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What Americans Are Paying More For

U.S. consumer prices by category, change from a year earlier, latest month, %

Gasoline leads at 34.2%
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Current·Data to Sep 2026

Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where a new leader takes first place.

Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers, seasonally adjusted. Energy includes gasoline and electricity.

Inflation item by item. Bars to the right of zero cost more than a year ago, bars to the left cost less; compare each with all items to see what is running hotter than prices in general.

What this chart reads·11 series

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Consumer Price Index. Source: The Bureau of Labor Statistics collects prices monthly from roughly 4,000 housing units and 26,000 retail establishments across 87 urban areas. Palanor pulls the series from the FRED API nightly.

CPI: Food at Home (Groceries). Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics via FRED (CUSR0000SAF11). Public.

CPI — Food Away from Home. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index, series CUSR0000SEFV. Palanor pulls it from the FRED API (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) nightly. Bureau of Labor Statistics data are in the public domain.

CPI: Shelter. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics via FRED (CUSR0000SAH1). Public.

CPI: Electricity. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics via FRED (CUSR0000SEHF01). Public.

CPI — Energy. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index, series CPIENGSL. Palanor pulls it from the FRED API (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) nightly. Bureau of Labor Statistics data are in the public domain.

CPI — Gasoline (All Types). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index, series CUSR0000SETB01. Palanor pulls it from the FRED API (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) nightly. Bureau of Labor Statistics data are in the public domain.

CPI: New Vehicles. Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index, series CUSR0000SETA01 (public domain). Palanor pulls it from the FRED API nightly.

CPI: Used Cars and Trucks. Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index, series CUSR0000SETA02 (public domain). Palanor pulls it from the FRED API nightly.

CPI — Medical Care. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index, series CPIMEDSL. Palanor pulls it from the FRED API (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) nightly. Bureau of Labor Statistics data are in the public domain.

CPI — Airline Fares. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index, series CUSR0000SETG01. Palanor pulls it from the FRED API (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) nightly. Bureau of Labor Statistics data are in the public domain.

Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.

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