The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) for Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale advanced 0.9 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 0.6 percent. The food index advanced 0.9 percent, and the energy index rose 5.2 percent. (Data in this report are not seasonally adjusted. Accordingly, bi-monthly changes may reflect seasonal influences.)

The Phoenix area all items CPI-U advanced 1.8 percent for the 12 months ending in February. The food index advanced 2.3 percent, and the energy index rose 3.9 percent. The index for all items less food and energy increased 1.6 percent over the year.

  

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Chart 1. Over-the-year percent change in CPI-U, Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ, February 2022–February 2025

Month	All items	All items less food and energy
Feb 2022	10.9	9.9
Apr 2022	11.0	9.7
Jun 2022	12.3	10.2
Aug 2022	13.0	12.3
Oct 2022	12.1	11.1
Dec 2022	9.5	10.2
Feb 2023	8.5	9.1
Apr 2023	7.4	8.1
Jun 2023	4.4	5.9
Aug 2023	3.7	3.5
Oct 2023	2.9	3.2
Dec 2023	2.7	2.8
Feb 2024	2.2	2.5
Apr 2024	2.6	3.0
Jun 2024	2.7	3.4
Aug 2024	2.3	3.2
Oct 2024	1.6	2.7
Dec 2024	1.6	1.8
Feb 2025	1.8	1.6

The food index advanced 0.9 percent from December 2024 to February 2025. The index for food at home (grocery store purchases) advanced 2.0 percent, with higher prices in 5 of the 6 grocery categories. The food away from home index (restaurant, cafeteria, and vending purchases) decreased 0.2 percent for the same period.

The food index rose 2.3 percent over the year. The food at home index increased 2.5 percent, with higher prices in 4 of the 6 grocery categories. The food away from home index increased 2.3 percent.

The energy index rose 5.2 percent from December 2024 to February 2025. Gasoline prices rose 11.1 percent.

The energy index rose 3.9 percent from February 2024 to February 2025. Over the year, gasoline prices rose 4.2 percent.

The index for all items less food and energy rose 0.6 percent from December 2024 to February 2025. Among the index’s components, prices were higher for recreation (+5.3 percent) and apparel (+5.1 percent). In contrast, prices were lower for other goods and services (-0.8 percent) and shelter (-0.2 percent).

The index for all items less food and energy increased 1.6 percent over the year, reflecting higher prices for recreation (+3.8 percent) and shelter (+1.2 percent). In contrast, prices were lower for education and communication (-3.5 percent) and apparel (-2.0 percent).

The April 2025 Consumer Price Index for the Phoenix 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 Phoenix 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 Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale metropolitan area covered in this release consists of Maricopa and Pinal Counties in the State of Arizona.

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Table 1. Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ, CPI-U by expenditure category for February 2025, not seasonally adjusted (December 2001=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		182.653	-	184.264	1.8	0.9	-
Food and beverages		188.839	-	190.663	2.1	1.0	-
Food		192.464	-	194.236	2.3	0.9	-
Food at home		183.369	183.394	187.071	2.5	2.0	2.0
Cereals and bakery products		242.664	246.788	245.709	2.5	1.3	-0.4
Meats, poultry, fish, and eggs		223.042	227.135	232.278	8.3	4.1	2.3
Dairy and related products		144.586	144.981	151.721	8.1	4.9	4.6
Fruits and vegetables		166.141	158.274	162.958	-0.6	-1.9	3.0
Nonalcoholic beverages and beverage materials		129.000	132.999	139.117	-1.0	7.8	4.6
Other food at home		181.006	179.922	181.369	0.7	0.2	0.8
Food away from home		209.030	-	208.566	2.3	-0.2	-
Alcoholic beverages		150.871	-	153.141	-0.1	1.5	-
Housing		207.244	-	207.417	1.7	0.1	-
Shelter		224.182	222.293	223.773	1.2	-0.2	0.7
Rent of primary residence		240.376	238.334	238.045	-0.4	-1.0	-0.1
Owners' equiv. rent of residences		224.044	222.527	223.204	2.1	-0.4	0.3
Owners' equiv. rent of primary residence		224.044	222.527	223.204	2.1	-0.4	0.3
Household furnishings and operations		117.760	-	120.124	3.9	2.0	-
Apparel		145.135	-	152.560	-2.0	5.1	-
Transportation		149.786	-	152.079	1.8	1.5	-
Private transportation		152.747	-	155.780	1.8	2.0	-
New and used motor vehicles		111.845	-	112.307	1.0	0.4	-
New vehicles		110.787	-	111.151	-0.5	0.3	-
Used cars and trucks		110.369	-	110.780	1.5	0.4	-
Motor fuel		267.751	266.003	296.376	3.5	10.7	11.4
Gasoline (all types)		267.392	265.516	296.975	4.2	11.1	11.8
Unleaded regular(1)		266.533	264.743	297.619	4.3	11.7	12.4
Unleaded midgrade(1)		282.516	280.696	311.414	3.9	10.2	10.9
Unleaded premium(1)		274.366	272.127	298.921	4.1	8.9	9.8
Medical Care		248.178	-	251.383	-	1.3	-
Recreation		125.652	-	132.293	3.8	5.3	-
Education and communication		115.795	-	115.796	-3.5	0.0	-
Tuition, other school fees, and child care		231.960	-	231.960	-	0.0	-
Other goods and services		177.451	-	175.947	0.3	-0.8	-
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. Data not seasonally adjusted.

Table 2. Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ, CPI-U by special aggregate index for February 2025, not seasonally adjusted (December 2001=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		182.653	-	184.264	1.8	0.9	-
Food		192.464	-	194.236	2.3	0.9	-
Energy		233.319	232.722	245.553	3.9	5.2	5.5
All items less food and energy		177.398	-	178.445	1.6	0.6	-
All items less energy		179.484	-	180.621	1.7	0.6	-
All items less medical care		178.988	-	180.504	1.5	0.8	-
All items less shelter		161.940	-	164.300	2.1	1.5	-
Commodities		144.200	-	146.780	0.8	1.8	-
Commodities less food		123.612	-	126.371	-0.1	2.2	-
Commodities less food & beverages		122.459	-	125.232	-0.1	2.3	-
Durables		85.716	-	85.902	-1.2	0.2	-
Nondurables		179.487	-	184.373	1.9	2.7	-
Nondurables less food & beverages		167.227	-	175.901	1.9	5.2	-
Nondurables less food		166.053	-	174.061	1.8	4.8	-
Services		209.941	-	210.689	2.2	0.4	-
Services less rent of shelter		190.829	-	192.770	3.3	1.0	-
Services less medical care services		206.112	-	206.562	1.8	0.2	-
- Data not available. NOTE: Index applies to a month as a whole, not to any specific date.