The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) for Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale advanced 0.4 percent for the two months ending in April 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 0.3 percent. The food index rose 1.0 percent, and the energy index increased 0.7 percent. (Data in this report are not seasonally adjusted. Accordingly, bi-monthly changes may reflect seasonal influences.)

The Phoenix area all items CPI-U rose 0.3 percent for the 12 months ending in April. The index for all items less food and energy advanced 0.7 percent over the year. The food index rose 2.6 percent, while energy prices declined 7.9 percent.

  

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

Month	All items	All items less food and energy
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
Apr 2025	0.3	0.7

The food index increased 1.0 percent from February to April. The index for food at home (grocery store purchases) increased 1.7 percent. The food away from home index (restaurant, cafeteria, and vending purchases) advanced 0.4 percent for the same period.

The food index rose 2.6 percent over the year. The food at home index increased 3.2 percent. The food away from home index advanced 2.4 percent.

The energy index increased 0.7 percent from February to April. Gasoline prices increased 0.6 percent.

The energy index declined 7.9 percent from April 2024 to April 2025. Over the year, gasoline prices decreased 16.0 percent.

The index for all items less food and energy rose 0.3 percent from February to April. Among the index’s components, prices were higher for medical care (+2.0 percent) and shelter (+0.5 percent). In contrast, prices were lower for recreation (-2.9 percent) and apparel (-2.4 percent).

The index for all items less food and energy advanced 0.7 percent over the year, reflecting higher prices for new and used motor vehicles (+0.4 percent). In contrast, prices were lower for apparel (-3.7 percent) and education and communication (-3.2 percent).

The June 2025 Consumer Price Index for the Phoenix area is scheduled to be released on July 15, 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 April 2025, not seasonally adjusted (December 2001=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		184.264	-	185.077	0.3	0.4	-
Food and beverages		190.663	-	192.424	2.4	0.9	-
Food		194.236	-	196.240	2.6	1.0	-
Food at home		187.071	189.262	190.184	3.2	1.7	0.5
Cereals and bakery products		245.709	244.246	248.121	2.2	1.0	1.6
Meats, poultry, fish, and eggs		232.278	233.221	-	-	-	-
Dairy and related products		151.721	152.368	155.844	8.2	2.7	2.3
Fruits and vegetables		162.958	154.321	-	-	-	-
Nonalcoholic beverages and beverage materials		139.117	149.616	153.252	7.9	10.2	2.4
Other food at home		181.369	187.318	187.351	2.9	3.3	0.0
Food away from home		208.566	-	209.318	2.4	0.4	-
Alcoholic beverages		153.141	-	152.615	0.3	-0.3	-
Housing		207.417	-	208.268	0.3	0.4	-
Shelter		223.773	223.761	224.929	-0.1	0.5	0.5
Rent of primary residence		238.045	237.278	237.655	-0.6	-0.2	0.2
Owners' equiv. rent of residences		223.204	222.627	222.330	1.7	-0.4	-0.1
Owners' equiv. rent of primary residence		223.204	222.627	222.330	1.7	-0.4	-0.1
Household furnishings and operations		120.124	-	-	-	-	-
Apparel		152.560	-	148.835	-3.7	-2.4	-
Transportation		152.079	-	152.309	-4.0	0.2	-
Private transportation		155.780	-	156.509	-3.5	0.5	-
New and used motor vehicles		112.307	-	112.593	0.4	0.3	-
New vehicles		111.151	-	111.453	0.2	0.3	-
Used cars and trucks		110.780	-	112.825	4.2	1.8	-
Motor fuel		296.376	297.379	298.041	-15.7	0.6	0.2
Gasoline (all types)		296.975	298.031	298.755	-16.0	0.6	0.2
Unleaded regular(1)		297.619	298.527	299.276	-16.6	0.6	0.3
Unleaded midgrade(1)		311.414	313.014	313.537	-14.9	0.7	0.2
Unleaded premium(1)		298.921	300.504	301.161	-13.6	0.7	0.2
Medical care		251.383	-	256.312	-	2.0	-
Recreation		132.293	-	128.459	-0.4	-2.9	-
Education and communication		115.796	-	116.239	-3.2	0.4	-
Tuition, other school fees, and childcare		231.960	-	231.960	-	0.0	-
Other goods and services		175.947	-	-	-	-	-
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.

Table 2. Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ, CPI-U by special aggregate index for April 2025, not seasonally adjusted (December 2001=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		184.264	-	185.077	0.3	0.4	-
Food		194.236	-	196.240	2.6	1.0	-
Energy		245.553	245.765	247.154	-7.9	0.7	0.6
All items less food and energy		178.445	-	179.047	0.7	0.3	-
All items less energy		180.621	-	181.395	0.9	0.4	-
All items less medical care		180.504	-	181.062	-0.3	0.3	-
All items less shelter		164.300	-	164.959	0.5	0.4	-
Commodities		146.780	-	146.948	-1.4	0.1	-
Commodities less food		126.371	-	125.932	-3.6	-0.3	-
Commodities less food & beverages		125.232	-	124.797	-3.9	-0.3	-
Durables		85.902	-	85.867	-1.2	0.0	-
Nondurables		184.373	-	184.749	-1.1	0.2	-
Nondurables less food		174.061	-	172.800	-4.6	-0.7	-
Nondurables less food & beverages		175.901	-	174.555	-5.1	-0.8	-
Services		210.689	-	212.023	1.1	0.6	-
Services less rent of shelter		192.770	-	194.253	2.5	0.8	-
Services less medical care services		206.562	-	207.321	0.3	0.4	-
- Data not available. NOTE: Index applies to a month as a whole, not to any specific date.