Bureau of Labor Statistics
Table 6. Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W): Selected areas, all items index
Table 6. Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W): Selected areas, all items index
(1982-84=100, unless otherwise noted)
All items
Indexes Percent change to Percent change to
CPI-W Pricing Sep. 2008 from-- Aug. 2008 from--
schedule
(1) June July Aug. Sep.
2008 2008 2008 2008 Sep. July Aug. Aug. June July
2007 2008 2008 2007 2008 2008
U.S. city average........................... M 215.223 216.304 215.247 214.935 5.4 -0.6 -0.1 5.9 0.0 -0.5
Region and area size(2)
Northeast urban............................. M 229.829 231.488 230.790 229.949 5.7 -0.7 -0.4 6.2 0.4 -0.3
Size A - More than 1,500,000.............. M 230.120 231.808 231.465 230.579 5.4 -0.5 -0.4 6.0 0.6 -0.1
Size B/C - 50,000 to 1,500,000 (3)........ M 139.286 140.253 139.329 138.881 6.5 -1.0 -0.3 6.6 0.0 -0.7
Midwest urban............................... M 204.867 206.038 205.121 205.023 5.2 -0.5 0.0 5.9 0.1 -0.4
Size A - More than 1,500,000.............. M 204.509 205.761 204.989 205.002 5.0 -0.4 0.0 5.6 0.2 -0.4
Size B/C - 50,000 to 1,500,000 (3)........ M 134.409 135.037 134.236 134.215 5.6 -0.6 0.0 6.2 -0.1 -0.6
Size D - Nonmetropolitan (less than
50,000)............................... M 204.023 205.452 204.812 204.064 5.4 -0.7 -0.4 6.4 0.4 -0.3
South urban................................. M 210.469 211.438 210.362 210.572 5.9 -0.4 0.1 6.2 -0.1 -0.5
Size A - More than 1,500,000.............. M 213.549 214.379 213.439 213.579 5.5 -0.4 0.1 6.0 -0.1 -0.4
Size B/C - 50,000 to 1,500,000 (3)........ M 134.222 134.952 134.179 134.285 5.8 -0.5 0.1 6.1 0.0 -0.6
Size D - Nonmetropolitan (less than
50,000)............................... M 216.357 216.901 216.031 216.762 7.7 -0.1 0.3 7.5 -0.2 -0.4
West urban.................................. M 218.508 219.248 217.854 217.028 4.8 -1.0 -0.4 5.4 -0.3 -0.6
Size A - More than 1,500,000.............. M 220.603 221.232 219.827 219.169 4.9 -0.9 -0.3 5.6 -0.4 -0.6
Size B/C - 50,000 to 1,500,000 (3)........ M 135.738 136.478 135.464 134.873 4.8 -1.2 -0.4 5.4 -0.2 -0.7
Size classes
A (4)..................................... M 199.028 200.009 199.187 198.842 5.2 -0.6 -0.2 5.8 0.1 -0.4
B/C (3)................................... M 135.240 135.986 135.138 135.003 5.7 -0.7 -0.1 6.1 -0.1 -0.6
D......................................... M 211.236 211.929 211.233 210.844 5.8 -0.5 -0.2 6.4 0.0 -0.3
Selected local areas(5)
Chicago-Gary-Kenosha, IL-IN-WI.............. M 209.021 211.020 209.435 209.084 4.8 -0.9 -0.2 5.4 0.2 -0.8
Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange County, CA..... M 222.435 223.245 221.230 220.285 5.0 -1.3 -0.4 5.7 -0.5 -0.9
New York-Northern N.J.-Long Island,
NY-NJ-CT-PA............................. M 233.776 235.446 235.510 234.703 5.6 -0.3 -0.3 6.1 0.7 0.0
Boston-Brockton-Nashua, MA-NH-ME-CT......... 1 - 240.511 - 238.133 4.7 -1.0 - - - -
Cleveland-Akron, OH......................... 1 - 198.063 - 197.260 5.0 -0.4 - - - -
Dallas-Fort Worth, TX....................... 1 - 210.830 - 209.666 6.4 -0.6 - - - -
Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV (6)....... 1 - 141.622 - 141.679 5.5 0.0 - - - -
Atlanta, GA................................. 2 212.013 - 211.113 - - - - 5.5 -0.4 -
Detroit-Ann Arbor-Flint, MI................. 2 203.524 - 205.492 - - - - 5.5 1.0 -
Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX.............. 2 193.742 - 193.206 - - - - 5.9 -0.3 -
Miami-Fort Lauderdale, FL................... 2 223.849 - 224.597 - - - - 6.4 0.3 -
Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City,
PA-NJ-DE-MD............................. 2 228.429 - 228.212 - - - - 5.0 -0.1 -
San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA.......... 2 221.454 - 221.385 - - - - 4.6 0.0 -
Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA................ 2 223.573 - 223.273 - - - - 6.2 -0.1 -
1 Areas on pricing schedule 2 (see Table 10) will appear next month.
2 Regions defined as the four Census regions. See technical notes.
3 Indexes on a December 1996=100 base.
4 Indexes on a December 1986=100 base.
5 In addition, the following metropolitan areas are published semiannually and appear in Tables 34 and 39 of the January and
July issues of the CPI Detailed Report: Anchorage, AK; Cincinnati-Hamilton, OH-KY-IN; Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO; Honolulu, HI;
Kansas City, MO-KS; Milwaukee-Racine, WI; Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI; Phoenix-Mesa, AZ; Pittsburgh, PA; Portland-Salem, OR-WA;
St. Louis, MO-IL; San Diego, CA; Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL.
6 Indexes on a November 1996=100 base.
- Data not available.
NOTE: Index applies to a month as a whole, not to any specific date.
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