Southwest - Consumer Prices

 

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

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data		 Annual
average
2008		 Feb
2009		 Mar
2009		 Percent change
Annual
average
2007 to
2008		 12 months
ended
Feb
2009		 Mar
2009

U.S. City Average
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 215.303 212.193 212.709 3.8 0.2 -0.4

South (1)

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 208.681 205.343 206.001 4.2 0.1 -0.3

South City Size Class (population)

  

A (over 1.5 million)
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 211.040 207.929 208.529 4.1 0.2 -0.3

B/C (50,000-1.5 million) (2)

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 132.616 130.380 130.873 4.1 0.0 -0.4

D (less than 50,000)
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 210.061 206.671 206.927 4.9 0.7 0.0
 

Metropolitan areas

  

Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (3)

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 201.791   200.039 4.4   0.7

Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX (3)

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 189.967 187.972   3.3 0.2  

Footnotes
(1) The South region includes Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.
(2) December 1996=100.
(3) Published in alternate months.

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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