Prices in the West Region, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), fell 0.2 percent in June, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table A.) The June decrease was influenced by lower prices for gasoline. (Data in this report are not seasonally adjusted. Accordingly, month-to-month changes may reflect seasonal influences.)

Over the last 12 months, the CPI-U increased 2.8 percent. (See chart 1 and table A.) Food prices increased 2.6 percent. Energy prices advanced 1.0 percent, largely the result of an increase in the price of electricity. The index for all items less food and energy rose 3.0 percent over the year. (See table 1.)  

  

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Chart 1. Over-the-year percent change in CPI-U, West region, June 2021–June 2024

Month	All items	All items less food and energy
Jun 2021	5.1	4.1
Jul 2021	5.2	3.9
Aug 2021	5.0	3.8
Sep 2021	5.3	4.0
Oct 2021	6.0	4.5
Nov 2021	6.5	4.8
Dec 2021	7.1	5.5
Jan 2022	7.7	6.2
Feb 2022	8.1	6.7
Mar 2022	8.7	6.8
Apr 2022	8.3	6.4
May 2022	8.3	6.2
Jun 2022	8.8	6.2
Jul 2022	8.3	6.3
Aug 2022	8.1	6.7
Sep 2022	8.3	6.8
Oct 2022	8.1	6.4
Nov 2022	7.1	6.0
Dec 2022	6.2	5.7
Jan 2023	6.3	5.6
Feb 2023	6.0	5.3
Mar 2023	5.1	5.5
Apr 2023	4.9	5.4
May 2023	4.5	5.3
Jun 2023	3.5	4.7
Jul 2023	3.5	4.3
Aug 2023	3.9	4.1
Sep 2023	3.9	3.9
Oct 2023	3.3	3.7
Nov 2023	3.3	3.7
Dec 2023	3.6	3.7
Jan 2024	3.3	3.7
Feb 2024	3.2	3.6
Mar 2024	3.6	3.8
Apr 2024	3.7	3.6
May 2024	3.3	3.3
Jun 2024	2.8	3.0

Food prices rose 0.2 percent for the month of June. (See table 1.) Prices for food at home declined 0.1 percent, largely due to lower prices for fruits and vegetables (-1.7 percent). Prices for food away from home rose 0.6 percent for the same period.

Over the year, food prices increased 2.6 percent. Prices for food at home rose 1.3 percent since a year ago, led by higher prices for meats, poultry, fish, and eggs (3.7 percent) and other food at home (1.8 percent). Prices for food away from home advanced 4.7 percent.

The energy index declined 3.7 percent over the month. The decrease was mainly due to lower prices for gasoline (-6.1 percent). Prices for electricity declined 1.3 percent, while prices for natural gas service increased 2.1 percent for the same period.

Energy prices advanced 1.0 percent over the year, largely due to higher prices for electricity (9.2 percent). Prices paid for natural gas service rose 6.4 percent, while prices for gasoline fell 4.5 percent during the past year.

The index for all items less food and energy was unchanged in June. Higher prices for other goods and services (1.7 percent) and medical care (0.3 percent) were partially offset by lower prices for household furnishings and operations (-0.4 percent).

Over the year, the index for all items less food and energy rose 3.0 percent. Components contributing to the increase included medical care (5.0 percent) and shelter (4.1 percent). Partly offsetting the increases were price decreases in new and used motor vehicles (-4.2 percent) and household furnishings and operations (-1.2 percent).

The July 2024 Consumer Price Index for the West Region is scheduled to be released on August 14, 2024.

The Consumer Price Index for the West Region is published monthly. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of the average change in prices over time in a fixed market basket of goods and services. The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes CPIs for two population groups: (1) a CPI for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) which covers approximately 93 percent of the total U.S. population and (2) a CPI for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) which covers approximately 29 percent of the total U.S. population. The CPI-U includes, in addition to wage earners and clerical workers, groups such as professional, managerial, and technical workers, the self-employed, short-term workers, the unemployed, and retirees and others not in the labor force.

The CPI is based on prices of food, clothing, shelter, fuels, transportation fares, charges for doctors' and dentists' services, drugs, and the other goods and services that people buy for day-to-day living. Each month, prices are collected in 75 urban areas across the country from about 6,000 housing units and approximately 22,000 retail establishments—department stores, supermarkets, hospitals, filling stations, and other types of stores and service establishments. All taxes directly associated with the purchase and use of items are included in the index.

The index measures price changes from a designated reference date; for most of the CPI-U the reference base is 1982-84 equals 100. An increase of 7 percent from the reference base, for example, is shown as 107.000.  Alternatively, that relationship can also be expressed as the price of a base period market basket of goods and services rising from $100 to $107. For further details see the CPI home page on the internet at www.bls.gov/cpi and the CPI section of the BLS Handbook of Methods available on the internet at www.bls.gov/opub/hom/cpi/.

In calculating the index, price changes for the various items in each location are averaged together with weights that represent their importance in the spending of the appropriate population group. Local data are then combined to obtain a U.S. city average. Because the sample size of a local area is smaller, the local area index is subject to substantially more sampling and other measurement error than the national index. In addition, local indexes are not adjusted for seasonal influences. As a result, local area indexes show greater volatility than the national index, although their long-term trends are quite similar. NOTE: Area indexes do not measure differences in the level of prices between cities; they only measure the average change in prices for each area since the base period.

The West Region covered in this release is comprised of the following thirteen states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.

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Table 1. Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U): Indexes and percent changes for selected periods

West (1982-84=100 unless otherwise noted)

Item and Group	Indexes				Percent change from-
	Historical data	Apr. 2024	May 2024	Jun. 2024	Jun. 2023	Apr. 2024	May 2024
Expenditure category
All Items		334.050	334.292	333.662	2.8	-0.1	-0.2
All items (December 1977=100)		539.974	540.365	539.346	-	-	-
Food and beverages		340.325	341.331	341.948	2.6	0.5	0.2
Food		342.695	343.696	344.320	2.6	0.5	0.2
Food at home		320.076	321.106	320.676	1.3	0.2	-0.1
Cereals and bakery products		331.987	335.515	333.867	-0.5	0.6	-0.5
Meats, poultry, fish, and eggs		344.964	348.228	348.945	3.7	1.2	0.2
Dairy and related products		285.323	284.631	284.165	0.4	-0.4	-0.2
Fruits and vegetables		403.472	406.886	400.111	0.5	-0.8	-1.7
Nonalcoholic beverages and beverage materials		225.817	223.598	223.986	-0.3	-0.8	0.2
Other food at home		277.448	277.123	279.187	1.8	0.6	0.7
Food away from home		374.678	375.619	377.964	4.7	0.9	0.6
Alcoholic beverages		304.043	305.108	305.628	2.4	0.5	0.2
Housing		372.998	374.002	373.583	3.8	0.2	-0.1
Shelter		429.234	430.072	429.865	4.1	0.1	0.0
Rent of primary residence(1)		455.275	456.512	456.998	4.1	0.4	0.1
Owners' equiv. rent of residences(1)(2)		450.645	451.211	451.562	4.2	0.2	0.1
Owners' equiv. rent of primary residence(1)(2)		450.426	450.989	451.333	4.2	0.2	0.1
Fuels and utilities		424.330	429.018	427.383	7.4	0.7	-0.4
Household energy		372.663	378.549	376.274	8.3	1.0	-0.6
Energy services(1)		376.143	382.253	379.943	8.6	1.0	-0.6
Electricity(1)		423.523	427.593	421.973	9.2	-0.4	-1.3
Utility (piped) gas service(1)		283.454	295.428	301.603	6.4	6.4	2.1
Household furnishings and operations		158.001	158.247	157.596	-1.2	-0.3	-0.4
Apparel		127.308	125.766	126.699	-0.6	-0.5	0.7
Transportation		290.292	288.932	284.482	1.8	-2.0	-1.5
Private transportation		287.904	285.990	282.659	1.8	-1.8	-1.2
New and used motor vehicles(3)		123.480	123.652	123.370	-4.2	-0.1	-0.2
New vehicles		175.725	175.466	175.470	-1.4	-0.1	0.0
New cars and trucks(3)(4)		-	-	-	-	-	-
New cars(4)		173.450	173.596	173.291	-2.1	-0.1	-0.2
Used cars and trucks		172.840	173.701	173.893	-10.2	0.6	0.1
Motor fuel		380.778	372.481	350.324	-4.6	-8.0	-5.9
Gasoline (all types)		380.052	371.875	349.287	-4.5	-8.1	-6.1
Gasoline, unleaded regular(4)		376.087	367.756	344.810	-4.8	-8.3	-6.2
Gasoline, unleaded midgrade(4)(5)		362.517	355.141	334.779	-3.9	-7.7	-5.7
Gasoline, unleaded premium(4)		372.242	365.070	345.038	-3.4	-7.3	-5.5
Medical Care		603.789	607.285	609.095	5.0	0.9	0.3
Medical care commodities		466.995	474.853	476.071	4.5	1.9	0.3
Medical care services		646.090	648.180	650.175	5.1	0.6	0.3
Professional services		421.019	422.268	424.767	5.5	0.9	0.6
Recreation(3)		132.093	131.285	131.248	0.6	-0.6	0.0
Education and communication(3)		144.366	144.024	143.827	0.3	-0.4	-0.1
Tuition, other school fees, and child care(6)		1,667.367	1,671.739	1,675.543	1.5	0.5	0.2
Other goods and services		543.066	545.289	554.723	3.0	2.1	1.7
Commodity and Service Group
All Items		334.050	334.292	333.662	2.8	-0.1	-0.2
Commodities		229.448	229.025	227.716	-0.8	-0.8	-0.6
Commodities less food & beverages		177.034	176.128	174.207	-2.7	-1.6	-1.1
Nondurables less food & beverages		239.535	237.767	233.627	-1.4	-2.5	-1.7
Nondurables less food, beverages, and apparel		318.213	316.269	308.662	-1.6	-3.0	-2.4
Durables		123.417	123.104	122.672	-4.2	-0.6	-0.4
Services		431.410	432.318	432.389	5.0	0.2	0.0
Rent of shelter(2)		457.718	458.622	458.400	4.1	0.1	0.0
Transportation services		426.880	427.430	426.172	12.5	-0.2	-0.3
Other services		414.136	413.198	414.914	2.3	0.2	0.4
Special aggregate indexes:
All items less medical care		321.601	321.705	320.974	2.7	-0.2	-0.2
All items less food		332.797	332.925	332.105	2.9	-0.2	-0.2
All items less shelter		296.549	296.538	295.719	2.1	-0.3	-0.3
Commodities less food		181.771	180.897	179.008	-2.5	-1.5	-1.0
Nondurables		290.006	289.550	287.650	0.7	-0.8	-0.7
Nondurables less food		244.708	243.076	239.151	-1.2	-2.3	-1.6
Nondurables less food and apparel		316.467	314.782	307.879	-1.3	-2.7	-2.2
Services less rent of shelter(2)		446.574	447.594	448.076	6.3	0.3	0.1
Services less medical care services		416.270	417.098	417.045	5.0	0.2	0.0
Energy		385.035	382.721	368.735	1.0	-4.2	-3.7
All items less energy		333.541	333.942	334.128	3.0	0.2	0.1
All items less food and energy		332.846	333.150	333.265	3.0	0.1	0.0
Commodities less food and energy commodities		160.780	160.601	160.602	-2.3	-0.1	0.0
Energy commodities		387.135	378.803	356.599	-4.6	-7.9	-5.9
Services less energy services		436.356	437.004	437.197	4.8	0.2	0.0
Footnotes (1) This index series was calculated using a Laspeyres estimator. All other item stratum index series were calculated using a geometric means estimator. (2) Indexes on a December 1982=100 base. (3) Indexes on a December 1997=100 base. (4) Special index based on a substantially smaller sample. (5) Indexes on a December 1993=100 base. (6) Indexes on a December 1977=100 base.
- Data not available Regions defined as the four Census regions. West includes Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. NOTE: Index applies to a month as a whole, not to any specific date. Data not seasonally adjusted.