Public dataset
Consumer Price Index, U.S. city average monthly series
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Rows
- 102
- Years
- 2018-2026
- Accessed
- Aug 13, 2026
Canonical indicator / all-items-inflation
All-items consumer prices
Twelve-month change in the CPI for all urban consumers, U.S. city average. This is a broad price index, not a measure of market power.
National economic context12-month percent changeCalendar month2018-01-2026-07
2026-07 latest
3.4%+1.3% from 2018-01- Observations
- 102
- 1 bounded entity
- Coverage
- 2018-2026
- 9 observed periods
- Sources
- 1
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Exact pair
- r 0.394
- 102 entity-period matches
Indicator dossierAll-items CPI102 observations / 2018-2026
01 / Measurement contract
Definition before comparison
The unit, universe, period, and source boundary travel with every observation.
What this series measures
Twelve-month change in the CPI for all urban consumers, U.S. city average. This is a broad price index, not a measure of market power.
The National Economic Context Observatory places exact source observations on one dated workspace, but it does not merge their units, frequencies, universes, seasonal-adjustment conventions, or release calendars. Monthly, quarterly, calendar-year, and fiscal-year signals keep independent scales. Missing periods are not interpolated or carried forward. These descriptive accounts do not establish concentration, profits, markups, employer power, a legal antitrust market, policy effectiveness, welfare effects, or causation, and they are never combined into a composite score.
- Indicator ID
- all-items-inflation
- Unit
- 12-month percent change
- Observation dimension
- Native publication period
- Grouping field
- Evidence system
- Period basis
- Calendar month
- Ranking contract
- Compare observed periods within one bounded series
02 / Observed variation
Fiscal-year range and trajectory
2018-01-2026-07; absent and withheld values do not enter the distribution.
- Minimum
- 0.1%
- 25th percentile
- 2.2%
- Median
- 2.8%
- 75th percentile
- 4.1%
- Maximum
- 9.1%
Selected interval1.9% to 2.8%28 observations / 27.5% of the snapshot
Ranked reference rows12-month percent change
- 012022-06United States prices9.1%
- 022022-05United States prices8.6%
- 032022-03United States prices8.5%
- 042022-07United States prices8.5%
- 052022-08United States prices8.3%
- 062022-04United States prices8.3%
- 072022-09United States prices8.2%
- 082022-02United States prices7.9%
- 1012020-04United States prices0.3%
- 1022020-05United States prices0.1%
03 / Coverage and quality
Where the series has evidence
Observed rows are counted explicitly by period, group, verification status, and confidence level.
Period ledger9 observed periods
20181 entity121 source
20191 entity121 source
20201 entity121 source
20211 entity121 source
20221 entity121 source
20231 entity121 source
20241 entity121 source
20251 entity111 source
20261 entity71 source
Evidence stateAll indicator observations
Data status
100.0%Verified / 102Confidence
100.0%High / 102Evidence systemLatest bounded snapshot, largest groups first
| Group | Rows | Average | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consumer prices | 102 | 3.5% | 0.1% to 9.1% |
04 / Exact paired lens
All-items and rent consumer-price change
Published twelve-month all-items and rent CPI changes for the same calendar month.
Same entity + same period0.394Pearson correlation across 102 exact pairs
-1 inverse 0 +1 aligned
- Pairing rule
- Same United States CPI universe and exact calendar month
- Companion indicator
- Rent CPI
- Matched current-series rows
- 102 / 102 (100.0%)
- Unpaired current-series rows
- 0; excluded from correlation
Interpretation boundaryThe National Economic Context Observatory places exact source observations on one dated workspace, but it does not merge their units, frequencies, universes, seasonal-adjustment conventions, or release calendars. Monthly, quarterly, calendar-year, and fiscal-year signals keep independent scales. Missing periods are not interpolated or carried forward. These descriptive accounts do not establish concentration, profits, markups, employer power, a legal antitrust market, policy effectiveness, welfare effects, or causation, and they are never combined into a composite score. The relationship is descriptive and does not identify a market structure or causal mechanism.
05 / Source custody
Evidence behind the series
1 source family, 0 contextual references, and 1 encoded methodology note.
Reusable indicator packetExact rows, stable identifier, and explicit route contract
- Canonical URL
- /indicators/all-items-inflation
- Indicator filter
- indicator=all-items-inflation
- License
- Antitrust Radar compilation: CC BY 4.0; upstream terms remain in force
Method notes encoded on rowsNo inferred methodology is substituted
- 01
Twelve-month change in the CPI for all urban consumers, U.S. city average. This is a broad price index, not a measure of market power.
Indicator evidence guardrail
One measure, one contract
This profile documents one bounded indicator at a time. Its ranks, distributions, histories, and paired views remain inside the stated universe, period basis, source, unit, and methodology; they are descriptive research screens, not legal findings or components of a composite score.
The National Economic Context Observatory places exact source observations on one dated workspace, but it does not merge their units, frequencies, universes, seasonal-adjustment conventions, or release calendars. Monthly, quarterly, calendar-year, and fiscal-year signals keep independent scales. Missing periods are not interpolated or carried forward. These descriptive accounts do not establish concentration, profits, markups, employer power, a legal antitrust market, policy effectiveness, welfare effects, or causation, and they are never combined into a composite score.