The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) for Urban Alaska advanced 0.6 percent from December 2024 to February 2025, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Chris Rosenlund noted that the all items less food and energy index increased 0.7 percent. The food index rose 2.0 percent, while the energy index fell 2.2 percent. (Data in this report are not seasonally adjusted. Accordingly, bi-monthly changes may reflect seasonal influences.)

The Anchorage area all items CPI-U advanced 2.9 percent for the 12 months ending in February. The food index rose 5.1 percent, while the energy index fell 1.9 percent. The index for all items less food and energy increased 3.0 percent over the year.

  

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Chart 1. Over-the-year percent change in CPI-U, Urban Alaska, February 2022–February 2025

Month	All items	All items less food and energy
Feb 2022	7.4	5.9
Apr 2022	7.5	5.2
Jun 2022	12.4	6.3
Aug 2022	7.6	6.7
Oct 2022	7.6	6.6
Dec 2022	5.4	5.6
Feb 2023	4.3	5.0
Apr 2023	3.1	5.4
Jun 2023	-3.3	1.8
Aug 2023	2.0	2.7
Oct 2023	1.1	2.2
Dec 2023	1.8	2.5
Feb 2024	1.7	2.0
Apr 2024	3.2	2.7
Jun 2024	2.9	3.2
Aug 2024	1.5	2.4
Oct 2024	2.1	3.0
Dec 2024	2.3	2.5
Feb 2025	2.9	3.0

The food index advanced 2.0 percent from December 2024 to February 2025. The index for food at home (grocery store purchases) advanced 3.0 percent, with higher prices in 5 of the 6 grocery categories. The food away from home index (restaurant, cafeteria, and vending purchases) was unchanged for the same period.

The food index rose 5.1 percent over the year. The food at home index increased 4.1 percent, with higher prices in all six grocery categories. The food away from home index increased 7.8 percent.

The energy index fell 2.2 percent from December 2024 to February 2025. Gasoline prices declined 0.4 percent.

The energy index fell 1.9 percent from February 2024 to February 2025. Over the year, gasoline prices decreased 4.0 percent.

The index for all items less food and energy rose 0.7 percent during the two-month period. Among the index’s components, prices were higher for medical care (+1.3 percent) and shelter (+1.1 percent). In contrast, prices were lower for recreation (-0.7 percent).

The index for all items less food and energy increased 3.0 percent over the year, reflecting higher prices for medical care (+8.3 percent) and shelter (+3.6 percent). In contrast, prices were lower for household furnishings and operations (-3.0 percent) and new and used motor vehicles (-0.1 percent).

The April 2025 Consumer Price Index for the Anchorage area is scheduled to be released on May 13, 2025.

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 Urban Alaska 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.

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 Urban Alaska area covered in this release consists of Anchorage and Matanuska-Susitna Borough in the State of Alaska.

Refer to the national CPI news release technical note or the Handbook of Methods for more information.

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Table 1. Urban Alaska, 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		267.312	-	269.022	2.9	0.6	-
All items (1967=100)		713.492	-	718.058
Food and beverages		264.800	-	269.878	4.9	1.9	-
Food		274.793	-	280.247	5.1	2.0	-
Food at home		259.042	268.385	266.722	4.1	3.0	-0.6
Cereals and bakery products		255.131	267.087	266.241	0.7	4.4	-0.3
Meats, poultry, fish, and eggs		239.006	250.474	253.176	9.2	5.9	1.1
Dairy and related products		260.046	260.472	263.350	10.5	1.3	1.1
Fruits and vegetables		423.387	421.680	408.467	2.6	-3.5	-3.1
Nonalcoholic beverages and beverage materials(1)		178.434	188.628	188.581	1.9	5.7	0.0
Other food at home		212.324	223.819	221.535	2.4	4.3	-1.0
Food away from home		306.093	-	306.108	7.8	0.0	-
Alcoholic beverages		-	-	169.341	-	-	-
Housing		239.920	-	242.270	2.9	1.0	-
Shelter		245.557	246.915	248.355	3.6	1.1	0.6
Rent of primary residence		247.269	247.815	249.781	5.1	1.0	0.8
Owners' equiv. rent of residences(2)		248.377	249.272	250.483	4.1	0.8	0.5
Owners' equiv. rent of primary residence(2)		248.377	249.272	250.483	4.1	0.8	0.5
Household furnishings and operations		132.260	-	136.518	-3.0	3.2	-
Apparel		154.266	-	162.736	2.5	5.5	-
Transportation		280.710	-	275.589	0.8	-1.8	-
Private transportation		285.396	-	288.003	2.6	0.9	-
New and used motor vehicles(3)		124.004	-	124.831	-0.1	0.7	-
New vehicles(1)		268.033	-	265.759	-1.4	-0.8	-
Used cars and trucks(1)		332.379	-	335.125	-0.4	0.8	-
Motor fuel		284.459	279.688	283.281	-4.2	-0.4	1.3
Gasoline (all types)		286.054	281.114	284.807	-4.0	-0.4	1.3
Unleaded regular(4)		273.290	268.539	272.339	-4.3	-0.3	1.4
Unleaded midgrade(4)(5)		281.120	275.510	278.309	-3.3	-1.0	1.0
Unleaded premium(4)		301.082	296.067	298.920	-2.7	-0.7	1.0
Medical Care		798.708	-	808.840	8.3	1.3	-
Recreation(3)		139.321	-	138.301	-0.2	-0.7	-
Education and communication(3)		114.200	-	114.891	1.6	0.6	-
Tuition, other school fees, and child care(1)		823.183	-	823.378	4.0	0.0	-
Other goods and services		502.764	-	512.505	3.0	1.9	-
Footnotes (1) Index is on a January 1978=100 base. (2) Index is on a November 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. Data not seasonally adjusted.

Table 2. Urban Alaska, 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		267.312	-	269.022	2.9	0.6	-
Food		274.793	-	280.247	5.1	2.0	-
Energy		337.224	331.594	329.866	-1.9	-2.2	-0.5
All items less food and energy		262.521	-	264.279	3.0	0.7	-
All items less energy		263.590	-	265.769	3.3	0.8	-
All items less medical care		249.480	-	250.868	2.5	0.6	-
All items less shelter		275.900	-	276.835	2.5	0.3	-
Commodities		208.565	-	211.710	1.4	1.5	-
Commodities less food		180.267	-	182.512	-0.6	1.2	-
Commodities less food & beverages		180.448	-	182.736	-0.7	1.3	-
Durables		136.737	-	137.154	-1.5	0.3	-
Nondurables		250.763	-	255.984	3.0	2.1	-
Nondurables less food & beverages		232.186	-	237.480	0.1	2.3	-
Nondurables less food		227.625	-	232.609	0.2	2.2	-
Services		319.944	-	320.715	4.2	0.2	-
Services less rent of shelter(1)		444.150	-	440.411	4.8	-0.8	-
Services less medical care services		291.537	-	291.954	3.8	0.1	-
Footnotes (1) Indexes on a November 1982=100 base.
- Data not available. NOTE: Index applies to a month as a whole, not to any specific date.