Dataset
Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U): all items, every area
bls.cpi_u.all_items
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About
The CPI-U all-items index for the U.S. city average and every published region, size class and metropolitan area, seasonally adjusted and not. CUUR0000SA0 is all items in the U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, the series most inflation figures are computed from; CUSR0000SA0 is the same series seasonally adjusted. The value is the index level; its change over 12 months is the inflation rate. The file holds 201 series.
Cite as: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U): all items, every area, cu.data.1.AllItems.
- Publisher
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Tier
- OfficialVerified
- Covers
- 1913–now
- Places
- United States
- Updated
- monthly
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Units
- index (the series title names the base period; most are 1982-84=100)
- License
- U.S. Government Work (public domain)
- Method
- https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/cpi/
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| series_id | text | the BLS series id |
| series_title | text | what the series measures, from the survey's series file |
| seasonal | text | S for seasonally adjusted, U for not |
| year | integer | |
| period | text | M01 to M12 a month, M13 an annual average, Q a quarter, S a half |
| date | date | the first day of the period; empty for an annual average |
| value | number | |
| footnote_codes | text | BLS footnote codes, such as P for preliminary |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| series | CUSR0000SA0 All items in U.S. city average, all urban consumers, seasonally adjusted, CUUR0000AA0 All items - old base in U.S. city average, all urban consumers, not seasonally adjusted, CUUR0000SA0 All items in U.S. city average, all urban consumers, not seasonally adjusted, CUUR0100AA0 All items - old base in Northeast urban, all urban consumers, not seasonally adjusted, CUUR0100SA0 All items in Northeast urban, all urban consumers, not seasonally adjusted, CUUR0110SA0 All items in New England, all urban consumers, not seasonally adjusted, CUUR0120SA0 All items in Middle Atlantic, all urban consumers, not seasonally adjusted, CUUR0200AA0 All items - old base in Midwest urban, all urban consumers, not seasonally adjusted, CUUR0200SA0 All items in Midwest urban, all urban consumers, not seasonally adjusted, CUUR0230SA0 All items in East North Central, all urban consumers, not seasonally adjusted, CUUR0240SA0 All items in West North Central, all urban consumers, not seasonally adjusted, CUUR0300AA0 All items - old base in South urban, all urban consumers, not seasonally adjusted … |
| year |