What groceries actually cost right now.
The Basket Index tracks the real shelf price of 24 staple grocery items across U.S. cities — charted monthly back to 1980, sourced from official BLS data, free to cite and embed.
Biggest movers
All 24 items →Where groceries cost more — by region
All regions →BLS reports grocery prices for the four census regions (not individual metros). Since each region prices a different subset of items, regions are ranked on a separate 11-item comparable basket — a smaller, like-for-like set. These dollar figures are deliberately lower than the 24-item Basket Index ($111.46) above — it's a different basket, not the same number.
| # | Region | Comparable basket · 11 items | vs. U.S. avg | YoY |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Northeast | $58.60 | +4.6% | ▲ 6.8% |
| 02 | West | $56.12 | +0.2% | ▼ 2.0% |
| — | U.S. city average | $56.03 | — | ▲ 1.9% |
| 04 | Midwest | $55.81 | -0.4% | ▲ 2.6% |
| 05 | South | $54.98 | -1.9% | ▲ 1.6% |
Comparable-basket figures (including YoY) reflect the 11 staples priced in all four regions, each at its latest BLS price — see By Region for the method.
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Every chart on Basket Report is free to embed, every series is downloadable as CSV or JSON, and every number traces to a named BLS series. Built for journalists, researchers, and anyone arguing about egg prices online.
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