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Wednesday, March 12, 2025
The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) in the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land area advanced 1.0 percent for the two months ending in February 2025, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Assistant Commissioner for Regional Operations Michael Hirniak noted that the all items less food and energy index rose 0.7 percent. The energy index advanced 3.5 percent in January and February, while the food index rose 1.3 percent. (Data in this report are not seasonally adjusted. Accordingly, bi-monthly changes may reflect seasonal influences.)
The Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land area all items CPI-U increased 1.0 percent for the 12 months ending in February. The index for all items less food and energy advanced 1.3 percent and food prices rose 2.5 percent over the year. Energy prices fell 3.8 percent.
FoodFood prices were up 1.3 percent for the two months ending in February. Prices for food at home (grocery store purchases) rose 1.6 percent, and prices for food away from home (restaurant, cafeteria, and vending purchases) increased 0.9 percent for the same period. Within the food at home category, advances in the indexes for meats, poultry, fish, and eggs (+5.2 percent), fruits and vegetables (+4.3 percent), and other food at home (+1.2 percent) outweighed decreases in the indexes for dairy and related products (-4.4 percent) and cereals and bakery products (-1.4 percent).
Food prices rose 2.5 percent over the year, with prices for food away from home (+3.8 percent) leading the change. Prices for food at home also advanced, up 1.1 percent. An 11.2-percent increase in the index for meats, poultry, fish, and eggs drove most of the rise in the food at home index. In contrast, the indexes for other food at home and dairy and related products declined over the 12-month period, falling 3.8 percent and 8.9 percent, respectively.
EnergyThe energy index rose 3.5 percent for the two months ending in February. Prices paid for gasoline increased 3.9 percent.
From February 2024 to February 2025, energy prices fell 3.8 percent. The index for gasoline declined 5.5 percent over the same period.
All items less food and energyThe index for all items less food and energy increased 0.7 percent during the two-month period. Among the index’s components, notable price advances were seen in the indexes for lodging away from home, household furnishings and operations (+4.5 percent), and medical care (+1.3 percent). In contrast, the indexes for owners’ equivalent rent of residences (-0.5 percent) and public transportation declined.
Over the year, the index for all items less food and energy increased 1.3 percent. Components contributing most to the increase included owners’ equivalent rent of residences (+1.1 percent), household furnishings and operations (+3.6 percent), and other goods and services (+4.2 percent). In contrast, prices were lower for new and used motor vehicles (-2.1 percent) and apparel (-3.9 percent).
The April 2025 Consumer Price Index for the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land area is scheduled to be released on Tuesday, May 13, 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 Houston 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 Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, Texas, Core Based Statistical Area includes the counties of Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Liberty, Montgomery, and Waller.
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Expenditure category |
Indexes | Percent change from: | |||||
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Historical data |
Dec. 2024 |
Jan. 2025 |
Feb. 2025 |
Feb. 2024 |
Dec. 2024 |
Jan. 2025 |
|
All items |
272.952 | - | 275.619 | 1.0 | 1.0 | - | |
All items (1967=100) |
875.454 | - | 884.011 | - | - | - | |
Food and beverages |
303.045 | - | 307.535 | 2.5 | 1.5 | - | |
Food |
306.115 | - | 309.945 | 2.5 | 1.3 | - | |
Food at home |
291.037 | 295.538 | 295.597 | 1.1 | 1.6 | 0.0 | |
Cereals and bakery products |
341.151 | 334.644 | 336.543 | -4.5 | -1.4 | 0.6 | |
Meats, poultry, fish, and eggs |
325.343 | 331.175 | 342.423 | 11.2 | 5.2 | 3.4 | |
Dairy and related products |
232.906 | 243.094 | 222.773 | -8.9 | -4.4 | -8.4 | |
Fruits and vegetables |
366.679 | 388.249 | 382.546 | 4.4 | 4.3 | -1.5 | |
Nonalcoholic beverages and beverage materials(1) |
352.548 | 363.947 | 351.494 | 0.2 | -0.3 | -3.4 | |
Other food at home |
243.770 | 240.426 | 246.698 | -3.8 | 1.2 | 2.6 | |
Food away from home |
317.155 | - | 319.978 | 3.8 | 0.9 | - | |
Alcoholic beverages |
243.628 | - | 257.710 | 4.7 | 5.8 | - | |
Housing |
270.280 | - | 273.008 | 1.6 | 1.0 | - | |
Shelter |
328.605 | 330.004 | 329.627 | 1.4 | 0.3 | -0.1 | |
Rent of primary residence |
326.168 | 324.878 | 325.774 | 1.1 | -0.1 | 0.3 | |
Owners' equiv. rent of residences(2) |
310.160 | 310.539 | 308.688 | 1.1 | -0.5 | -0.6 | |
Owners' equiv. rent of primary residence(2) |
310.160 | 310.539 | 308.688 | 1.1 | -0.5 | -0.6 | |
Household furnishings and operations |
154.441 | - | 161.348 | 3.6 | 4.5 | - | |
Apparel |
179.619 | - | 183.906 | -3.9 | 2.4 | - | |
Transportation |
232.747 | - | 234.962 | -1.3 | 1.0 | - | |
Private transportation |
233.770 | - | 237.480 | -1.3 | 1.6 | - | |
New and used motor vehicles(3) |
100.507 | - | 100.913 | -2.1 | 0.4 | - | |
New vehicles(1) |
194.884 | - | 196.022 | -0.2 | 0.6 | - | |
Used cars and trucks(1) |
292.891 | - | 295.121 | -0.5 | 0.8 | - | |
Motor fuel |
230.230 | 236.111 | 239.209 | -5.6 | 3.9 | 1.3 | |
Gasoline (all types) |
230.161 | 235.966 | 239.117 | -5.5 | 3.9 | 1.3 | |
Unleaded regular(4) |
229.769 | 235.833 | 239.115 | -5.9 | 4.1 | 1.4 | |
265.325 | 270.743 | 274.507 | -4.6 | 3.5 | 1.4 | ||
Unleaded premium(4) |
276.978 | 282.088 | 284.836 | -2.9 | 2.8 | 1.0 | |
Medical care |
546.602 | - | 553.519 | 1.0 | 1.3 | - | |
Recreation(3) |
131.016 | - | 130.028 | 1.1 | -0.8 | - | |
Education and communication(3) |
120.792 | - | 122.042 | 1.7 | 1.0 | - | |
Tuition, other school fees, and childcare(1) |
1,306.402 | - | 1,320.232 | -0.2 | 1.1 | - | |
Other goods and services |
488.046 | - | 491.316 | 4.2 | 0.7 | - | |
(1) Index is on a April 1978=100 base. |
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- Data not available. |
Special aggregate index |
Indexes | Percent change from: | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Historical data |
Dec. 2024 |
Jan. 2025 |
Feb. 2025 |
Feb. 2024 |
Dec. 2024 |
Jan. 2025 |
|
All items |
272.952 | - | 275.619 | 1.0 | 1.0 | - | |
Food |
306.115 | - | 309.945 | 2.5 | 1.3 | - | |
Energy |
190.631 | 195.932 | 197.255 | -3.8 | 3.5 | 0.7 | |
All items less food and energy |
281.389 | - | 283.454 | 1.3 | 0.7 | - | |
All items less energy |
285.034 | - | 287.298 | 1.4 | 0.8 | - | |
All items less medical care |
259.254 | - | 261.738 | 1.0 | 1.0 | - | |
All items less shelter |
251.230 | - | 254.571 | 0.8 | 1.3 | - | |
Commodities |
203.783 | - | 206.795 | -0.2 | 1.5 | - | |
Commodities less food |
162.858 | - | 165.423 | -1.7 | 1.6 | - | |
Commodities less food & beverages |
160.012 | - | 162.375 | -1.9 | 1.5 | - | |
Durables |
112.100 | - | 113.110 | -0.8 | 0.9 | - | |
Nondurables |
255.849 | - | 260.710 | 0.2 | 1.9 | - | |
Nondurables less food |
211.806 | - | 217.307 | -2.0 | 2.6 | - | |
Nondurables less food & beverages |
210.048 | - | 215.095 | -2.5 | 2.4 | - | |
Services |
342.728 | - | 345.090 | 1.7 | 0.7 | - | |
Services less rent of shelter(1) |
353.013 | - | 356.979 | 2.0 | 1.1 | - | |
Services less medical care services |
318.803 | - | 320.889 | 1.8 | 0.7 | - | |
- Data not available. |
Last Modified Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2025