Table 6. Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W): Selected areas, all items index
Table 6. Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W): Selected areas, all items index
(1982-84=100, unless otherwise noted)
All items
Indexes Percent change to Percent change to
CPI-W Pricing Oct. 2009 from-- Sep. 2009 from--
schedule
(1) July Aug. Sep. Oct.
2009 2009 2009 2009 Oct. Aug. Sep. Sep. July Aug.
2008 2009 2009 2008 2009 2009
U.S. city average........................... M 210.526 211.156 211.322 211.549 -0.3 0.2 0.1 -1.7 0.4 0.1
Region and area size(2)
Northeast urban............................. M 226.714 227.598 228.158 228.193 0.2 0.3 0.0 -0.8 0.6 0.2
Size A - More than 1,500,000.............. M 227.550 228.472 229.067 228.720 0.1 0.1 -0.2 -0.7 0.7 0.3
Size B/C - 50,000 to 1,500,000 (3)........ M 136.626 137.109 137.400 137.959 0.3 0.6 0.4 -1.1 0.6 0.2
Midwest urban............................... M 199.824 200.723 200.658 200.781 -0.2 0.0 0.1 -2.1 0.4 0.0
Size A - More than 1,500,000.............. M 199.611 200.710 200.566 200.730 -0.3 0.0 0.1 -2.2 0.5 -0.1
Size B/C - 50,000 to 1,500,000 (3)........ M 131.096 131.481 131.497 131.420 -0.2 0.0 -0.1 -2.0 0.3 0.0
Size D - Nonmetropolitan (less than
50,000)............................... M 198.455 199.404 199.416 200.053 0.0 0.3 0.3 -2.3 0.5 0.0
South urban................................. M 205.415 205.867 205.726 206.121 -0.6 0.1 0.2 -2.3 0.2 -0.1
Size A - More than 1,500,000.............. M 208.492 208.995 208.677 208.577 -1.0 -0.2 0.0 -2.3 0.1 -0.2
Size B/C - 50,000 to 1,500,000 (3)........ M 131.063 131.302 131.284 131.621 -0.3 0.2 0.3 -2.2 0.2 0.0
Size D - Nonmetropolitan (less than
50,000)............................... M 210.341 211.088 210.922 212.368 -0.6 0.6 0.7 -2.7 0.3 -0.1
West urban.................................. M 213.541 213.988 214.490 214.718 -0.4 0.3 0.1 -1.2 0.4 0.2
Size A - More than 1,500,000.............. M 215.955 216.539 217.000 217.002 -0.3 0.2 0.0 -1.0 0.5 0.2
Size B/C - 50,000 to 1,500,000 (3)........ M 132.314 132.407 132.773 133.244 -0.3 0.6 0.4 -1.6 0.3 0.3
Size classes
A (4)..................................... M 195.096 195.796 195.957 195.895 -0.4 0.1 0.0 -1.5 0.4 0.1
B/C (3)................................... M 132.069 132.341 132.450 132.764 -0.2 0.3 0.2 -1.9 0.3 0.1
D......................................... M 205.504 206.271 206.341 207.120 -0.4 0.4 0.4 -2.1 0.4 0.0
Selected local areas(5)
Chicago-Gary-Kenosha, IL-IN-WI.............. M 203.554 204.246 204.278 204.511 -1.1 0.1 0.1 -2.3 0.4 0.0
Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange County, CA..... M 216.128 216.628 217.302 217.474 -0.6 0.4 0.1 -1.4 0.5 0.3
New York-Northern N.J.-Long Island,
NY-NJ-CT-PA............................. M 232.177 232.841 233.502 233.084 0.1 0.1 -0.2 -0.5 0.6 0.3
Boston-Brockton-Nashua, MA-NH-ME-CT......... 1 232.535 - 235.744 - - - - -1.0 1.4 -
Cleveland-Akron, OH......................... 1 191.494 - 192.800 - - - - -2.3 0.7 -
Dallas-Fort Worth, TX....................... 1 203.075 - 204.298 - - - - -2.6 0.6 -
Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV (6)....... 1 140.434 - 140.701 - - - - -0.7 0.2 -
Atlanta, GA................................. 2 - 202.276 - 199.736 -2.7 -1.3 - - - -
Detroit-Ann Arbor-Flint, MI................. 2 - 200.169 - 200.324 -0.1 0.1 - - - -
Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX.............. 2 - 189.503 - 189.304 -0.7 -0.1 - - - -
Miami-Fort Lauderdale, FL................... 2 - 219.000 - 220.358 -0.8 0.6 - - - -
Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City,
PA-NJ-DE-MD............................. 2 - 225.481 - 224.573 -0.2 -0.4 - - - -
San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA.......... 2 - 221.279 - 221.708 0.2 0.2 - - - -
Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA................ 2 - 221.873 - 221.339 0.3 -0.2 - - - -
1 Areas on pricing schedule 2 (see Table 10) will appear next month.
2 Regions defined as the four Census regions. See technical notes.
3 Indexes on a December 1996=100 base.
4 Indexes on a December 1986=100 base.
5 In addition, the following metropolitan areas are published semiannually and appear in Tables 34 and 39 of the January and
July issues of the CPI Detailed Report: Anchorage, AK; Cincinnati-Hamilton, OH-KY-IN; Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO; Honolulu, HI;
Kansas City, MO-KS; Milwaukee-Racine, WI; Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI; Phoenix-Mesa, AZ; Pittsburgh, PA; Portland-Salem, OR-WA;
St. Louis, MO-IL; San Diego, CA; Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL.
6 Indexes on a November 1996=100 base.
- Data not available.
NOTE: Index applies to a month as a whole, not to any specific date.
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