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22-2314-DAL
Tuesday, December 13, 2022

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Consumer Price Index, Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington area – November 2022

Area prices rose 0.3 percent in October and November, up 8.4 percent over the year.

Prices in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington area, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), increased 0.3 percent for the two months ending in November 2022, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Michael Hirniak noted that the all items less food and energy index advanced 1.0 percent in October and November, largely due to an increase in the shelter category. The food index rose 0.3 percent, while the energy index fell 6.2 percent over the past two months. (Data in this report are not seasonally adjusted. Accordingly, bi-monthly changes may reflect seasonal influences.)

Over the last 12 months, the CPI-U increased 8.4 percent. The index for all items less food and energy advanced 7.6 percent over the year, the largest 12-month increase since the index began in 1983. Food prices rose 14.1 percent during the same period. Energy prices increased 8.8 percent, mainly the result of an increase in the price of electricity. (See chart 1 and  table 1.)

Food

Food prices rose 0.3 percent for the two months ending in November. Prices for food away from home increased, while prices for food at home decreased 0.2 percent for the same period. Within the food at home category, declines in the index for meats, poultry, fish, and eggs (-2.0 percent) outweighed increases in the indexes for fruits and vegetables (+1.5 percent) and other food at home (+0.8 percent).

Over the year, food prices rose 14.1 percent. Prices for food at home increased 15.3 percent since a year ago, with all six major grocery store food group indexes contributing to the rise. The other food at home index (which includes sugar, sweets, fats, and oils) contributed most to the increase at 18.0 percent. The category for food away from home also contributed to the rise in the food index.

Energy

The energy index declined 6.2 percent in October and November. The decrease was mainly due to lower prices for electricity (-7.7 percent), but all energy categories contributed. Prices for gasoline declined 4.5 percent, and prices for natural gas service fell 9.1 percent over the two-month period.

From November 2021 to November 2022, energy prices increased 8.8 percent, largely due to higher prices for electricity (+20.2 percent), but the index for natural gas service advanced 12.2 percent as well. The index for gasoline decreased 1.5 percent during the past year, the first over-the-year decline since January 2021.

All items less food and energy

The index for all items less food and energy advanced 1.0 percent in the latest two-month period, after rising 1.5 percent in the previous period. The top components contributing to the rise all came from within the index for shelter: owners’ equivalent rent of residences (+2.2 percent), rent of primary residence (+2.4 percent), and lodging away from home. These increases were partially offset by lower prices for used cars and trucks (-5.3 percent), public transportation, and medical care services.

Over the year, the index for all items less food and energy rose 7.6 percent. An increase to the index for shelter (+10.2 percent), the largest 12-month increase since the period ending in October 1981, drove over half of the rise within the all items less food and energy index. The indexes for household furnishings and operations (+8.4 percent), and medical care services also had notable increases over the year.

The January 2023 Consumer Price Index for the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington area is scheduled to be released on Tuesday, February 14, 2023.


Technical Note

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure 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 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas, Core Based Statistical Area includes the counties of Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Hood, Hunt, Johnson, Kaufman, Parker, Rockwall, Somervell, Tarrant, and Wise.

Information in this release will be made available to sensory impaired individuals upon request. Voice phone: (202) 691-5200; Telecommunications Relay Service: 7-1-1.

Table 1. Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U): Indexes and percent changes for selected periods,
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX, November 2022 (1982-84=100 unless otherwise noted)
Item and Group Indexes Percent change from -
Sep.
2022
Oct.
2022
Nov.
2022
Nov.
2021
Sep.
2022
Oct.
2022

All items

278.297 - 279.000 8.4 0.3 -

All items (1967 = 100)

873.002 - 875.209      

Food and beverages

314.586 - 315.722 13.7 0.4 -

Food

309.825 - 310.771 14.1 0.3 -

Food at home

265.951 263.945 265.351 15.3 -0.2 0.5

Cereals and bakery products

305.384 - 302.510 10.8 -0.9 -

Meats, poultry, fish, and eggs

322.263 - 315.680 10.4 -2.0 -

Dairy and related products

231.714 - 229.661 13.6 -0.9 -

Fruits and vegetables

230.784 - 234.163 22.1 1.5 -

Nonalcoholic beverages and beverage materials(1)

224.768 - 224.053 15.1 -0.3 -

Other food at home

256.663 - 258.681 18.0 0.8 -

Food away from home

374.636 - - - - -

Alcoholic beverages

371.484 - 375.890 8.2 1.2 -

Housing

276.995 - 280.344 10.6 1.2 -

Shelter

303.312 306.991 310.510 10.2 2.4 1.1

Rent of primary residence

330.192 333.473 338.266 11.8 2.4 1.4

Owners' equivalent rent of residences(2)

325.239 328.967 332.235 8.6 2.2 1.0

Owners' equivalent rent of primary residence(2)

325.239 328.967 332.235 8.6 2.2 1.0

Fuels and utilities

345.991 - 327.988 14.9 -5.2 -

Household energy

336.048 338.534 310.256 18.9 -7.7 -8.4

Energy services

331.715 334.088 305.354 18.8 -7.9 -8.6

Electricity

310.933 311.228 286.947 20.2 -7.7 -7.8

Utility (piped) gas service

351.560 365.129 319.474 12.2 -9.1 -12.5

Household furnishings and operations

137.351 - 138.687 8.4 1.0 -

Apparel

117.128 - 116.620 4.5 -0.4 -

Transportation

258.138 - 252.238 7.5 -2.3 -

Private transportation

262.579 - 258.008 6.1 -1.7 -

New and used motor vehicles(3)

136.025 - 134.237 5.6 -1.3 -

New vehicles(1)

224.554 - 224.626 4.8 0.0 -

Used cars and trucks(1)

479.284 - 454.102 -2.8 -5.3 -

Motor fuel

299.797 302.705 286.555 -0.6 -4.4 -5.3

Gasoline (all types)

295.585 299.009 282.233 -1.5 -4.5 -5.6

Gasoline, unleaded regular(4)

284.487 288.027 271.551 -1.7 -4.5 -5.7

Gasoline, unleaded midgrade(4)(5)

313.843 315.905 299.457 -0.8 -4.6 -5.2

Gasoline, unleaded premium(4)

313.917 315.457 300.588 0.0 -4.2 -4.7

Medical care

505.119 - 499.063 4.8 -1.2 -

Recreation(3)

124.766 - 126.780 5.5 1.6 -

Education and communication(3)

131.754 - 133.205 -2.1 1.1 -

Tuition, other school fees, and childcare(1)

1,324.873 - 1,324.928 2.5 0.0 -

Other goods and services

483.670 - 484.898 0.9 0.3 -

Commodity and service group

Commodities

207.521 - 206.267 7.0 -0.6 -

Commodities less food and beverages

161.780 - 159.933 3.5 -1.1 -

Nondurables less food and beverages

201.139 - 198.597 4.2 -1.3 -

Durables

128.377 - 127.082 2.9 -1.0 -

Services

347.220 - 349.585 9.1 0.7 -

Special aggregate indexes

All items less shelter

267.470 - 264.898 7.4 -1.0 -

All items less medical care

267.200 - 268.235 8.7 0.4 -

Commodities less food

166.994 - 165.219 3.7 -1.1 -

Nondurables

252.086 - 251.014 9.0 -0.4 -

Nondurables less food

208.842 - 206.526 4.5 -1.1 -

Services less rent of shelter(2)

404.625 - 399.004 7.7 -1.4 -

Services less medical care services

329.278 - 332.361 9.7 0.9 -

Energy

319.720 322.423 299.967 8.8 -6.2 -7.0

All items less energy

279.907 - 282.445 8.3 0.9 -

All items less food and energy

275.468 - 278.198 7.6 1.0 -

(1) Indexes on a February 1978=100 base.
(2) Indexes on a December 1982=100 base.
(3) Indexes on a December 1997=100 base.
(4) Special index based on a substantially smaller sample.
(5) Index on a December 1993=100.

- Data not available.

 

Last Modified Date: Tuesday, December 13, 2022