{"id":188711,"date":"2024-10-07T15:58:31","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T19:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/?post_type=short-read&#038;p=188711"},"modified":"2024-11-18T15:48:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T20:48:33","slug":"prices-are-up-in-all-us-metro-areas-but-some-much-more-than-others","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2024\/10\/07\/prices-are-up-in-all-us-metro-areas-but-some-much-more-than-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Prices are up in all U.S. metro areas, but some much more than others"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-640-wide is-resized\"><img data-dominant-color=\"826b4d\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_feature.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-188716 not-transparent\" style=\"--dominant-color: #826b4d; width:640px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_feature.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_feature.jpg?resize=300,169 300w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_feature.jpg?resize=768,432 768w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_feature.jpg?resize=1024,576 1024w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_feature.jpg?resize=564,317 564w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_feature.jpg?resize=1128,634 1128w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_feature.jpg?resize=690,388 690w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_feature.jpg?resize=268,151 268w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_feature.jpg?resize=536,302 536w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_feature.jpg?resize=194,110 194w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_feature.jpg?resize=148,84 148w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_feature.jpg?resize=296,168 296w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_feature.jpg?resize=720,405 720w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_feature.jpg?resize=200,113 200w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_feature.jpg?resize=260,146 260w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_feature.jpg?resize=310,174 310w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_feature.jpg?resize=420,236 420w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_feature.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_feature.jpg?resize=740,416 740w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_feature.jpg?resize=160,90 160w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_feature.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_feature.jpg?resize=540,304 540w\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Customers shop for produce at a grocery store in Rosemead, California. (Frederic J. Brown\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Inflation in the United States is down significantly from its recent highs, falling from an annual rate of 9.1% in June 2022 to 2.5% in August 2024. But actual <em>prices<\/em> remain elevated and, absent a recession, are likely to stay that way.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"border-width:1px;padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);--block-gap: inherit\" class=\"wp-block-prc-block-collapsible has-background has-ui-beige-very-light-background-color has-border-color has-ui-beige-dark-border-color\" id=\"how-we-did-this\" data-wp-interactive=\"{&quot;namespace&quot;:&quot;prc-block\\\/collapsible&quot;}\" data-wp-context=\"{&quot;collapsibleId&quot;:&quot;how-we-did-this&quot;,&quot;isOpen&quot;:false}\" data-wp-class--is-open=\"context.isOpen\" data-wp-init--scroll-into-view=\"callbacks.onInitScrollIntoView\"><div class=\"wp-block-prc-block-collapsible__title\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.onClick\"><div>How we did this<\/div><button class=\"wp-block-prc-block-collapsible__icon\"><span data-wp-bind--hidden=\"context.isOpen\"><i class=\"icon icon-library__light icon__circle-plus\"><svg style=\"width: 1em; height: 1em;\"><use xlink:href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/plugins\/prc-icon-library\/build\/icons\/sprites\/light.svg#circle-plus\"><\/use><\/svg><\/i><\/span><span data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!context.isOpen\" hidden><i class=\"icon icon-library__light icon__circle-minus\"><svg style=\"width: 1em; height: 1em;\"><use xlink:href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/plugins\/prc-icon-library\/build\/icons\/sprites\/light.svg#circle-minus\"><\/use><\/svg><\/i><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-prc-block-collapsible__content\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Along with its closely watched national inflation measure \u2013 the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) \u2013 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/cpi\/\">U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a> tracks consumer prices by census region and in 23 major metropolitan areas around the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This Pew Research Center analysis focuses on how much more various goods and services cost now compared with early 2020, before pandemic-related supply chain disruptions, business closures and floods of federal relief cash disrupted normal economic patterns. And because inflation patterns can vary considerably from place to place, we used the BLS\u2019s metro-area data for our analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Comparing those metro areas can be tricky, because the BLS releases its data on different schedules. Overall inflation figures come out monthly for the three largest metro areas (New York-Newark-Jersey City, Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim and Chicago-Naperville-Elgin), in even-numbered months for 11 areas, and in odd-numbered months for nine areas. Data on specific items may come out monthly or bimonthly, depending on the item and metro area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For each item in each area, we compared the most recent price index value (typically July or August 2024, depending on the data release schedule for that area) with the first index value available for early 2020 (typically January or February). In a few cases where those values weren\u2019t available, we used index data from May or June 2024 and December 2019; if those weren\u2019t available either, we excluded that item-metro combination from the analysis. For simplicity\u2019s sake, this post uses \u201cprice increases\u201d or similar terms to refer to changes in the index values reported by the BLS, though those index values are not themselves prices and can\u2019t be directly compared across metro areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In deciding which goods and services to include, we tried to balance specificity (the more specific the better) with availability (too much missing data would make meaningful analyses impossible). In the end, 20 CPI-U items made the cut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most of those CPI-U items are fairly self-explanatory, but one deserves a bit more detail. \u201cOwners\u2019 equivalent rent of primary residence\u201d is the BLS\u2019 attempt to separate a house\u2019s value as <em>shelter <\/em>(which the CPI-U considers a service) from its value as an&nbsp;<em>investment<\/em>&nbsp;(the increase in its market value over time), since investments aren\u2019t included in the CPI-U. It\u2019s effectively an estimate of how much it would cost to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/15\/business\/economy\/inflation-owners-equivalent-rent.html\">rent out an owner-occupied home<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On average, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/cpi.nr0.htm\">consumer prices in August 2024<\/a> were 22.0% above where they were in January 2020, before the <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/topic\/coronavirus-disease-covid-19\/\">COVID-19 pandemic<\/a> scrambled the U.S. economy and much of the rest of American life. Today, 74% of Americans say they are <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/politics\/2024\/09\/09\/economic-ratings-and-concerns\/#top-economic-concerns-food-and-consumer-prices-housing-costs\">very concerned about the price of food and consumer goods<\/a>, while 69% say the same about housing costs, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-420-wide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/?attachment_id=188713\"><img data-dominant-color=\"eeeae2\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #eeeae2;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" height=\"668\" width=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_1.png?w=420\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-188713 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_1.png 840w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_1.png?resize=189,300 189w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_1.png?resize=768,1221 768w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_1.png?resize=644,1024 644w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_1.png?resize=255,405 255w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_1.png?resize=200,318 200w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_1.png?resize=260,414 260w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_1.png?resize=310,493 310w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_1.png?resize=420,668 420w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_1.png?resize=640,1018 640w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_1.png?resize=740,1177 740w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_1.png?resize=160,254 160w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_1.png?resize=320,509 320w\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, people don\u2019t live on national averages. They live in particular places and buy particular things, and their experiences of inflation depend greatly on those particulars. The cost of apartments in Atlanta, bananas in Boston and sportswear in Seattle all factor into the national average inflation rate but can \u2013 and do \u2013 vary considerably from it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignright is-style-callout is-style-300-wide has-ui-beige-very-light-background-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"inflation-and-prices-not-the-same-thing\"><strong>Inflation and prices \u2013 not the same thing <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cInflation\u201d often is confused with the actual prices people pay for goods and services. The inflation rate refers to <em>how much<\/em> prices have risen over the past month, the past year or some other period. A lower inflation rate means consumer prices are rising more slowly than they had been, not that they\u2019re falling in absolute terms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Since early 2020, for example, consumer prices are up nearly 30% in the Tampa-St.\u00a0Petersburg-Clearwater metro area, 24.0% in San Diego-Carlsbad and \u201conly\u201d 16.6% in the San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward metro area (though prices started out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bea.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2023-12\/rpp1223_1.pdf\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">considerably higher in the Bay Area<\/span><\/a> than in the other metro areas studied).<br><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Of the metros we analyzed, the Bay Area has seen the largest increase in electricity prices (up by nearly two-thirds since the pre-pandemic days of early 2020) but the smallest increase in rent of primary residences (8.9%, though again starting from a relatively high base).<br><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Looking to drown your budgeting sorrows? Alcoholic beverages are 35.0% more expensive in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue metro area today than in February 2020, but 7.3% <em>less<\/em> expensive in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Related:<\/em><\/strong><em> <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2024\/08\/07\/eggs-gasoline-and-car-insurance-where-inflation-has-hit-americans-hardest\/\"><em>Eggs, gasoline and car insurance: Where inflation has hit Americans hardest<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To get a sense of where prices for various products and services have risen the most and least, we dug into the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics\u2019 consumer inflation data for 23 metropolitan areas, which together account for more than a third of the U.S. population. In each area, we tracked the prices of 20 items in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From early 2020 to summer 2024, consumer prices rose faster than the national average rate in 11 of the 23 metro areas we examined, led by three in the Southeast: Tampa-St.&nbsp;Petersburg-Clearwater, Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach and Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Higher housing costs are a big reason why Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater leads the table. Housing costs \u2013 represented in our analysis by \u201crent of primary residence\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/terms\/o\/owners-equivalent-rent.asp\">owners\u2019 equivalent rent of primary residence<\/a>\u201d (OER) \u2013 account for about a third of the overall CPI-U, so even small movements in those items can have an outsized effect on overall inflation readings. And since the start of 2020, <em>both<\/em> rent and OER have risen more in Tampa-St.&nbsp;Petersburg-Clearwater (46.9% and 44.6%, respectively) than any other metro area we examined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As with electricity, some items in the CPI-U show quite a lot of disparity between metro areas. Natural gas, for instance, costs nearly 71% more in the Bay Area than it did at the start of 2020, but just 5.3% more in Urban Alaska (which covers Anchorage and Matanuska-Susitna Borough). Recreation costs are 25.3% higher in the Seattle metro area, but nearly 5% <em>lower<\/em> in the Boston metro area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prices for other items have risen more consistently across metros. Used cars and trucks, for instance, are at least 30.0% more expensive in 16 of the 23 metro areas we looked at. Inflation in that category since early 2020 ranges from nearly 36% in the Boston metro area to about 26% in metro Miami.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And eating out \u2013 as captured in a CPI-U item called \u201cfood away from home\u201d \u2013 is anywhere from 35.1% more expensive in metro Denver to 22.6% more expensive in Tampa-St.&nbsp;Petersburg-Clearwater, compared with January 2020 prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-640-wide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/?attachment_id=188715\"><img data-dominant-color=\"f1f0ef\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #f1f0ef;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" height=\"1007\" width=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_2.png?w=640\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-188715 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_2.png 1280w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_2.png?resize=191,300 191w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_2.png?resize=768,1208 768w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_2.png?resize=651,1024 651w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_2.png?resize=976,1536 976w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_2.png?resize=257,405 257w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_2.png?resize=200,315 200w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_2.png?resize=260,409 260w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_2.png?resize=310,488 310w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_2.png?resize=420,661 420w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_2.png?resize=640,1007 640w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_2.png?resize=740,1164 740w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_2.png?resize=160,252 160w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/10\/SR_24.09.20_MetroAreaInflation_2.png?resize=320,504 320w\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inflation in the U.S. is down significantly from its recent highs. 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