Consumer Price Index
Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: All Items in U.S. City Average
The number, plainly.
The headline consumer price index, the cost of a fixed basket of what urban households buy.
Higher, lower, and what each means.
The level only matters as a change: how fast it is rising year over year is the inflation rate the Fed, your landlord and your union all read.
A reading is not a verdict. The Scan phase of Woodring’s Loop collects the signal; the Story phase asks what futures it is consistent with, and only the Stake phase turns that into a decision. This page does the first part.
The line in your 2027 plan.
Tests: the price-increase assumption in the revenue plan and the cost-of-living adjustment in the payroll plan.
Write the assumption down, name the reading that would break it, and put a date on when it has to be argued again. That is the 18-Month Sunset applied to one line of a budget. The Last Annual Planshows what this season’s moves have already done to the common ones.
The last 36 readings.
Most recent first. Every value is as published by FRED at the time of the last refresh; FRED revises some series after the fact.
| Date | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 337.48 | +0.4% |
| Sep 1, 2026 | 336.30 | +0.6% |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 334.13 | +0.4% |
| Jul 1, 2026 | 332.81 | +0.1% |
| Jun 1, 2026 | 332.57 | −0.4% |
| May 1, 2026 | 333.98 | +0.5% |
| Apr 1, 2026 | 332.41 | +0.6% |
| Mar 1, 2026 | 330.29 | +0.9% |
| Feb 1, 2026 | 327.46 | +0.3% |
| Jan 1, 2026 | 326.59 | +0.2% |
| Dec 1, 2025 | 326.03 | +0.3% |
| Nov 1, 2025 | 325.06 | +0.3% |
| Sep 1, 2025 | 324.25 | +0.3% |
| Aug 1, 2025 | 323.29 | +0.3% |
| Jul 1, 2025 | 322.17 | +0.2% |
| Jun 1, 2025 | 321.44 | +0.3% |
| May 1, 2025 | 320.62 | +0.1% |
| Apr 1, 2025 | 320.30 | +0.2% |
| Mar 1, 2025 | 319.79 | Unchanged |
| Feb 1, 2025 | 319.68 | +0.2% |
| Jan 1, 2025 | 318.96 | +0.4% |
| Dec 1, 2024 | 317.60 | +0.3% |
| Nov 1, 2024 | 316.53 | +0.3% |
| Oct 1, 2024 | 315.63 | +0.3% |
| Sep 1, 2024 | 314.73 | +0.2% |
| Aug 1, 2024 | 314.06 | +0.2% |
| Jul 1, 2024 | 313.57 | +0.2% |
| Jun 1, 2024 | 313.04 | Unchanged |
| May 1, 2024 | 313.18 | Unchanged |
| Apr 1, 2024 | 313.02 | +0.2% |
| Mar 1, 2024 | 312.35 | +0.4% |
| Feb 1, 2024 | 310.97 | +0.4% |
| Jan 1, 2024 | 309.70 | +0.3% |
| Dec 1, 2023 | 308.74 | +0.2% |
| Nov 1, 2023 | 308.15 | +0.1% |
| Oct 1, 2023 | 307.70 | — |
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Where the number comes from.
Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: All Items in U.S. City Average (CPIAUCSL), retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIAUCSL. Refreshed daily; 119 readings on file from Nov 1, 2016 to Oct 1, 2026.
Predictive Planning Institute, Signal Library: Consumer Price Index (CPIAUCSL). predictiveplanning.com/signals/CPIAUCSL. Data via FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Value 337.48 as of Oct 1, 2026.