United States inflation rate (CPI)
Year-on-year percentage change in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, all items, U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted.
| Current value | 3.5 percent (YoY, CPI-U all items, NSA) |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2026-06-01 |
| In force until | 2026-06-30 |
| Official source | U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 'Consumer Price Index - June 2026' news release (USDL, CPI-U, all items, U.S. city average, series CUUR0000SA0, 1982-84=100) |
| Last verified | 2026-07-20 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
CPI-U all items rose 3.5 percent over the 12 months ended June 2026 before seasonal adjustment; the index level was 333.952 (1982-84=100) against 322.561 in June 2025. On the month the NSA index fell 0.3 percent, driven by energy, which dropped 5.7 percent in June after rising 3.9 percent in May, 3.8 percent in April and 10.9 percent in March - the energy swing is why the headline rate fell sharply from 4.2 percent in May. CORE DIFFERS MATERIALLY: all items less food and energy (CUUR0000SA0L1E) was 336.882 in June 2026 against 328.364 in June 2025, i.e. 2.6 percent YoY - roughly 0.9 points below headline. Note the Federal Reserve's 2 percent target is defined on the PCE price index published by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, not on CPI; the two indices differ in scope and weighting and CPI typically runs above PCE. CPI-W (urban wage earners) is the series used for Social Security COLA and differs again. DATA GAP: the October 2025 CPI was never published - BLS footnotes it 'Data unavailable due to the 2025 lapse in appropriations' - so any October 2025 comparison is impossible and October 2026 YoY will also be uncomputable from published NSA levels. ACCESS QUIRK: bls.gov HTML news-release pages (news.release/cpi.nr0.htm and the archives directory) return HTTP 403 to automated clients; the values here were taken from the BLS Public Data API v2 (api.bls.gov/publicAPI/v2/timeseries/data/), which is an official BLS endpoint and serves the same published index levels, and cross-checked against the June 2026 news release text. Historical percentages below are derived by us from those official NSA index levels (rounded to one decimal) rather than lifted from each month's release, because the archived releases were unreachable - the arithmetic is stated so it can be re-checked.
Earlier values
| From | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-01 | 2.4 | U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, series CUUR0000SA0 via BLS |
| 2026-02-01 | 2.4 | U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, series CUUR0000SA0 via BLS |
| 2026-03-01 | 3.3 | U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, series CUUR0000SA0 via BLS |
| 2026-04-01 | 3.8 | U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, series CUUR0000SA0 via BLS |
| 2026-05-01 | 4.2 | U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, series CUUR0000SA0 via BLS |
Get it programmatically
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