Table 3. Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U): Selected areas, all items index
Table 3. Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U): Selected areas, all items index
(1982-84=100, unless otherwise noted)
All items
Prici- Indexes Percent change to Percent change to
CPI-U ng Sep.2002 from-- Aug.2002 from--
sched-
ule June July Aug. Sep.
(1) 2002 2002 2002 2002 Sep. July Aug. Aug. June July
2001 2002 2002 2001 2002 2002
U.S. city average ........................... M 179.9 180.1 180.7 181.0 1.5 0.5 0.2 1.8 0.4 0.3
Region and area size(2)
Northeast urban ............................. M 187.8 188.3 189.3 189.5 2.4 0.6 0.1 2.3 0.8 0.5
Size A - More than 1,500,000 ............. M 189.5 190.1 191.3 191.2 2.5 0.6 -0.1 2.6 0.9 0.6
Size B/C 50,000 to 1,500,000 (3).......... M 111.6 111.8 112.0 112.6 2.0 0.7 0.5 1.4 0.4 0.2
Midwest urban ............................... M 175.3 175.3 175.8 176.2 0.9 0.5 0.2 1.6 0.3 0.3
Size A - More than 1,500,000 ............ M 177.7 177.5 178.2 178.8 1.5 0.7 0.3 1.9 0.3 0.4
Size B/C - 50,000 to 1,500,000 (3)......... M 111.2 111.3 111.4 111.5 -0.1 0.2 0.1 1.0 0.2 0.1
Size D - Nonmetropolitan (less than
50,000) ............................... M 168.9 169.4 169.7 170.0 0.7 0.4 0.2 1.7 0.5 0.2
South urban ................................. M 173.5 173.6 173.8 174.2 1.2 0.3 0.2 1.3 0.2 0.1
Size A - More than 1,500,000 ............. M 174.9 174.8 175.4 175.7 1.4 0.5 0.2 1.8 0.3 0.3
Size B/C - 50,000 to 1,500,000 (3)........ M 110.9 111.0 110.9 111.2 0.9 0.2 0.3 1.0 0.0 -0.1
Size D - Nonmetropolitan (less than
50,000) ............................... M 171.6 172.2 172.7 172.6 1.7 0.2 -0.1 1.5 0.6 0.3
West urban .................................. M 184.5 184.7 185.3 185.7 1.8 0.5 0.2 1.9 0.4 0.3
Size A - More than 1,500,000 ............ M 187.2 187.4 187.9 188.2 1.9 0.4 0.2 2.1 0.4 0.3
Size B/C - 50,000 to 1,500,000 (3)......... M 112.2 112.5 113.0 113.1 1.3 0.5 0.1 1.6 0.7 0.4
Size classes
A (4)...................................... M 164.5 164.6 165.3 165.5 1.8 0.5 0.1 2.1 0.5 0.4
B/C (3).................................... M 111.3 111.4 111.5 111.8 0.9 0.4 0.3 1.2 0.2 0.1
D ......................................... M 173.0 173.3 173.9 174.3 1.3 0.6 0.2 1.6 0.5 0.3
Selected local areas(5)
Chicago-Gary-Kenosha, IL-IN-WI .............. M 182.1 181.2 181.6 182.1 1.3 0.5 0.3 2.0 -0.3 0.2
Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange County, CA ..... M 181.9 182.2 183.0 183.4 2.6 0.7 0.2 2.6 0.6 0.4
New York-Northern N.J.-Long Island,
NY-NJ-CT-PA ............................. M 191.5 192.0 193.1 193.3 2.8 0.7 0.1 2.7 0.8 0.6
Boston-Brockton-Nashua, MA-NH-ME-CT ......... 1 - 195.7 - 199.1 3.3 1.7 - - - -
Cleveland-Akron, OH ......................... 1 - 173.4 - 174.6 0.0 0.7 - - - -
Dallas-Fort Worth, TX ....................... 1 - 172.9 - 173.2 0.2 0.2 - - - -
Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV (6)........ 1 - 113.4 - 114.0 2.1 0.5 - - - -
Atlanta, GA ................................. 2 179.1 - 179.7 - - - - 1.6 0.3 -
Detroit-Ann Arbor-Flint, MI ................. 2 179.0 - 180.9 - - - - 3.3 1.1 -
Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX .............. 2 158.3 - 160.1 - - - - 0.9 1.1 -
Miami-Fort Lauderdale, FL ................... 2 174.4 - 175.2 - - - - 1.0 0.5 -
Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City,
PA-NJ-DE-MD ............................. 2 186.3 - 188.3 - - - - 3.0 1.1 -
San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA .......... 2 193.2 - 193.5 - - - - 1.3 0.2 -
Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA ................ 2 189.4 - 190.3 - - - - 1.9 0.5 -
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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