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22-2003-SAN
Thursday, October 13, 2022

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Consumer Price Index, Riverside Area – September 2022

Area prices were unchanged over the past two months, up 8.4 percent from a year ago

Prices in the Riverside area, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), were unchanged for the two months ending in September 2022, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table A.) Regional Commissioner Chris Rosenlund noted that lower gas prices were offset by higher food, shelter, and medical care prices. (Data in this report are not seasonally adjusted. Accordingly, bi-monthly changes may reflect seasonal influences.)

Over the last 12 months, the CPI-U increased 8.4 percent. (See chart 1 and table A.) Food prices rose 11.5 percent. Energy prices rose 23.6 percent, largely the result of an increase in the price of gasoline. The index for all items less food and energy increased 6.0 percent over the year. (See table 1.)

Chart 1. Over-the-year percent change in CPI-U, Riverside, September 2019-September 2022
Food

Food prices rose 1.8 percent for the two months ending in September. (See table 1.) Prices for food at home rose 2.1 percent, led by higher prices for dairy and related products (7.4 percent). Prices for food away from home increased 1.5 percent for the same period.

Over the year, food prices rose 11.5 percent. Prices for food at home increased 12.2 percent since a year ago, ranging from 9.3 percent for meats, poultry, fish, and eggs to 21.0 percent for cereals and bakery products. Prices for food away from home increased 10.7 percent.

Energy

The energy index declined 4.5 percent for the two months ending in September. The decrease was mainly due to lower prices for gasoline (-8.3 percent). Prices for natural gas service increased 11.7 percent, and prices for electricity rose 0.3 percent for the same period.

Energy prices rose 23.6 percent over the year, largely due to higher prices for gasoline (25.1 percent). Prices paid for natural gas service rose 29.7 percent, and prices for electricity advanced 14.8 percent during the past year.

All items less food and energy

The index for all items less food and energy increased 0.4 percent in the latest two-month period. Higher prices for medical care (3.6 percent) and shelter (0.5 percent) were partially offset by lower prices for new and used motor vehicles (-2.0 percent) and education and communication (-0.2 percent).

Over the year, the index for all items less food and energy increased 6.0 percent. Components contributing to the increase included medical care (9.1 percent) and shelter (6.3 percent). Partly offsetting the increases was a price decrease in new vehicles (-1.2 percent).

Table A. Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA, CPI-U 2-month and 12-month percent changes, all items index, not seasonally adjusted
Month2019202020212022
2-month12-month2-month12-month2-month12-month2-month12-month

January

0.43.00.53.00.92.21.58.6

March

0.72.80.02.31.33.62.710.0

May

1.22.9-0.20.92.05.91.49.4

July

-0.12.60.71.71.36.51.19.2

September

0.63.10.51.70.86.80.08.4

November

0.22.90.41.91.47.9

The November 2022 Consumer Price Index for the Riverside area is scheduled to be released on December 13, 2022.


Technical Note

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measures of the average change in prices over time in a fixed market basket of goods and services. The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes CPIs for two population groups: (1) a CPI for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) which covers approximately 93 percent of the total U.S. population and (2) a CPI for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) which covers approximately 29 percent of the total U.S. population. The CPI-U includes, in addition to wage earners and clerical workers, groups such as professional, managerial, and technical workers, the self-employed, short-term workers, the unemployed, and retirees and others not in the labor force.

The CPI is based on prices of food, clothing, shelter, and fuels, transportation fares, charges for doctors' and dentists' services, drugs, and the other goods and services that people buy for day-to-day living. Each month, prices are collected in 75 urban areas across the country from about 6,000 housing units and approximately 22,000 retail establishments—department stores, supermarkets, hospitals, filling stations, and other types of stores and service establishments. All taxes directly associated with the purchase and use of items are included in the index.

The index measures price changes from a designated reference date; for most of the CPI-U the reference base is 1982-84 equals 100. An increase of 7 percent from the reference base, for example, is shown as 107.000.  Alternatively, that relationship can also be expressed as the price of a base period market basket of goods and services rising from $100 to $107. For further details see the CPI home page on the Internet at www.bls.gov/cpi and the CPI section of the BLS Handbook of Methods available on the internet at www.bls.gov/opub/hom/cpi/.

In calculating the index, price changes for the various items in each location are averaged together with weights that represent their importance in the spending of the appropriate population group. Local data are then combined to obtain a U.S. city average. Because the sample size of a local area is smaller, the local area index is subject to substantially more sampling and other measurement error than the national index. In addition, local indexes are not adjusted for seasonal influences. As a result, local area indexes show greater volatility than the national index, although their long-term trends are quite similar. 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.

The Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metropolitan area includes Riverside and San Bernardino Counties in California.

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Table 1. Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U): Indexes and percent changes for selected periods

Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario (December 2017=100 unless otherwise noted)
Item and Group

IndexesPercent change from-
Historical
data
Jul.
2022
Aug.
2022
Sep.
2022
Sep.
2021
Jul.
2022
Aug.
2022

Expenditure category

All items

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSA0
125.262-125.2728.40.0-

Food and beverages

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAF
126.916-129.10911.11.7-

Food

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAF1
127.666-129.98011.51.8-

Food at home

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAF11
127.189128.271129.81912.22.11.2

Cereals and bakery products

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAF111
142.040-145.08821.02.1-

Meats, poultry, fish, and eggs

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAF112
131.767-132.4729.30.5-

Dairy and related products

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSEFJ
110.398-118.55412.37.4-

Fruits and vegetables

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAF113
125.918-127.3789.41.2-

Nonalcoholic beverages and beverage materials

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAF114
127.614-131.0509.52.7-

Other food at home

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAF115
122.789-125.17314.21.9-

Food away from home

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSEFV
127.783-129.64010.71.5-

Alcoholic beverages

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAF116
113.331-113.1852.6-0.1-

Housing

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAH
124.904-125.9397.80.8-

Shelter

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAH1
122.825123.285123.4716.30.50.2

Rent of primary residence

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSEHA
124.612125.231125.8397.91.00.5

Owners' equiv. rent of residences

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSEHC
122.684122.972123.1046.30.30.1

Owners' equiv. rent of primary residence

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSEHC01
122.684122.972123.1046.30.30.1

Fuels and utilities

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAH2
144.056-147.51315.02.4-

Household energy

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAH21
152.199156.747157.40819.83.40.4

Energy services

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSEHF
153.135157.764158.44219.93.50.4

Electricity

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSEHF01
145.903145.903146.40514.80.30.3

Utility (piped) gas service

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSEHF02
174.969194.211195.44029.711.70.6

Household furnishings and operations

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAH3
119.250-120.80411.71.3-

Apparel

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAA
110.420-113.1827.82.5-

Transportation

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAT
142.425-136.42011.2-4.2-

Private transportation

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAT1
145.519-138.92711.0-4.5-

New and used motor vehicles

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSETA
121.458-119.0504.7-2.0-

New vehicles

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSETA01
114.904-112.772-1.2-1.9-

Used cars and trucks

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSETA02
154.960-147.5378.1-4.8-

Motor fuel

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSETB
192.903173.523177.02325.5-8.22.0

Gasoline (all types)

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSETB01
192.960173.363176.91025.1-8.32.0

Gasoline, unleaded regular(1)

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSS47014
194.180174.203177.72925.2-8.52.0

Gasoline, unleaded midgrade(1)

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSS47015
192.476173.475177.35224.8-7.92.2

Gasoline, unleaded premium(1)

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSS47016
187.125169.152172.74524.6-7.72.1

Medical care

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAM
117.527-121.7099.13.6-

Recreation

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAR
105.453-107.5787.72.0-

Education and communication

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAE
110.068-109.8640.1-0.2-

Tuition, other school fees, and child care

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSEEB
121.248-----

Other goods and services

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAG
118.616-121.3294.72.3-

Commodity and service group

All items

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSA0
125.262-125.2728.40.0-

Commodities

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAC
129.680-128.00510.1-1.3-

Commodities less food & beverages

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSACL11
131.133-127.4029.7-2.8-

Nondurables less food & beverages

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSANL11
141.898-137.19516.0-3.3-

Durables

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAD
120.130-117.3383.5-2.3-

Services

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAS
122.563-123.6747.30.9-

Special aggregate indexes

All items less medical care

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSA0L5
125.787-125.5278.4-0.2-

All items less shelter

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSA0L2
126.691-126.3579.6-0.3-

Commodities less food

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSACL1
130.600-126.9629.5-2.8-

Nondurables

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAN
134.049-132.94813.5-0.8-

Nondurables less food

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSANL1
140.365-135.89515.4-3.2-

Services less rent of shelter

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSASL2RS
122.081-123.8128.61.4-

Services less medical care services

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSASL5
122.732-123.4897.00.6-

Energy

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSA0E
178.323167.870170.31623.6-4.51.5

All items less energy

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSA0LE
120.540-121.2806.80.6-

All items less food and energy

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSA0L1E
119.407-119.8866.00.4-

Footnotes
(1) Special index based on a substantially smaller sample.

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

 

Last Modified Date: Thursday, October 13, 2022