Latest reading, ranked
Core Inflation, Category by Category
Change in consumer prices from a year earlier, the 11 major categories of core CPI, latest month, %
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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted: each bar is the change in the category’s index from the same month a year earlier, the figure BLS publishes. Core is all items less food and energy; goods categories are drawn in purple, services in teal. Shelter is about a third of the whole index, so it moves core more than any other category.
Which parts of core inflation are running hot and which are falling. Bars to the right of zero are prices rising over the year; bars to the left are prices lower than a year ago, most often in goods such as used cars, apparel or furniture.
What this chart reads·12 series
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- CPI-U: All items less food and energy (U.S., not seasonally adjusted)as “All items less food and energy”latest 2026-09-01
- CPI-U: Household furnishings and supplies (U.S., not seasonally adjusted)as “Household furnishings and supplies”latest 2026-09-01
- CPI-U: Apparel (U.S., not seasonally adjusted)as “Apparel”latest 2026-09-01
- CPI-U: New vehicles (U.S., not seasonally adjusted)as “New vehicles”latest 2026-09-01
- CPI-U: Used cars and trucks (U.S., not seasonally adjusted)as “Used cars and trucks”latest 2026-09-01
- CPI-U: Medical care commodities (U.S., not seasonally adjusted)as “Medical care commodities”latest 2026-09-01
- CPI-U: Recreation commodities (U.S., not seasonally adjusted)as “Recreation commodities”latest 2026-09-01
- CPI-U: Shelter (U.S., not seasonally adjusted)as “Shelter”latest 2026-09-01
- CPI-U: Medical care services (U.S., not seasonally adjusted)as “Medical care services”latest 2026-09-01
- CPI-U: Transportation services (U.S., not seasonally adjusted)as “Transportation services”latest 2026-09-01
- CPI-U: Recreation services (U.S., not seasonally adjusted)as “Recreation services”latest 2026-09-01
- CPI-U: Education and communication services (U.S., not seasonally adjusted)as “Education and communication services”latest 2026-09-01
Sources·12 sources
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CPI-U: All items less food and energy (U.S., not seasonally adjusted). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, series CUUR0000SA0L1E: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SA0L1E. Public domain ("everything that we publish... is in the public domain"). Read and, on CPI release days,; history from the BLS flat files (download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/cu).
CPI-U: Household furnishings and supplies (U.S., not seasonally adjusted). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, series CUUR0000SAH31: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SAH31. Public domain ("everything that we publish... is in the public domain"). Read and, on CPI release days,; history from the BLS flat files (download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/cu).
CPI-U: Apparel (U.S., not seasonally adjusted). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, series CUUR0000SAA: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SAA. Public domain ("everything that we publish... is in the public domain"). Read and, on CPI release days,; history from the BLS flat files (download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/cu).
CPI-U: New vehicles (U.S., not seasonally adjusted). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, series CUUR0000SETA01: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SETA01. Public domain ("everything that we publish... is in the public domain"). Read and, on CPI release days,; history from the BLS flat files (download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/cu).
CPI-U: Used cars and trucks (U.S., not seasonally adjusted). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, series CUUR0000SETA02: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SETA02. Public domain ("everything that we publish... is in the public domain"). Read and, on CPI release days,; history from the BLS flat files (download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/cu).
CPI-U: Medical care commodities (U.S., not seasonally adjusted). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, series CUUR0000SAM1: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SAM1. Public domain ("everything that we publish... is in the public domain"). Read and, on CPI release days,; history from the BLS flat files (download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/cu).
CPI-U: Recreation commodities (U.S., not seasonally adjusted). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, series CUUR0000SARC: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SARC. Public domain ("everything that we publish... is in the public domain"). Read and, on CPI release days,; history from the BLS flat files (download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/cu).
CPI-U: Shelter (U.S., not seasonally adjusted). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, series CUUR0000SAH1: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SAH1. Public domain ("everything that we publish... is in the public domain"). Read and, on CPI release days,; history from the BLS flat files (download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/cu).
CPI-U: Medical care services (U.S., not seasonally adjusted). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, series CUUR0000SAM2: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SAM2. Public domain ("everything that we publish... is in the public domain"). Read and, on CPI release days,; history from the BLS flat files (download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/cu).
CPI-U: Transportation services (U.S., not seasonally adjusted). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, series CUUR0000SAS4: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SAS4. Public domain ("everything that we publish... is in the public domain"). Read and, on CPI release days,; history from the BLS flat files (download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/cu).
CPI-U: Recreation services (U.S., not seasonally adjusted). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, series CUUR0000SARS: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SARS. Public domain ("everything that we publish... is in the public domain"). Read and, on CPI release days,; history from the BLS flat files (download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/cu).
CPI-U: Education and communication services (U.S., not seasonally adjusted). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, series CUUR0000SAES: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SAES. Public domain ("everything that we publish... is in the public domain"). Read and, on CPI release days,; history from the BLS flat files (download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/cu).
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