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
Prici- Indexes Percent change to Percent change to
CPI-W 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 175.9 176.1 176.6 177.0 1.3 0.5 0.2 1.6 0.4 0.3
Region and area size(2)
Northeast urban ............................. M 184.2 184.7 185.7 186.2 2.4 0.8 0.3 2.2 0.8 0.5
Size A - More than 1,500,000 ............. M 184.6 185.2 186.4 186.7 2.4 0.8 0.2 2.3 1.0 0.6
Size B/C 50,000 to 1,500,000 (3).......... M 111.4 111.7 112.0 112.5 2.4 0.7 0.4 2.0 0.5 0.3
Midwest urban ............................... M 170.7 170.8 171.3 171.7 0.5 0.5 0.2 1.4 0.4 0.3
Size A - More than 1,500,000 ............ M 172.3 172.1 172.8 173.4 1.2 0.8 0.3 1.8 0.3 0.4
Size B/C - 50,000 to 1,500,000 (3)......... M 110.7 110.9 111.0 111.1 -0.6 0.2 0.1 0.8 0.3 0.1
Size D - Nonmetropolitan (less than
50,000) ............................... M 166.7 167.3 167.6 167.8 0.4 0.3 0.1 1.6 0.5 0.2
South urban ................................. M 171.1 171.1 171.3 171.7 0.8 0.4 0.2 1.1 0.1 0.1
Size A - More than 1,500,000 ............. M 172.3 172.2 172.7 172.9 1.2 0.4 0.1 1.7 0.2 0.3
Size B/C - 50,000 to 1,500,000 (3)........ M 110.2 110.2 110.2 110.5 0.5 0.3 0.3 0.8 0.0 0.0
Size D - Nonmetropolitan (less than
50,000) ............................... M 171.8 172.1 172.8 173.0 1.3 0.5 0.1 1.2 0.6 0.4
West urban .................................. M 179.7 179.8 180.3 180.7 1.7 0.5 0.2 1.9 0.3 0.3
Size A - More than 1,500,000 ............ M 180.7 180.8 181.3 181.7 2.0 0.5 0.2 2.2 0.3 0.3
Size B/C - 50,000 to 1,500,000 (3)......... M 112.0 112.2 112.5 112.7 1.2 0.4 0.2 1.5 0.4 0.3
Size classes
A (4)...................................... M 162.6 162.7 163.4 163.8 1.8 0.7 0.2 2.1 0.5 0.4
B/C (3).................................... M 110.7 110.9 111.0 111.3 0.6 0.4 0.3 1.1 0.3 0.1
D ......................................... M 171.7 172.0 172.5 172.9 1.1 0.5 0.2 1.5 0.5 0.3
Selected local areas(5)
Chicago-Gary-Kenosha, IL-IN-WI .............. M 175.9 175.1 175.5 175.8 1.2 0.4 0.2 2.0 -0.2 0.2
Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange County, CA ..... M 174.7 175.0 175.6 176.3 2.8 0.7 0.4 2.6 0.5 0.3
New York-Northern N.J.-Long Island,
NY-NJ-CT-PA ............................. M 186.5 187.1 188.1 188.6 2.7 0.8 0.3 2.5 0.9 0.5
Boston-Brockton-Nashua, MA-NH-ME-CT ......... 1 - 194.1 - 197.7 3.0 1.9 - - - -
Cleveland-Akron, OH ......................... 1 - 164.5 - 165.7 -0.5 0.7 - - - -
Dallas-Fort Worth, TX ....................... 1 - 172.6 - 172.9 0.2 0.2 - - - -
Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV (6)........ 1 - 113.1 - 113.7 1.9 0.5 - - - -
Atlanta, GA ................................. 2 176.5 - 176.8 - - - - 1.5 0.2 -
Detroit-Ann Arbor-Flint, MI ................. 2 173.2 - 175.0 - - - - 3.3 1.0 -
Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX .............. 2 156.7 - 158.0 - - - - 0.6 0.8 -
Miami-Fort Lauderdale, FL ................... 2 172.0 - 172.8 - - - - 1.1 0.5 -
Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City,
PA-NJ-DE-MD ............................. 2 184.7 - 186.7 - - - - 2.5 1.1 -
San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA .......... 2 189.1 - 189.3 - - - - 1.4 0.1 -
Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA ................ 2 184.1 - 184.8 - - - - 1.8 0.4 -
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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