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Bureau of Labor Statistics > Geographic Information > Mid-Atlantic > CPI Summary

Mid-Atlantic Consumer Price Index Card

Monthly and Bimonthly Indexes

Consumer Price Indexes for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. city averages and selected areas, not seasonally adjusted
(1982-84=100 unless otherwise noted)
Item U.S. city average Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington Washington-Arlington-Alexandria(1) Baltimore-Columbia-Towson(1) Northeast region South region
Apr
2024		 Percent change from
Apr
2023		 Apr
2024		 Percent change from
Apr
2023		 Apr
2024		 Percent change from
Apr
2023		 Apr
2024		 Percent change from
Apr
2023		 Apr
2024		 Percent change from
Apr
2023		 Apr
2024		 Percent change from
Apr
2023

All items

 313.548 3.4 313.505 4.1     314.927 2.9 323.035 3.6 305.104 3.3

All items (1967 = 100)(2)

 939.251   905.699       941.919   508.682   494.922  

Food and beverages

 326.107 2.2 300.471 2.3     334.322 2.2 328.442 2.0 320.988 2.0

Food

 328.678 2.2 303.369 2.5     334.533 2.2 331.143 2.1 324.728 2.0

Food at home

 305.707 1.1 309.060 1.5 291.525 0.4 295.231 1.2 309.571 0.9 303.540 0.9

Cereals and bakery products

 355.852 0.6 426.376 3.8 389.127 -1.1 356.107 0.6 389.766 1.3 364.077 0.5

Meats, poultry, fish, and eggs

 322.323 1.0 340.135 -0.5 308.659 -1.8 304.794 1.9 313.236 0.7 316.605 0.9

Dairy and related products

 267.474 -1.3 240.800 -1.5 287.268 -0.6 272.168 -3.1 276.738 -1.0 267.318 -1.7

Fruits and vegetables

 352.274 1.7 304.571 -0.8 294.039 -0.8 327.954 4.1 356.219 0.0 333.496 2.5

Nonalcoholic beverages and beverage materials(3)

 220.712 2.3 209.964 6.2 265.427 8.1 222.027 2.3 221.439 3.9 218.133 1.6

Other food at home

 273.306 1.4 299.262 2.0 247.500 1.0 275.533 -0.2 282.218 0.9 273.442 0.7

Food away from home

 365.813 4.1 287.000 4.1     389.064 3.6 369.423 4.6 360.513 3.9

Alcoholic beverages

 289.717 2.0 256.615 0.1     327.278 3.4 291.361 0.4 268.836 2.5

Housing

 331.688 4.5 333.401 5.2     315.437 3.6 349.128 4.7 310.689 4.6

Shelter

 397.539 5.5 412.179 6.1 391.724 4.8 370.629 4.6 430.231 5.8 364.032 5.8

Rent of primary residence

 416.386 5.4 388.598 7.2 420.172 3.4 428.090 4.9 431.822 5.5 389.000 5.8

Owners' equivalent rent of residences(4)

 407.538 5.8 423.814 6.8 402.068 5.6 389.615 4.4 445.161 6.1 365.904 6.0

Owners' equivalent rent of primary residence(4)

 407.588 5.7 423.814 6.8 402.068 5.6 389.615 4.4 444.709 6.1 365.896 6.0

Fuels and utilities

 311.410 3.8 274.132 2.3     316.699 6.1 296.553 1.5 297.549 3.6

Household energy

 260.399 3.3 226.828 2.7 220.292 0.6 281.950 5.9 264.545 1.3 241.649 3.2

Energy services

 264.252 3.6 236.728 2.9 224.280 0.5 304.068 6.5 259.200 1.4 241.555 3.3

Electricity

 276.653 5.1 241.144 7.0 253.755 3.8 286.657 5.5 271.038 3.0 238.698 4.1

Utility (piped) gas service

 221.729 -1.9 208.047 -7.0 150.358 -9.5 237.953 19.0 217.923 -2.4 240.550 -1.6

Household furnishings and operations

 147.173 -1.7 145.958 1.5     135.372 -5.3 145.132 0.4 146.345 -2.7

Apparel

 133.502 1.3 114.818 5.9     130.783 -2.3 135.494 0.8 144.797 2.9

Transportation

 276.687 3.5 278.646 5.3     288.677 5.0 267.790 4.5 277.571 3.0

Private transportation

 275.873 3.8 292.476 7.3     294.092 4.9 265.932 4.8 279.832 3.3

New and used motor vehicles(5)

 125.017 -2.6 133.731 0.3     135.678 -2.9 125.251 -0.7 126.471 -3.1

New vehicles(3)

 178.250 -0.4 238.993 0.6     276.662 -1.3 174.973 0.5 185.648 -0.7

Used cars and trucks(3)

 180.132 -6.9 339.717 -6.0     317.998 -6.0 192.122 -5.8 179.696 -7.4

Motor fuel

 323.189 1.0 327.702 -0.1 342.988 1.9 321.875 3.9 302.214 0.7 297.650 -0.8

Gasoline

 322.434 1.2 323.599 -0.1 338.079 1.9 314.762 4.0 301.658 0.8 296.536 -0.8

Motor vehicle insurance(3)

 839.077 22.6                    

Medical care

 561.612 2.6 595.658 -0.4     506.083 -2.1 572.201 2.1 529.696 2.0

Recreation(5)

 138.412 1.5 139.434 3.7     145.806 2.8 141.671 2.3 138.922 2.4

Education and communication(5)

 146.040 0.4 139.430 3.0     163.859 2.7 155.405 0.6 141.473 0.7

Tuition, other school fees, and child care(3)

 851.783 2.6 1,158.588 4.5     1,384.338 5.2 1,410.503 2.2 1,508.592 3.6

Other goods and services

 556.486 4.3 693.191 0.2     546.212 7.0 609.924 3.8 532.474 4.5

Energy

 290.760 2.6 265.436 1.6 279.846 1.4 312.155 5.6 280.986 1.2 263.563 1.7

Footnotes
(1) 1998-2017 indexes based on a substantially smaller sample.
(2) For the Northeast and the South, Dec. 1977=100.
(3) For Washington, Nov. 1977=100. For Baltimore, March 1978=100. For Philadelphia, December 1977=100.
(4) For the U.S., Philadelphia, Northeast, & South, Dec. 1982 = 100. For Washington & Baltimore, Nov. 1982=100.
(5) December 1997=100.

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD, CBSA includes Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia Counties in Pennsylvania; Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, and Salem Counties in New Jersey; New Castle County in Delaware; and Cecil County in Maryland.

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV, CBSA includes the District of Columbia; Calvert, Charles, Frederick, Montgomery, Prince George's in Maryland; Arlington, Clarke, Culpeper, Fairfax, Fauquier, Loudoun, Prince William, Rappahannock, Spotsylvania, Stafford, and Warren Counties, and Alexandria, Fairfax, Falls Church, Fredericksburg, Manassas, and Manassas Park Cities in Virginia; and Jefferson County in West Virginia.

Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD, CBSA includes Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Carroll, Harford, Howard, Queen Anne's Counties in Maryland.

Northeast region includes the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

South region includes the District of Columbia and the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.

 

Consumer Price Indexes for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W), U.S. city averages and selected areas, not seasonally adjusted
(1982-84=100 unless otherwise noted)
Item U.S. city average Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington Washington-Arlington-Alexandria(1) Baltimore-Columbia-Towson(1) Northeast region South region
Apr
2024		 Percent change from
Apr
2023		 Apr
2024		 Percent change from
Apr
2023		 Apr
2024		 Percent change from
Apr
2023		 Apr
2024		 Percent change from
Apr
2023		 Apr
2024		 Percent change from
Apr
2023		 Apr
2024		 Percent change from
Apr
2023

All items

 307.811 3.4 314.742 4.3     310.296 2.9 320.621 3.8 300.498 3.3

All items (1967 = 100)(2)

 916.874   914.220       925.002   500.793   486.691  

Food and beverages

 325.835 2.3 308.249 2.6     330.027 1.9 327.274 2.2 320.488 2.2

Food

 327.440 2.3 309.897 2.7     329.848 1.7 329.390 2.3 322.974 2.1

Food at home

 305.383 1.2 318.709 1.4 287.188 0.0 297.014 0.6 309.130 0.9 301.622 1.0

Cereals and bakery products

 357.489 0.4 435.054 2.5 363.941 -1.6 340.728 -1.2 388.912 1.1 363.124 0.4

Meats, poultry, fish, and eggs

 323.115 1.2 347.699 0.4 302.290 -2.5 317.619 3.3 312.595 0.8 314.542 0.9

Dairy and related products

 265.833 -1.0 242.326 -1.5 279.746 -1.5 255.149 -2.3 277.764 0.1 263.579 -1.2

Fruits and vegetables

 348.477 1.6 291.713 0.4 301.446 -0.5 337.091 2.2 356.898 0.0 330.608 2.3

Nonalcoholic beverages and beverage materials(3)

 220.892 2.0 217.849 2.2 274.736 6.2 227.961 4.2 220.828 2.6 217.192 1.6

Other food at home

 272.926 1.5 307.842 1.4 244.543 2.6 256.598 -1.8 284.103 1.3 272.026 0.9

Food away from home

 366.923 4.3 288.907 4.2     384.865 3.1 370.766 4.8 359.918 3.9

Alcoholic beverages

 296.966 2.1 271.422 0.5     334.677 5.0 289.246 0.0 279.745 3.0

Housing

 327.834 4.6 333.871 5.5     326.950 4.2 348.606 4.8 311.946 4.7

Shelter

 389.565 5.6 420.164 6.7 389.078 4.3 385.229 4.5 425.493 5.9 366.346 5.8

Rent of primary residence

 414.434 5.5 388.598 7.2 420.172 3.4 428.090 4.9 426.121 5.5 386.910 5.9

Owners' equivalent rent of residences(4)

 367.818 5.7 376.906 6.8 366.444 5.6 353.418 4.4 391.565 6.1 340.134 5.9

Owners' equivalent rent of primary residence(4)

 367.838 5.7 376.906 6.8 366.444 5.6 353.418 4.4 391.586 6.1 340.107 5.9

Fuels and utilities

 309.032 4.0 268.729 1.4     307.543 6.8 297.111 1.6 298.252 3.8

Household energy

 258.123 3.6 224.720 2.0 223.565 0.7 270.978 6.6 265.150 1.4 240.123 3.4

Energy services

 262.640 3.8 236.660 2.0 230.645 0.8 300.948 6.7 259.818 1.7 241.620 3.5

Electricity

 273.063 5.3 241.142 7.0 253.755 3.8 286.655 5.5 272.460 3.8 235.302 3.9

Utility (piped) gas service

 218.814 -2.3 208.043 -7.0 150.359 -9.5 237.953 19.0 217.262 -3.3 249.503 0.6

Household furnishings and operations

 140.463 -1.7 139.998 4.3     126.269 -0.3 140.988 0.2 137.550 -1.7

Apparel

 133.856 1.4 126.864 5.9     133.785 -2.2 136.995 1.8 144.384 2.8

Transportation

 282.156 3.9 298.784 5.8     271.273 3.0 274.481 5.5 276.950 2.9

Private transportation

 281.233 4.2 308.588 7.3     275.411 3.2 271.638 5.7 277.829 3.3

New and used motor vehicles(5)

 124.244 -3.1 135.349 -0.6     130.795 -3.8 123.577 -1.4 122.373 -3.6

New vehicles(3)

 178.166 -0.6 248.690 0.6     269.836 -1.3 172.365 0.4 182.873 -0.7

Used cars and trucks(3)

 181.309 -6.9 339.702 -6.0     318.015 -6.0 191.937 -5.9 181.042 -7.4

Motor fuel

 325.115 1.0 328.655 -0.1 339.609 2.1 326.417 4.2 301.569 0.6 296.888 -1.0

Gasoline

 324.366 1.2 323.599 -0.1 338.081 1.9 314.777 4.0 301.228 0.7 296.251 -0.9

Motor vehicle insurance(3)

 850.137 23.0                    

Medical care

 568.649 2.6 584.775 -0.7     509.968 -2.1 562.966 2.3 545.912 2.4

Recreation(5)

 130.842 0.7 137.191 5.6     125.966 2.5 142.528 2.2 131.300 1.8

Education and communication(5)

 130.945 -0.2 125.319 0.8     146.825 2.1 139.319 0.0 123.183 -0.1

Tuition, other school fees, and child care(3)

 816.296 2.6 1,109.528 4.7     1,338.881 4.7 1,402.952 2.3 1,374.107 3.5

Other goods and services

 614.523 4.6 736.445 3.3     721.236 6.8 708.225 4.3 578.023 4.1

Energy

 290.951 2.5 262.268 1.1 290.871 2.9 303.123 6.2 280.920 1.1 263.205 1.5

Footnotes
(1) 1998-2017 indexes based on a substantially smaller sample.
(2) For the Northeast and the South, Dec. 1977=100.
(3) For Washington, Nov. 1977=100. For Baltimore, March 1978=100. For Philadelphia, December 1977=100.
(4) For the U.S., Philadelphia, Northeast, & South, Dec. 1982 = 100. For Washington & Baltimore, Nov. 1984=100.
(5) December 1997=100.

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD, CBSA includes Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia Counties in Pennsylvania; Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, and Salem Counties in New Jersey; New Castle County in Delaware; and Cecil County in Maryland.

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV, CBSA includes the District of Columbia; Calvert, Charles, Frederick, Montgomery, Prince George's in Maryland; Arlington, Clarke, Culpeper, Fairfax, Fauquier, Loudoun, Prince William, Rappahannock, Spotsylvania, Stafford, and Warren Counties, and Alexandria, Fairfax, Falls Church, Fredericksburg, Manassas, and Manassas Park Cities in Virginia; and Jefferson County in West Virginia.

Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD, CBSA includes Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Carroll, Harford, Howard, Queen Anne's Counties in Maryland.

Northeast region includes the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

South region includes the District of Columbia and the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.

 

Consumer Price Indexes and percent changes for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), all items, U.S. city averages and selected areas, not seasonally adjusted
(1982-84=100 unless otherwise noted)
Area Index Percent change to
Apr 2024 from --
Mar
2024		 Apr
2024		 Apr
2023		 Feb
2024		 Mar
2024

U.S. city average

 312.332 313.548 3.4 1.0 0.4

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI

 289.069 290.918 3.0 1.2 0.6

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA

 330.671 332.572 3.9 1.3 0.6

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA

 329.829 331.270 3.8 0.8 0.4

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH

 335.599        

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX

 298.719        

Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO

 325.485        

Minneapolis-St.Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI

 297.769        

Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA(1)

 133.144        

San Diego-Carlsbad, CA

 370.858        

Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL(2)

 299.030        

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV(3)

 313.108        

Urban Hawaii

 338.060        

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA

   310.836 3.1 0.3  

Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD(3)

   314.927 2.9 1.0  

Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI

   292.312 3.5 2.8  

Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX

   274.834 2.9 0.8  

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL

   348.439 4.5 1.0  

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD

   313.505 4.1 0.7  

Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ(4)

   184.462 2.6 1.9  

San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA

   351.247 3.8 1.8  

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA

   353.503 4.4 1.2  

St. Louis, MO-IL

   284.091 4.0 1.0  

Urban Alaska

   267.046 3.2 2.2  

Footnotes
(1) December 2017=100.
(2) 1987=100.
(3) 1998-2017 indexes based on a substantially smaller sample.
(4) December 2001=100.

 

Consumer Price Indexes and percent changes for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W), all items, U.S. city averages and selected areas, not seasonally adjusted
(1982-84=100 unless otherwise noted)
Area Index Percent change to
Apr 2024 from --
Mar
2024		 Apr
2024		 Apr
2023		 Feb
2024		 Mar
2024

U.S. city average

 306.502 307.811 3.4 1.2 0.4

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI

 281.252 283.067 3.5 1.4 0.6

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA

 318.280 320.458 3.9 1.5 0.7

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA

 324.298 325.774 4.0 0.8 0.5

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH

 336.088        

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX

 308.737        

Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO

 318.479        

Minneapolis-St.Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI

 294.621        

Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA(1)

 134.144        

San Diego-Carlsbad, CA

 351.778        

Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL(2)

 295.163        

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV(3)

 308.636        

Urban Hawaii

 337.685        

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA

   304.022 3.2 0.5  

Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD(3)

   310.296 2.9 1.6  

Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI

   286.994 2.6 2.6  

Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX

   270.846 3.1 0.7  

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL

   344.273 4.9 1.1  

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD

   314.742 4.3 1.0  

Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ(4)

   184.141 2.4 1.8  

San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA

   346.671 4.0 1.5  

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA

   347.039 4.5 1.4  

St. Louis, MO-IL

   282.836 4.3 1.1  

Urban Alaska

   263.875 2.9 1.8  

Footnotes
(1) December 2017=100.
(2) 1987=100.
(3) 1998-2017 indexes based on a substantially smaller sample.
(4) December 2001=100.