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Consumer Price Index Overview Table – Mid-Atlantic

 
Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, all items, in the U.S., Northeast, and South, and selected metropolitan areas, not seasonally adjusted
(1982-84=100 unless otherwise noted)
Area

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data		 Annual
average
2018		 Jul
2019		 Aug
2019		 Percent change
Annual
average
2017 to
2018		 12 months
ended
Jul
2019		 Aug
2019

U.S. City Average

 251.107 256.571 256.558 2.4 1.8 1.7

Northeast region(1)

 265.139 270.381 270.548 2.2 1.7 1.5

Northeast City Size Class (population)

A (over 2.5 million)

 268.112 273.632 274.118 2.0 1.9 1.9

B/C (2.5 million or less)(2)

 156.258 159.182 159.041 2.5 1.5 1.1

South region(3)

 242.737 247.250 246.953 2.2 1.4 1.4

South City Size Class (population)

A (over 2.5 million)

 246.970 251.878 251.959 2.5 1.5 1.6

B/C (2.5 million or less)(2)

 153.447 156.192 155.873 2.1 1.4 1.2

Metropolitan areas

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD(4)

 251.563   258.877 1.3   2.3

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV(4)(5)

 261.445 265.170   2.0 1.2  

Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD(4)(5)

 253.392   257.455 1.9   1.1

Footnotes
(1) The Northeast region includes Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
(2) December 1996=100.
(3) The South region includes Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia.
(4) Published in alternate months.
(5) 1998-2017 indexes based on a substantially smaller sample.

Source: Consumer Price Index
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) measures changes in prices of all goods and services purchased for consumption by urban households.