The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) for Urban Alaska area increased 1.9 percent for the 12 months ending in December, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported today. Regional Commissioner Chris Rosenlund noted that the index for all items less food and energy rose 1.6 percent over the year. The food index rose 2.9 percent, and the energy index rose 4.3 percent.

BLS did not collect survey data for October 2025 due to a lapse in appropriations. BLS is unable to retroactively collect these data. For a few indexes, BLS uses nonsurvey data sources instead of survey data to make the index calculations. BLS was able to retroactively acquire most of the nonsurvey data for October. Accordingly, all analysis in this release is over the year and not seasonally adjusted.

  

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

Month	All items	All items less food and energy
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
Apr 2025	1.6	2.3
Jun 2025	1.6	1.9
Aug 2025	2.4	2.3
Oct 2025	-	-
Dec 2025	1.9	1.6

Food prices advanced 2.9 percent over the year. Prices for food at home (grocery store purchases) increased 2.1 percent, and prices for food away from home (restaurant, cafeteria, and vending purchases) rose 4.6 percent.

The energy index increased 4.3 percent from December 2024 to December 2025. Over the year, gasoline prices rose 6.8 percent.

The index for all items less food and energy advanced 1.6 percent over the year. Among the index’s components, prices were higher for household furnishings and operations (+6.2 percent) and shelter (+3.2 percent). In contrast, prices were lower for new vehicles (-1.8 percent).

The February 2026 Consumer Price Index for the Anchorage area is scheduled to be released on March 11, 2026.

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 December 2025, not seasonally adjusted (1982-84=100 unless otherwise noted)

Expenditure category	Indexes				Percent change from -
	Historical data	Oct. 2025	Nov. 2025	Dec. 2025	Dec. 2024	Oct. 2025	Nov. 2025
All Items		-	-	272.355	1.9	-	-
All items (1967=100)		-	-	726.954
Food and beverages		-	-	272.581	2.9	-	-
Food		-	-	282.885	2.9	-	-
Food at home		-	268.209	264.545	2.1	-	-1.4
Cereals and bakery products		-	266.325	266.994	4.6	-	0.3
Meats, poultry, fish, and eggs		-	-	244.869	2.5	-	-
Dairy and related products		-	260.476	259.926	0.0	-	-0.2
Fruits and vegetables		-	405.079	404.378	-4.5	-	-0.2
Nonalcoholic beverages and beverage materials(1)		-	185.170	185.223	3.8	-	0.0
Other food at home		-	231.402	223.791	5.4	-	-3.3
Food away from home		-	-	320.183	4.6	-	-
Alcoholic beverages		-	-	-	-	-	-
Housing		-	-	248.064	3.4	-	-
Shelter		-	253.028	253.315	3.2	-	0.1
Rent of primary residence		-	255.153	256.586	3.8	-	0.6
Owners' equiv. rent of residences(2)		-	255.682	256.635	3.3	-	0.4
Owners' equiv. rent of primary residence(2)		-	255.682	256.635	3.3	-	0.4
Household furnishings and operations		-	-	140.443	6.2	-	-
Apparel		-	-	164.226	6.5	-	-
Transportation		-	-	265.796	-5.3	-	-
Private transportation		-	-	287.553	0.8	-	-
New and used motor vehicles(3)		-	-	120.940	-2.5	-	-
New vehicles(1)		264.765	-	263.280	-1.8	-0.6	-
Used cars and trucks(1)		348.171	-	339.814	2.2	-2.4	-
Motor fuel		-	321.355	303.023	6.5	-	-5.7
Gasoline (all types)		329.983	324.885	305.563	6.8	-7.4	-5.9
Unleaded regular(4)		316.159	310.952	291.896	6.8	-7.7	-6.1
Unleaded midgrade(4)(5)		321.137	316.993	299.376	6.5	-6.8	-5.6
Unleaded premium(4)		343.944	339.861	321.817	6.9	-6.4	-5.3
Medical Care		-	-	-	-	-	-
Recreation(3)		-	-	142.149	2.0	-	-
Education and communication(3)		-	-	114.991	0.7	-	-
Tuition, other school fees, and child care(1)		-	-	818.734	-0.5	-	-
Other goods and services		-	-	537.840	7.0	-	-
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. Note: October 2025 data values are not available due to the 2025 lapse in appropriations.

Table 2. Urban Alaska, CPI-U by special aggregate index for December 2025, not seasonally adjusted (1982-84=100 unless otherwise noted)

Special aggregate index	Indexes				Percent change from -
	Historical data	Oct. 2025	Nov. 2025	Dec. 2025	Dec. 2024	Oct. 2025	Nov. 2025
All items		-	-	272.355	1.9	-	-
Food		-	-	282.885	2.9	-	-
Energy		-	362.599	351.663	4.3	-	-3.0
All items less food and energy		-	-	266.625	1.6	-	-
All items less energy		-	-	268.145	1.7	-	-
All items less medical care		-	-	253.238	1.5	-	-
All items less shelter		-	-	278.991	1.1	-	-
Commodities		-	-	216.528	3.8	-	-
Commodities less food		-	-	188.020	4.3	-	-
Commodities less food & beverages		-	-	188.271	4.3	-	-
Durables		-	-	137.857	0.8	-	-
Nondurables		-	-	263.926	5.2	-	-
Nondurables less food & beverages		-	-	250.839	8.0	-	-
Nondurables less food		-	-	245.376	7.8	-	-
Services		-	-	323.140	1.0	-	-
Services less rent of shelter(1)		-	-	437.165	-1.6	-	-
Services less medical care services		-	-	293.239	0.6	-	-
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. Note: October 2025 data values are not available due to the 2025 lapse in appropriations.