Prices in the Los Angeles area, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), fell 0.2 percent in June, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table A.) Regional Commissioner Chris Rosenlund noted that the June decrease was influenced by lower prices for gasoline. (Data in this report are not seasonally adjusted. Accordingly, month-to-month changes may reflect seasonal influences.)

Over the last 12 months, the CPI-U increased 3.2 percent. (See chart 1 and table A.) Food prices increased 3.1 percent, while energy prices fell 1.2 percent. The index for all items less food and energy rose 3.6 percent over the year. (See table 1.)

  

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Chart 1. Over-the-year percent change in CPI-U, Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA, June 2021–June 2024

Month	All items	All items less food and energy
Jun 2021	4.0	2.3
Jul 2021	3.9	2.3
Aug 2021	4.0	2.3
Sep 2021	4.6	3.0
Oct 2021	5.4	3.4
Nov 2021	6.0	3.6
Dec 2021	6.6	4.4
Jan 2022	7.5	5.5
Feb 2022	7.4	5.9
Mar 2022	8.5	6.2
Apr 2022	7.9	5.8
May 2022	8.0	5.8
Jun 2022	8.6	6.0
Jul 2022	7.7	5.7
Aug 2022	7.6	6.2
Sep 2022	7.8	6.3
Oct 2022	7.5	6.0
Nov 2022	6.0	5.2
Dec 2022	4.9	4.5
Jan 2023	5.8	4.5
Feb 2023	5.1	4.5
Mar 2023	3.7	4.3
Apr 2023	3.8	4.5
May 2023	3.2	4.3
Jun 2023	2.5	4.0
Jul 2023	2.7	3.4
Aug 2023	3.3	3.5
Sep 2023	3.2	3.2
Oct 2023	2.4	2.7
Nov 2023	2.8	2.8
Dec 2023	3.5	3.4
Jan 2024	2.5	3.7
Feb 2024	3.4	3.8
Mar 2024	4.0	4.3
Apr 2024	3.9	3.8
May 2024	3.9	3.8
Jun 2024	3.2	3.6

Food prices decreased 0.2 percent for the month of June. (See table 1.) Prices for food at home declined 1.3 percent, largely due to lower prices for fruits and vegetables (-4.6 percent). Prices for food away from home rose 1.0 percent for the same period.

Over the year, food prices increased 3.1 percent. Prices for food at home rose 1.3 percent since a year ago, led by higher prices for meats, poultry, fish, and eggs (5.5 percent). Prices for food away from home advanced 5.2 percent.

The energy index declined 4.9 percent over the month. The decrease was mainly due to lower prices for gasoline (-6.8 percent). Prices for electricity declined 3.2 percent, while prices for natural gas service increased 1.0 percent for the same period.

Energy prices fell 1.2 percent over the year, influenced by lower prices for gasoline (-1.7 percent). Prices for natural gas service decreased 8.3 percent, while prices paid for electricity advanced 1.5 percent during the past year.

The index for all items less food and energy rose 0.2 percent in June. Higher prices for medical care (1.2 percent) and shelter (0.4 percent) were partially offset by lower prices for apparel (-2.0 percent) and other goods and services (-0.7 percent).

Over the year, the index for all items less food and energy rose 3.6 percent. Components contributing to the increase included shelter (5.3 percent) and medical care (5.2 percent). Partly offsetting the increases were price decreases in new and used motor vehicles (-3.6 percent), recreation (-2.6 percent), and household furnishings and operations (-2.2 percent).

The July 2024 Consumer Price Index for the Los Angeles area is scheduled to be released on August 14, 2024.

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 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metropolitan area includes Los Angeles and Orange 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

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim (1982-84=100 unless otherwise noted)

Item and Group	Indexes				Percent change from-
	Historical data	Apr. 2024	May 2024	Jun. 2024	Jun. 2023	Apr. 2024	May 2024
Expenditure category
All items		332.572	332.956	332.357	3.2	-0.1	-0.2
All items (1967=100)		982.566	983.700	981.930	-	-	-
Food and beverages		337.613	338.302	337.624	2.8	0.0	-0.2
Food		340.092	340.783	340.124	3.1	0.0	-0.2
Food at home		322.600	324.389	320.069	1.3	-0.8	-1.3
Cereals and bakery products		346.088	343.760	342.228	-0.3	-1.1	-0.4
Meats, poultry, fish, and eggs		354.902	358.451	356.286	5.5	0.4	-0.6
Dairy and related products		299.095	297.772	292.577	-1.6	-2.2	-1.7
Fruits and vegetables		420.401	424.752	405.043	-1.6	-3.7	-4.6
Nonalcoholic beverages and beverage materials(1)		307.748	306.517	300.753	-1.7	-2.3	-1.9
Other food at home		261.428	264.576	266.007	3.0	1.8	0.5
Food away from home		355.156	354.603	358.065	5.2	0.8	1.0
Alcoholic beverages		281.200	281.818	280.885	-1.6	-0.1	-0.3
Housing		380.319	381.402	382.279	4.4	0.5	0.2
Shelter		437.090	438.671	440.257	5.3	0.7	0.4
Rent of primary residence(2)		460.739	462.776	464.130	4.6	0.7	0.3
Owners' equiv. rent of residences(2)(3)		454.312	454.458	456.384	5.6	0.5	0.4
Owners' equiv. rent of primary residence(1)(2)		454.286	454.432	456.357	5.6	0.5	0.4
Fuels and utilities		468.149	473.671	466.055	1.2	-0.4	-1.6
Household energy		409.116	416.045	406.695	-0.7	-0.6	-2.2
Energy services(2)		407.423	414.487	405.123	-0.6	-0.6	-2.3
Electricity(2)		498.648	498.493	482.766	1.5	-3.2	-3.2
Utility (piped) gas service(2)		260.717	283.320	286.096	-8.3	9.7	1.0
Household furnishings and operations		131.252	129.515	130.103	-2.2	-0.9	0.5
Apparel		123.045	122.459	120.005	-0.5	-2.5	-2.0
Transportation		280.141	278.824	272.825	2.9	-2.6	-2.2
Private transportation		280.347	278.512	274.080	2.6	-2.2	-1.6
New and used motor vehicles(4)		110.866	111.381	110.129	-3.6	-0.7	-1.1
New vehicles(1)		192.628	191.985	191.809	-2.4	-0.4	-0.1
Used cars and trucks(1)		346.094	348.271	348.984	-9.8	0.8	0.2
Motor fuel		403.464	391.911	365.320	-1.7	-9.5	-6.8
Gasoline (all types)		393.569	382.348	356.202	-1.7	-9.5	-6.8
Gasoline, unleaded regular(4)		394.624	383.079	356.433	-1.8	-9.7	-7.0
Gasoline, unleaded midgrade(4)(5)		375.568	365.426	341.277	-1.6	-9.1	-6.6
Gasoline, unleaded premium(4)		376.231	366.493	342.954	-1.2	-8.8	-6.4
Medical care		575.116	578.777	585.589	5.2	1.8	1.2
Recreation(6)		123.111	120.891	121.191	-2.6	-1.6	0.2
Education and communication(6)		159.468	159.971	160.716	2.4	0.8	0.5
Tuition, other school fees, and child care(1)		2,283.871	2,297.171	2,311.711	3.5	1.2	0.6
Other goods and services		535.089	542.404	538.631	-0.4	0.7	-0.7
Commodity and service group
All items		332.572	332.956	332.357	3.2	-0.1	-0.2
Commodities		220.459	219.639	217.773	-0.4	-1.2	-0.8
Commodities less food & beverages		162.528	161.133	158.871	-2.4	-2.3	-1.4
Nondurables less food & beverages		231.787	229.122	222.781	-1.7	-3.9	-2.8
Durables		100.254	99.770	100.109	-3.4	-0.1	0.3
Services		432.386	433.914	434.542	5.1	0.5	0.1
Special aggregate indexes
All items less medical care		321.901	322.161	321.292	3.1	-0.2	-0.3
All items less shelter		286.310	286.127	284.481	1.8	-0.6	-0.6
Commodities less food		167.762	166.396	164.135	-2.4	-2.2	-1.4
Nondurables		285.776	284.811	281.339	0.8	-1.6	-1.2
Nondurables less food		237.869	235.364	229.262	-1.7	-3.6	-2.6
Services less rent of shelter(3)		437.676	439.147	438.195	4.8	0.1	-0.2
Services less medical care services		417.923	419.464	419.824	5.1	0.5	0.1
Energy		408.314	404.015	384.090	-1.2	-5.9	-4.9
All items less energy		330.275	330.905	331.310	3.5	0.3	0.1
All items less food and energy		328.694	329.313	329.903	3.6	0.4	0.2
Footnotes (1) Indexes on a December 1977=100 base. (2) This index series was calculated using a Laspeyres estimator. All other item stratum index series were calculated using a geometric means estimator. (3) Indexes on a December 1982=100 base. (4) Special index based on a substantially smaller sample. (5) Indexes on a December 1993=100 base. (6) Indexes on a December 1997=100 base.
- Data not available NOTE: Index applies to a month as a whole, not to any specific date.