.9 percent over the year. Energy prices increased 6.4 percent. Food prices rose 2.5 percent.
Food prices advanced 0.8 percent for the two months ending in January. Prices for food at home (grocery store purchases) and prices for food away from home (restaurant, cafeteria, and vending purchases) both rose 0.8 percent for the same period.
Food prices rose 2.5 percent over the year. Prices for food at home increased 1.3 percent as all six major grocery store food group indexes rose over the year. Increasing indexes included meats, poultry, fish, and eggs (+2.6 percent); other food at home (includes sugar, sweets, fats, and oils, for example) (+1.0 percent); and nonalcoholic beverages and beverage materials (+2.8 percent). Prices for food away from home increased 4.2 percent.
EnergyThe energy index increased 6.3 percent for the two months ending in January. Gasoline prices rose 1.7 percent.
Energy prices increased 6.4 percent over the year. The gasoline index was up 6.3 percent compared to a year ago.
All items less food and energyThe index for all items less food and energy rose 1.3 percent during the two-month period. Among the index’s components, prices were higher for recreation (+5.8 percent) and apparel (+8.6 percent). In contrast, prices were lower for other goods and services (-2.2 percent) and shelter (-0.1 percent).
The index for all items less food and energy increased 2.9 percent over the year. The indexes for shelter (+3.4 percent) and recreation (+3.0 percent) were higher over the year.
The March 2025 Consumer Price Index for the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington area is scheduled to be released on Thursday, April 10, 2025.
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.
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 Minneapolis 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 Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI Core Based Statistical Area includes Anoka, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Hennepin, Isanti, Le Sueur, Mille Lacs, Ramsey, Scott, Sherburne, Sibley, Washington, and Wright Counties in Minnesota and Pierce and St. Croix Counties in Wisconsin.
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Expenditure category | Indexes | Percent change from: | |||||
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Historical data | Nov. 2024 | Dec. 2024 | Jan. 2025 | Jan. 2024 | Nov. 2024 | Dec. 2024 | |
All items | 300.531 | - | 305.019 | 3.0 | 1.5 | - | |
All items (1967=100) | 944.428 | - | 958.532 | - | - | - | |
Food and beverages | 365.331 | - | 367.808 | 2.3 | 0.7 | - | |
Food | 354.295 | - | 357.007 | 2.5 | 0.8 | - | |
Food at home | 312.065 | 311.987 | 314.406 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 0.8 | |
Cereals and bakery products | 345.435 | 347.605 | 337.137 | 1.1 | -2.4 | -3.0 | |
Meats, poultry, fish, and eggs | 350.603 | 346.730 | 349.117 | 2.6 | -0.4 | 0.7 | |
Dairy and related products | 308.324 | 323.987 | 319.310 | 1.4 | 3.6 | -1.4 | |
Fruits and vegetables | 389.534 | 397.169 | 395.468 | 0.3 | 1.5 | -0.4 | |
Nonalcoholic beverages and beverage materials(1) | 200.658 | 192.294 | 202.238 | 2.8 | 0.8 | 5.2 | |
Other food at home | 260.603 | 259.585 | 265.233 | 1.0 | 1.8 | 2.2 | |
Food away from home | 418.158 | - | 421.447 | 4.2 | 0.8 | - | |
Alcoholic beverages | 446.696 | - | 445.543 | 1.1 | -0.3 | - | |
Housing | 291.282 | - | 294.146 | 3.6 | 1.0 | - | |
Shelter | 345.517 | 346.123 | 345.006 | 3.4 | -0.1 | -0.3 | |
Rent of primary residence | 353.931 | 355.224 | 355.512 | 3.8 | 0.4 | 0.1 | |
Owners' equiv. rent of residences(2) | 367.423 | 368.663 | 369.269 | 3.5 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
Owners' equiv. rent of primary residence(2) | 367.423 | 368.663 | 369.269 | 3.5 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
Household furnishings and operations | 140.415 | - | 145.163 | 3.1 | 3.4 | - | |
Apparel | 146.047 | - | 158.538 | 2.5 | 8.6 | - | |
Transportation | 246.821 | - | 251.213 | 3.6 | 1.8 | - | |
Private transportation | 235.775 | - | 237.519 | 3.8 | 0.7 | - | |
New and used motor vehicles(3) | 109.831 | - | 110.275 | 0.2 | 0.4 | - | |
New vehicles(1) | 193.294 | - | 193.608 | -0.5 | 0.2 | - | |
Used cars and trucks(1) | 355.059 | - | 357.983 | 0.8 | 0.8 | - | |
Motor fuel | 244.938 | 240.699 | 248.961 | 6.1 | 1.6 | 3.4 | |
Gasoline (all types) | 245.120 | 240.876 | 249.348 | 6.3 | 1.7 | 3.5 | |
Unleaded regular(4) | 243.990 | 239.684 | 248.468 | 6.2 | 1.8 | 3.7 | |
252.891 | 249.142 | 255.362 | 6.4 | 1.0 | 2.5 | ||
Unleaded premium(4) | 323.799 | 319.111 | 326.380 | 7.2 | 0.8 | 2.3 | |
Medical care | 629.695 | - | 629.710 | 1.8 | 0.0 | - | |
Recreation(3) | 143.645 | - | 151.948 | 3.0 | 5.8 | - | |
Education and communication(3) | 141.198 | - | 143.218 | 0.0 | 1.4 | - | |
Tuition, other school fees, and childcare(1) | 1,270.750 | - | 1,271.770 | 2.1 | 0.1 | - | |
Other goods and services | 492.144 | - | 481.256 | 0.3 | -2.2 | - | |
Footnotes | |||||||
- Data not available. |
Special aggregate inde | Indexes | Percent change from: | |||||
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Historical data | Nov. 2024 | Dec. 2024 | Jan. 2025 | Jan. 2024 | Nov. 2024 | Dec. 2024 | |
All items | 300.531 | - | 305.019 | 3.0 | 1.5 | - | |
Food | 354.295 | - | 357.007 | 2.5 | 0.8 | - | |
Energy | 242.376 | 248.438 | 257.581 | 6.4 | 6.3 | 3.7 | |
All items less food and energy | 304.628 | - | 308.603 | 2.9 | 1.3 | - | |
All items less energy | 310.961 | - | 314.778 | 2.8 | 1.2 | - | |
All items less medical care | 285.508 | - | 290.159 | 3.1 | 1.6 | - | |
All items less shelter | 281.439 | - | 287.926 | 2.7 | 2.3 | - | |
Commodities | 219.828 | - | 223.827 | 1.8 | 1.8 | - | |
Commodities less food | 169.718 | - | 173.892 | 1.3 | 2.5 | - | |
Commodities less food & beverages | 159.944 | - | 164.138 | 1.3 | 2.6 | - | |
Durables | 110.691 | - | 112.562 | -1.0 | 1.7 | - | |
Nondurables | 287.796 | - | 293.136 | 2.7 | 1.9 | - | |
Nondurables less food | 235.711 | - | 243.056 | 3.1 | 3.1 | - | |
Nondurables less food & beverages | 220.476 | - | 228.234 | 3.3 | 3.5 | - | |
Services | 371.769 | - | 376.591 | 3.6 | 1.3 | - | |
Services less rent of shelter(1) | 414.651 | - | 426.335 | 3.6 | 2.8 | - | |
Services less medical care services | 346.129 | - | 351.188 | 3.6 | 1.5 | - | |
- Data not available. |
Last Modified Date: Wednesday, February 12, 2025