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Tuesday, May 13, 2025

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Consumer Price Index, New York-Newark-Jersey City — April 2025

Area prices up 0.4 percent in April, 3.9 percent over the year

The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) in the New York-Newark-Jersey City area rose 0.4 percent in April, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Acting Regional Commissioner Mark J. Maggi noted that prices for all items less food and energy increased 0.6 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 rose 3.9 percent for the 12 months ending in April. The index for all items less food and energy advanced 4.3 percent over the year. Food prices rose 1.8 percent. Energy prices increased 1.7 percent.

Food

The food index declined 0.6 percent for the month of April. Prices for food at home decreased 1.2 percent, with lower prices recorded in four of the six major grocery categories. Prices for food away from home increased 0.3 percent.

Food prices rose 1.8 percent over the year. Prices for food away from home increased 3.0 percent, and prices for food at home increased 1.1 percent.

Energy

The energy index rose 1.1 percent over the month. Gasoline prices edged up 0.2 percent.

Energy prices increased 1.7 percent over the year. Gasoline prices fell 13.2 percent.

All items less food and energy

The index for all items less food and energy rose 0.6 percent in April. Shelter prices increased 0.6 percent as prices increased for owners’ equivalent rent (+0.3 percent), rent of primary residence (+0.4 percent), and lodging away from home. Prices for household furnishings and operations rose 3.8 percent.

Over the year, the index for all items less food and energy advanced 4.3 percent. A 5.5-percent increase in shelter prices included increases of 6.0 percent for owners’ equivalent rent and 5.5 percent for rent of primary residence. Prices also rose for recreation (+9.3 percent).

The Consumer Price Index for May 2025 is scheduled to be released on Wednesday, June 11, 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 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 April 2025, not seasonally adjusted (1982-84=100 unless otherwise noted)
Expenditure category

Indexes Percent change from:
Historical
data
Feb.
2025
Mar.
2025
Apr.
2025
Apr.
2024
Feb.
2025
Mar.
2025

All items

342.333 342.508 344.047 3.9 0.5 0.4

All items (1967=100)

989.636 990.142 994.592 - - -

Food and beverages

344.130 345.235 343.275 1.8 -0.2 -0.6

Food

345.956 347.076 345.045 1.8 -0.3 -0.6

Food at home

324.204 325.517 321.696 1.1 -0.8 -1.2

Cereals and bakery products

387.337 380.043 386.953 -0.8 -0.1 1.8

Meats, poultry, fish, and eggs

343.185 344.480 339.036 6.3 -1.2 -1.6

Dairy and related products

274.023 281.588 275.299 -0.1 0.5 -2.2

Fruits and vegetables

368.708 366.215 369.003 -2.6 0.1 0.8

Nonalcoholic beverages and beverage materials(1)

328.685 331.181 326.044 2.9 -0.8 -1.6

Other food at home

289.184 293.553 283.961 -0.2 -1.8 -3.3

Food away from home

388.878 389.654 390.866 3.0 0.5 0.3

Alcoholic beverages

312.326 313.207 312.306 1.1 0.0 -0.3

Housing

376.471 375.818 379.339 5.9 0.8 0.9

Shelter

470.263 470.491 473.400 5.5 0.7 0.6

Rent of primary residence

479.706 481.445 483.517 5.5 0.8 0.4

Owners' equiv. rent of residences(2)

484.669 486.562 488.264 6.0 0.7 0.3

Owners' equiv. rent of primary residence(2)

484.069 485.959 487.660 6.0 0.7 0.4

Household furnishings and operations

139.427 138.131 143.436 5.6 2.9 3.8

Apparel

129.286 132.198 130.240 -1.9 0.7 -1.5

Transportation

286.262 286.987 288.074 0.1 0.6 0.4

Private transportation

288.587 289.662 290.569 1.7 0.7 0.3

New and used motor vehicles(3)

125.749 126.113 126.881 1.1 0.9 0.6

New vehicles(1)

257.827 257.784 258.756 -0.2 0.4 0.4

Used cars and trucks(1)

358.775 358.939 360.355 1.7 0.4 0.4

Motor fuel

248.450 244.060 244.436 -13.2 -1.6 0.2

Gasoline (all types)

247.321 242.938 243.323 -13.2 -1.6 0.2

Gasoline, unleaded regular(4)

243.383 238.849 239.351 -13.7 -1.7 0.2

Gasoline, unleaded midgrade(4)(5)

269.000 265.465 265.226 -11.1 -1.4 -0.1

Gasoline, unleaded premium(4)

277.195 273.526 273.259 -10.7 -1.4 -0.1

Medical care

569.056 567.687 570.208 2.3 0.2 0.4

Recreation(3)

165.352 164.841 165.835 9.3 0.3 0.6

Education and communication(3)

165.530 165.980 165.511 3.6 0.0 -0.3

Tuition, other school fees, and childcare(1)

1,431.168 1,431.437 1,431.437 4.8 0.0 0.0

Other goods and services

504.143 505.015 510.748 0.8 1.3 1.1

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 April 2025, not seasonally adjusted (1982-84=100 unless otherwise noted)
Special aggregate index

Indexes Percent change from:
Historical
data
Feb.
2025
Mar.
2025
Apr.
2025
Apr.
2024
Feb.
2025
Mar.
2025

All items

342.333 342.508 344.047 3.9 0.5 0.4

Food

345.956 347.076 345.045 1.8 -0.3 -0.6

Energy

267.290 262.612 265.506 1.7 -0.7 1.1

All items less food and energy

355.968 356.416 358.470 4.3 0.7 0.6

All items less energy

352.359 352.900 354.357 4.0 0.6 0.4

All items less medical care

332.246 332.482 333.977 4.0 0.5 0.4

All items less shelter

291.055 291.209 292.196 2.8 0.4 0.3

Commodities

227.834 227.808 227.033 -0.3 -0.4 -0.3

Commodities less food

167.329 166.878 166.627 -2.1 -0.4 -0.2

Commodities less food & beverages

161.932 161.451 161.219 -2.2 -0.4 -0.1

Durables

111.040 110.732 110.740 0.0 -0.3 0.0

Nondurables

273.662 273.883 272.621 -0.3 -0.4 -0.5

Nondurables less food

208.091 207.543 206.955 -3.4 -0.5 -0.3

Nondurables less food & beverages

201.582 200.946 200.377 -3.8 -0.6 -0.3

Services

439.163 439.509 443.009 5.8 0.9 0.8

Services less rent of shelter(1)

418.238 418.731 423.024 6.1 1.1 1.0

Services less medical care services

425.072 425.462 428.939 6.0 0.9 0.8

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, May 13, 2025