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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
Oct
2023		 Percent change from
Oct
2022		 Oct
2023		 Percent change from
Oct
2022		 Oct
2023		 Percent change from
Oct
2022		 Oct
2023		 Percent change from
Oct
2022		 Oct
2023		 Percent change from
Oct
2022		 Oct
2023		 Percent change from
Oct
2022

All items

 307.671 3.2 306.276 3.5     307.284 2.2 316.300 2.7 299.394 3.7

All items (1967 = 100)(2)

 921.645   884.814       919.060   498.076   485.659  

Food and beverages

 323.262 3.3 295.513 2.6     326.809 2.3 326.008 3.2 318.300 3.4

Food

 325.731 3.3 298.064 2.6     326.807 2.2 328.271 3.1 322.091 3.4

Food at home

 304.788 2.1 303.087 1.4 289.822 -0.8 289.920 0.4 308.342 2.1 302.858 2.1

Cereals and bakery products

 355.752 4.2 418.128 2.9 372.690 -1.5 357.048 0.8 386.634 3.6 362.899 4.0

Meats, poultry, fish, and eggs

 322.536 0.4 332.292 -2.4 310.478 -3.1 292.503 -1.3 308.970 -0.9 316.902 0.6

Dairy and related products

 268.326 -0.4 238.582 2.4 279.245 -4.6 282.852 1.5 279.994 0.6 267.515 -1.2

Fruits and vegetables

 351.952 1.1 301.286 0.0 302.679 0.5 315.620 -2.4 362.625 2.0 333.060 0.4

Nonalcoholic beverages and beverage materials(3)

 216.952 3.3 204.871 4.1 248.401 -2.3 223.751 3.3 215.927 4.2 214.617 3.6

Other food at home

 272.215 3.6 292.343 2.3 250.294 2.9 269.291 2.4 280.625 3.4 273.737 3.9

Food away from home

 358.824 5.4 282.847 4.6     377.704 5.5 362.775 5.1 354.065 5.7

Alcoholic beverages

 288.303 3.7 256.560 2.4     322.955 4.6 294.792 3.9 265.479 3.2

Housing

 323.964 5.2 325.692 5.5     309.799 4.4 339.349 4.1 304.236 5.9

Shelter

 386.435 6.7 401.411 6.9 383.516 6.0 362.656 5.1 417.687 6.3 354.228 7.7

Rent of primary residence

 406.683 7.2 376.732 7.6 411.519 4.1 420.344 6.6 421.432 6.7 379.497 8.3

Owners' equivalent rent of residences(4)

 396.881 6.8 412.357 7.4 394.580 6.4 381.739 5.2 433.092 6.6 356.549 7.8

Owners' equivalent rent of primary residence(4)

 396.945 6.8 412.357 7.4 394.580 6.4 381.739 5.2 432.688 6.6 356.528 7.8

Fuels and utilities

 304.885 -1.3 268.105 -5.1     313.915 9.0 286.199 -8.3 294.315 -0.6

Household energy

 255.594 -3.2 220.542 -6.6 234.906 -3.7 278.542 9.0 254.205 -10.4 240.088 -2.2

Energy services

 258.236 -2.3 227.590 -1.4 239.992 -3.6 298.264 11.0 243.595 -8.0 239.861 -2.0

Electricity

 268.342 2.4 227.542 5.4 272.637 5.9 284.251 13.6 256.473 -0.6 236.513 0.3

Utility (piped) gas service

 222.955 -15.8 210.862 -14.4 158.473 -27.0 205.814 -17.0 201.952 -21.6 242.357 -14.9

Household furnishings and operations

 148.558 1.7 145.579 6.0     135.672 -4.2 143.340 1.6 148.912 1.2

Apparel

 132.786 2.6 112.500 1.7     135.165 1.8 135.288 2.5 143.513 3.2

Transportation

 270.027 0.8 269.873 2.2     271.413 -2.3 263.135 3.4 269.936 1.5

Private transportation

 269.920 1.2 280.222 3.4     277.569 -2.3 262.200 3.8 272.437 1.9

New and used motor vehicles(5)

 126.347 -1.7 134.377 1.3     138.090 -1.2 126.272 -0.6 128.522 -1.8

New vehicles(3)

 179.446 1.9 239.277 2.5     280.060 1.2 175.536 2.4 187.380 1.6

Used cars and trucks(3)

 184.961 -7.1 346.752 -6.7     324.583 -6.7 196.510 -6.8 184.887 -7.4

Motor fuel

 322.975 -5.6 332.882 -3.6 335.194 -2.8 295.506 -8.2 313.683 1.1 286.702 -3.8

Gasoline

 320.999 -5.3 328.534 -3.6 330.396 -2.8 287.874 -8.1 312.856 1.5 284.355 -3.5

Motor vehicle insurance(3)

 759.704 19.2                    

Medical care

 549.762 -0.8 587.828 -2.2     500.665 1.2 548.512 -5.4 520.015 -0.8

Recreation(5)

 136.726 3.2 132.016 -0.5     142.146 1.9 141.088 2.4 136.498 3.3

Education and communication(5)

 145.295 0.9 138.597 2.4     161.757 0.9 154.955 0.9 140.500 1.2

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

 847.031 2.9 1,158.191 4.5     1,368.306 4.0 1,414.154 2.9 1,489.781 3.6

Other goods and services

 546.825 6.2 685.933 10.7     526.932 5.9 598.691 5.0 518.550 5.2

Energy

 286.754 -4.5 262.626 -5.4 285.575 -3.2 296.321 0.6 278.447 -5.8 256.235 -3.5

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. 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
Oct
2023		 Percent change from
Oct
2022		 Oct
2023		 Percent change from
Oct
2022		 Oct
2023		 Percent change from
Oct
2022		 Oct
2023		 Percent change from
Oct
2022		 Oct
2023		 Percent change from
Oct
2022		 Oct
2023		 Percent change from
Oct
2022

All items

 302.071 3.1 307.523 3.4     302.492 2.3 314.057 2.7 294.801 3.5

All items (1967 = 100)(2)

 899.779   893.252       901.736   490.540   477.463  

Food and beverages

 322.903 3.5 304.205 3.3     324.061 2.9 324.701 3.2 317.795 3.5

Food

 324.415 3.4 305.496 3.2     323.836 2.6 326.449 3.2 320.351 3.5

Food at home

 304.522 2.1 312.770 1.5 286.623 -1.1 292.952 0.2 307.897 2.0 301.103 2.1

Cereals and bakery products

 357.857 4.2 427.331 3.3 352.827 -2.5 344.358 0.1 385.364 3.8 363.364 4.1

Meats, poultry, fish, and eggs

 323.313 0.5 341.352 -0.1 305.307 -2.9 304.922 -1.7 307.408 -1.5 315.140 0.6

Dairy and related products

 266.036 -0.5 239.434 1.8 274.502 -4.8 262.796 2.1 278.750 0.4 262.744 -1.2

Fruits and vegetables

 348.865 1.0 286.429 -5.9 308.479 0.5 328.554 -0.5 364.279 2.0 331.358 0.0

Nonalcoholic beverages and beverage materials(3)

 217.641 3.6 220.349 5.8 261.047 -1.7 224.568 3.0 217.613 4.3 213.895 4.1

Other food at home

 271.560 3.6 300.128 2.5 246.057 3.5 252.236 1.1 282.185 3.6 271.826 4.0

Food away from home

 359.593 5.5 285.965 5.3     375.456 5.2 363.951 5.5 353.530 5.8

Alcoholic beverages

 295.832 4.5 272.522 3.9     328.895 7.9 294.662 4.3 275.572 3.3

Housing

 320.321 5.2 326.020 5.4     319.999 5.2 338.939 4.1 305.278 5.9

Shelter

 378.889 6.8 408.222 7.2 380.852 5.2 376.959 5.2 413.371 6.5 356.399 7.8

Rent of primary residence

 404.569 7.3 376.732 7.6 411.519 4.1 420.344 6.6 415.776 6.8 377.172 8.4

Owners' equivalent rent of residences(4)

 358.098 6.8 366.717 7.4 359.620 6.4 346.274 5.2 380.819 6.5 331.290 7.7

Owners' equivalent rent of primary residence(4)

 358.116 6.8 366.717 7.4 359.620 6.4 346.274 5.2 380.875 6.5 331.258 7.7

Fuels and utilities

 302.368 -1.2 263.974 -5.9     302.840 10.0 286.069 -8.2 294.895 -0.7

Household energy

 253.145 -3.0 219.039 -7.1 238.222 -3.3 265.608 10.0 254.079 -10.3 238.587 -2.4

Energy services

 256.898 -2.3 229.187 -1.7 246.953 -2.1 294.557 10.2 245.170 -8.1 239.985 -2.3

Electricity

 264.998 2.1 227.541 5.4 272.637 5.9 284.249 13.6 257.920 -0.6 233.283 -0.8

Utility (piped) gas service

 221.500 -17.0 210.858 -14.4 158.474 -27.0 205.814 -17.0 204.840 -21.0 251.260 -13.8

Household furnishings and operations

 142.062 1.7 138.508 9.0     122.599 0.0 139.577 2.5 139.383 2.3

Apparel

 132.788 2.8 119.522 -1.7     138.725 2.2 135.674 2.8 142.935 3.1

Transportation

 275.026 1.1 287.647 2.2     258.780 -1.9 268.451 3.6 269.650 1.9

Private transportation

 274.385 1.5 294.596 2.8     262.656 -1.8 266.141 3.8 270.529 2.2

New and used motor vehicles(5)

 125.866 -2.2 136.451 -0.1     133.031 -1.9 124.623 -1.9 124.808 -2.6

New vehicles(3)

 179.517 1.8 248.986 2.5     273.150 1.2 172.903 2.2 184.575 1.6

Used cars and trucks(3)

 186.229 -7.1 346.737 -6.7     324.601 -6.7 196.464 -6.7 186.352 -7.3

Motor fuel

 323.759 -5.8 333.683 -3.6 331.637 -3.6 298.933 -8.0 312.311 0.7 285.593 -3.7

Gasoline

 322.180 -5.5 328.533 -3.6 330.397 -2.8 287.888 -8.1 312.136 1.4 283.846 -3.3

Motor vehicle insurance(3)

 768.215 19.7                    

Medical care

 556.613 -1.2 578.043 -2.3     502.652 0.8 538.335 -7.5 534.194 -0.8

Recreation(5)

 129.744 2.5 131.113 3.1     123.495 0.1 143.219 3.1 129.012 2.3

Education and communication(5)

 130.256 0.4 125.677 1.6     145.196 0.4 138.842 0.5 122.189 0.2

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

 810.074 3.0 1,109.506 4.7     1,329.230 3.9 1,408.447 3.0 1,350.452 3.7

Other goods and services

 602.208 5.9 718.086 3.0     698.953 7.8 696.137 5.0 563.970 4.7

Energy

 286.777 -4.6 260.299 -5.4 291.469 -3.6 284.035 1.0 279.024 -5.3 255.499 -3.4

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
Oct 2023 from --
Sep
2023		 Oct
2023		 Oct
2022		 Aug
2023		 Sep
2023

U.S. city average

 307.789 307.671 3.2 0.2 0.0

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI

 284.375 285.211 2.4 0.4 0.3

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA

 324.984 324.545 2.4 0.2 -0.1

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

 325.613 325.288 3.5 0.3 -0.1

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH

 327.145        

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX

 291.001        

Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO

 324.704        

Minneapolis-St.Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI

 296.730        

Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA(1)

 131.372        

San Diego-Carlsbad, CA

 367.185        

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

 296.146        

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

 309.254        

Urban Hawaii

 328.905        

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA

   306.435 3.2 -0.6  

Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD(3)

   307.284 2.2 -0.2  

Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI

   283.874 3.4 -1.3  

Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX

   270.329 3.0 -0.3  

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL

   341.180 7.4 0.5  

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

   306.276 3.5 0.2  

Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ(4)

   181.391 2.9 0.6  

San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA

   341.219 2.8 0.3  

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA

   345.992 4.8 0.4  

St. Louis, MO-IL

   277.471 3.1 0.0  

Urban Alaska

   263.984 1.1 0.2  

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
Oct 2023 from --
Sep
2023		 Oct
2023		 Oct
2022		 Aug
2023		 Sep
2023

U.S. city average

 302.257 302.071 3.1 0.2 -0.1

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI

 275.642 276.187 2.1 0.2 0.2

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA

 313.451 313.122 1.8 0.2 -0.1

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

 319.955 320.196 3.7 0.6 0.1

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH

 330.195        

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX

 301.057        

Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO

 318.673        

Minneapolis-St.Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI

 293.676        

Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA(1)

 131.946        

San Diego-Carlsbad, CA

 349.402        

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

 293.666        

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

 304.941        

Urban Hawaii

 327.946        

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA

   300.031 3.5 -0.8  

Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD(3)

   302.492 2.3 -0.4  

Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI

   278.806 2.3 -0.6  

Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX

   266.614 3.5 -0.4  

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL

   336.359 7.6 0.4  

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

   307.523 3.4 0.0  

Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ(4)

   181.521 2.7 0.6  

San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA

   337.698 2.5 0.3  

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA

   340.263 4.4 0.4  

St. Louis, MO-IL

   275.942 3.0 0.0  

Urban Alaska

   261.285 0.1 0.0  

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