The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) in the New York-Newark-Jersey City area rose 0.3 percent in February, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner William J. Sibley noted that prices for all items less food and energy increased 0.3 percent over the month. (Data in this report are not seasonally adjusted. Accordingly, month-to-month changes may reflect seasonal influences.)

The New York-Newark-Jersey City area all items CPI-U increased 4.2 percent for the 12 months ending in February. The index for all items less food and energy advanced 4.4 percent over the year. Food prices rose 2.7 percent. Energy prices advanced 4.9 percent.

  

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Chart 1. Over-the-year percent change in CPI-U, New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA, February 2022–February 2025

Month	All items	All items less food and energy
Feb 2022	5.1	4.0
Mar 2022	6.1	4.1
Apr 2022	6.3	4.4
May 2022	6.3	3.6
Jun 2022	6.7	4.1
Jul 2022	6.5	4.2
Aug 2022	6.6	4.6
Sep 2022	6.2	5.0
Oct 2022	6.0	4.9
Nov 2022	5.9	4.5
Dec 2022	6.3	5.4
Jan 2023	6.0	5.7
Feb 2023	6.0	5.6
Mar 2023	4.6	5.1
Apr 2023	3.7	4.4
May 2023	3.5	5.1
Jun 2023	2.5	3.8
Jul 2023	3.2	4.4
Aug 2023	3.5	4.5
Sep 2023	3.7	4.1
Oct 2023	3.5	4.0
Nov 2023	3.0	3.9
Dec 2023	2.9	3.4
Jan 2024	3.1	3.7
Feb 2024	2.9	3.4
Mar 2024	3.4	3.5
Apr 2024	3.8	3.9
May 2024	3.9	4.0
Jun 2024	4.2	4.4
Jul 2024	4.1	4.3
Aug 2024	3.7	4.4
Sep 2024	3.8	4.5
Oct 2024	4.0	4.7
Nov 2024	4.3	5.2
Dec 2024	4.3	4.7
Jan 2025	4.0	4.4
Feb 2025	4.2	4.4

Food prices increased 0.5 percent for the month of February. Prices for food at home increased 0.7 percent, and prices for food away from home rose 0.4 percent. Within the food at home category, components with higher February prices included meats, poultry, fish, and eggs and cereals and bakery products. Components with lower prices included fruits and vegetables.

Food prices rose 2.7 percent over the year. Prices for food at home rose 2.6 percent, and prices for food away from home increased 2.8 percent.

The energy index rose 0.7 percent over the month. Gasoline prices increased 0.4 percent.

Energy prices advanced 4.9 percent over the year. The gasoline index declined 4.8 percent.

The index for all items less food and energy increased 0.3 percent from January to February. Among the index’s components, prices were higher for shelter (+0.4 percent) and recreation (+1.3 percent). Within shelter, prices rose for owners’ equivalent rent (+0.3 percent), rent of primary residence (+0.3 percent), and lodging away from home. In contrast, indexes with price declines included airline fares and personal care.

Over the year, the index for all items less food and energy advanced 4.4 percent. Shelter prices rose 5.6 percent, reflecting price increases of 5.8 percent for owners’ equivalent rent and 5.1 percent for rent of primary residence. Other expenditure categories with higher prices were recreation (+9.1 percent) and education and communication (+3.5 percent).

The Consumer Price Index for March 2025 is scheduled to be released on Thursday, April 10, 2025, at 8:30 a.m. (ET).

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 New York 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. 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 New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Core Based Statistical Area includes Bronx, Dutchess, Kings, Nassau, New York, Orange, Putnam, Queens, Richmond, Rockland, Suffolk, and Westchester Counties in New York; Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Hunterdon, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Passaic, Somerset, Sussex, and Union Counties in New Jersey; and Pike County in Pennsylvania.

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Table 1. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA, CPI-U by expenditure category for February 2025, not seasonally adjusted (1982-84=100 unless otherwise noted)

Expenditure category	Indexes				Percent change from:
	Historical data	Dec. 2024	Jan. 2025	Feb. 2025	Feb. 2024	Dec. 2024	Jan. 2025
All items		338.610	341.144	342.333	4.2	1.1	0.3
All items (1967=100)		978.873	986.199	989.636	-	-	-
Food and beverages		342.285	342.309	344.130	2.6	0.5	0.5
Food		344.065	344.081	345.956	2.7	0.5	0.5
Food at home		321.974	322.052	324.204	2.6	0.7	0.7
Cereals and bakery products		380.830	380.581	387.337	0.6	1.7	1.8
Meats, poultry, fish, and eggs		328.336	336.566	343.185	9.0	4.5	2.0
Dairy and related products		277.344	275.313	274.023	0.0	-1.2	-0.5
Fruits and vegetables		384.443	376.126	368.708	-2.5	-4.1	-2.0
Nonalcoholic beverages and beverage materials(1)		321.879	327.048	328.685	3.8	2.1	0.5
Other food at home		287.548	285.421	289.184	2.6	0.6	1.3
Food away from home		387.583	387.488	388.878	2.8	0.3	0.4
Alcoholic beverages		311.197	311.330	312.326	1.3	0.4	0.3
Housing		372.852	374.771	376.471	5.8	1.0	0.5
Shelter		466.673	468.314	470.263	5.6	0.8	0.4
Rent of primary residence		477.103	478.226	479.706	5.1	0.5	0.3
Owners' equiv. rent of residences(2)		483.044	483.201	484.669	5.8	0.3	0.3
Owners' equiv. rent of primary residence(2)		482.446	482.603	484.069	5.8	0.3	0.3
Household furnishings and operations		138.969	138.949	139.427	3.3	0.3	0.3
Apparel		121.950	129.782	129.286	-0.8	6.0	-0.4
Transportation		286.999	286.937	286.262	3.2	-0.3	-0.2
Private transportation		287.235	289.104	288.587	4.5	0.5	-0.2
New and used motor vehicles(3)		125.200	125.907	125.749	2.5	0.4	-0.1
New vehicles(1)		257.727	257.885	257.827	-0.6	0.0	0.0
Used cars and trucks(1)		356.834	358.815	358.775	1.7	0.5	0.0
Motor fuel		243.121	247.330	248.450	-4.8	2.2	0.5
Gasoline (all types)		242.065	246.229	247.321	-4.8	2.2	0.4
Gasoline, unleaded regular(4)		237.968	242.288	243.383	-4.9	2.3	0.5
Gasoline, unleaded midgrade(4)(5)		264.129	267.664	269.000	-4.4	1.8	0.5
Gasoline, unleaded premium(4)		272.708	276.106	277.195	-4.4	1.6	0.4
Medical care		561.359	566.648	569.056	0.4	1.4	0.4
Recreation(3)		155.615	163.246	165.352	9.1	6.3	1.3
Education and communication(3)		164.431	164.760	165.530	3.5	0.7	0.5
Tuition, other school fees, and childcare(1)		1,430.366	1,431.168	1,431.168	4.8	0.1	0.0
Other goods and services		495.207	507.397	504.143	-0.4	1.8	-0.6
Footnotes (1) Indexes on a December 1977=100 base. (2) Indexes on a December 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. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA, CPI-U by special aggregate index for February 2025, not seasonally adjusted (1982-84=100 unless otherwise noted)

Special aggregate index	Indexes				Percent change from:
	Historical data	Dec. 2024	Jan. 2025	Feb. 2025	Feb. 2024	Dec. 2024	Jan. 2025
All items		338.610	341.144	342.333	4.2	1.1	0.3
Food		344.065	344.081	345.956	2.7	0.5	0.5
Energy		258.750	265.420	267.290	4.9	3.3	0.7
All items less food and energy		352.278	354.928	355.968	4.4	1.0	0.3
All items less energy		348.949	351.205	352.359	4.1	1.0	0.3
All items less medical care		328.693	331.109	332.246	4.4	1.1	0.3
All items less shelter		287.272	290.172	291.055	3.3	1.3	0.3
Commodities		224.484	227.203	227.834	0.9	1.5	0.3
Commodities less food		163.679	167.206	167.329	-0.5	2.2	0.1
Commodities less food & beverages		158.253	161.832	161.932	-0.6	2.3	0.1
Durables		110.509	111.126	111.040	0.8	0.5	-0.1
Nondurables		268.689	272.564	273.662	1.0	1.9	0.4
Nondurables less food		200.557	207.673	208.091	-1.4	3.8	0.2
Nondurables less food & beverages		193.654	201.199	201.582	-1.6	4.1	0.2
Services		435.127	437.502	439.163	5.6	0.9	0.4
Services less rent of shelter(1)		413.572	416.874	418.238	5.8	1.1	0.3
Services less medical care services		421.223	423.593	425.072	6.1	0.9	0.3
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.