UK CPIH Inflation (12-Month)

## What this measures

The 12-month change in CPIH, which adds the cost of living in one's own home (measured as rental equivalence) and council tax to CPI.

## Why it matters

ONS treats CPIH as its lead measure of inflation because it covers housing costs most households face.

## How to read it

Compare with CPI (uk.cpi.yoy): a wider gap means housing costs are rising faster than other prices.

## What it does not say

Owner-occupier costs are imputed from rents, not mortgage payments.

## Source

Office for National Statistics, series L55O (dataset MM23), "CPIH ANNUAL RATE 00: ALL ITEMS 2015=100". Palanor reads it from the ONS website's time-series data every day.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0.