Mid-Atlantic - Consumer Prices

 

Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, all items, in the U.S., Northeast, and South, and selected metropolitan areas
(1982-84=100 unless otherwise noted)(not seasonally adjusted)
Area

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data		 Annual
average
2007		 Jul
2008		 Aug
2008		 Percent change
Annual
average
2006 to
2007		 12 months
ended
Jul
2008		 Aug
2008

U.S. City Average
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 207.342 219.964 219.086 2.8 5.6 5.4

Northeast region (1)

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 220.512 234.545 233.788 2.6 5.7 5.5

Northeast City Size Class (population)

  

A (over 1.5 million)
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 223.036 236.460 236.107 2.6 5.5 5.3

B/C (50,000-1.5 million) (3)

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 130.139 139.623 138.537 2.6 6.3 6.1

South region (2)

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 200.361 213.304 212.387 2.9 5.8 5.6

South City Size Class (population)

  

A (over 1.5 million)
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 202.825 215.373 214.496 3.1 5.6 5.4

B/C (50,000-1.5 million) (3)

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 127.422 135.643 135.004 2.8 5.8 5.6

D (less than 50,000)
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 200.203 215.274 214.655 2.6 6.8 6.9
 

Metropolitan areas

  

Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City, PA-NJ-DE-MD (5)

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 216.743   228.337 2.2   4.4

Pittsburgh, PA (4)

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 201.483  

 

3.0  

 

Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV (5) (6)

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 133.464 142.065   3.6 5.7  

Footnotes
(1) The Northeast region includes Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
(2) The South region includes Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia.
(3) December 1996=100.
(4) Published only as semi-annual (6-month) average.
(5) Published in alternate months.
(6) November 1996=100

SOURCE: Consumer Price Index
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) measures changes in prices of all goods and services purchased for consumption by urban households.
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