Grocery Prices
Meat & Poultry prices
U.S. city average · Reporting month: September 2026
Meat & Poultry price snapshot
The meat & poultry group covers bacon, beef roast, chicken breast, chicken legs, chicken, ground beef, ham, pork chops and steak — 9 products tracked at the U.S. city average from Bureau of Labor Statistics data. 8 of 9 items have September 2026 observations, ranging from chicken legs at $1.74 per pound to steak at $12.69 per pound. Package units differ, so this is a source-unit price range rather than a serving-cost comparison. Among September 2026 observations with a prior-month comparison, 5 rose, 3 fell and 0 were unchanged.
The September 2026 observation is unavailable for pork chops (APU0000704211); its latest published price is $4.91 per pound for May 2026. These older observations are excluded from September 2026 price ranges, change counts and mover rankings.
The biggest available September 2026 monthly increase came from chicken legs, up 4.1%. The biggest available September 2026 monthly decline came from beef roast, down 2.9%. Among September 2026 observations, ground beef has the largest available absolute annual change: up 7.4% from a year earlier.
These are unadjusted BLS shelf averages. Basket members feed the fixed-weight Grocery Basket Price Index; tracked reference products are separate. Bacon carries the longest record, charted monthly back to January 1980. Open any row for its history and series ID. The table's changes compare periods relative to each row's source month.
| Item | Unit | Price | MoM | YoY | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bacon, sliced
Source: | pound | $6.76 | ▲ 2.3% | ▼ 7.3% | |
| Beef Roast
Source: | pound | $9.10 | ▼ 2.9% | ▲ 0.6% | |
| Chicken breast, boneless
Source: | pound | $4.20 | ▲ 0.7% | ▲ 0.7% | |
| Chicken Legs
Source: | pound | $1.74 | ▲ 4.1% | ▼ 3.2% | |
| Chicken, fresh, whole
Source: | pound | $2.06 | ▲ 2.6% | ▲ 0.1% | |
| Ground beef, 100% beef
Source: | pound | $6.79 | ▼ 1.9% | ▲ 7.4% | |
| Ham, boneless, excluding canned
Source: | pound | $5.45 | ▲ 1.3% | ▼ 0.5% | |
| Pork chops, center cut, bone-in
Source: · September 2026 unavailable | pound | $4.91 | ▲ 6.7% | ▲ 8.9% | |
| Steak
Source: | pound | $12.69 | ▼ 1.0% | ▲ 3.5% |
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, CPI Average Price Data, series listed on each item page. Retrieved October 14, 2026 via the BLS Public Data API. Download the full directory as CSV or JSON. BLS.gov cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from BLS.gov.