GROCERY BASKET PRICE INDEX
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Latest data: July 2026 Released: August 12, 2026 Next update: September 11, 2026

BLS average price data

Grocery price history by year

Explore annual and monthly price history for 13 tracked grocery items, covering 1980 through 2026. Each item now has one complete archive with a year picker instead of a long list of separate year pages. Every destination uses U.S. city-average observations from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Latest data: July 2026 · 2026 is year to date

How to use this archive

Choose a current-year card for monthly 2026 prices, or use a comparison-year group to open that year inside an item’s complete archive. Each archive includes a chart, monthly table, annual average, and inflation-adjusted value for the selected year. The 2026 averages are partial-year figures through July 2026; they will update only when the committed BLS observations advance.

Each grocery keeps its own reported unit, such as a gallon, dozen, or pound. Basket Report never averages prices across unlike units and never fills missing months by interpolation. A year appears in an archive only when its named BLS series contains at least one real observation for that year.

Coverage varies because BLS series begin in different years. The full archive list shows the actual range and decades available for every enabled item, while each item’s canonical price page links to its consolidated history archive.

Current year

2026 grocery prices by month

Year-to-date averages through July 2026.

Eggs $2.31 YTD average per dozen Latest: $2.19 in July Milk $4.17 YTD average per gallon Latest: $4.31 in July Ground beef $6.79 YTD average per pound Latest: $6.89 in July Coffee $9.49 YTD average per pound Latest: $9.32 in July Bacon $6.77 YTD average per pound Latest: $6.58 in July Butter $4.12 YTD average per pound Latest: $3.92 in July Bread $1.83 YTD average per pound Latest: $1.82 in July Fresh whole chicken $2.03 YTD average per pound Latest: $2.01 in July Sugar $1.02 YTD average per pound Latest: $1.02 in July Cheddar cheese $5.91 YTD average per pound Latest: $5.74 in July Bananas $0.65 YTD average per pound Latest: $0.65 in July Potatoes $0.89 YTD average per pound Latest: $0.94 in July Boneless chicken breast $4.16 YTD average per pound Latest: $4.15 in July

Reference points

Compare grocery prices in selected years

These are useful comparison years, not a claim that they are the most searched. Every link opens the named item’s real monthly observations for that year.

2019

2020

2022

2025

Complete coverage

Full item archives

Open an item to browse every available year. Counts and ranges below are generated from its committed non-null observations.

Source and methodology

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, CPI Average Price Data. Retrieved August 13, 2026 via the BLS Public Data API. Series identifiers and downloadable CSV/JSON files are listed on each item page and in the data directory.

BLS.gov cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from BLS.gov.