CPI Median in the United States remained unchanged at 3.10 percent in December. CPI Median in the United States averaged 3.07 percent from 1983 until 2025, reaching an all time high of 7.00 percent in February of 2023 and a record low of 0.50 percent in May of 2010. source: Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Related	Last	Previous	Unit	Reference
CPI	324.05	324.12	points	Dec 2025
Core Consumer Prices	331.86	331.07	points	Dec 2025
Core Inflation Rate YoY	2.60	2.60	percent	Dec 2025
Core Inflation Rate MoM	0.20	0.20	percent	Dec 2025
Core PCE Price Index	127.42	127.22	points	Nov 2025
Core PCE Price Index YoY	2.80	2.70	percent	Nov 2025
Core PCE Price Index MoM	0.20	0.20	percent	Nov 2025
Core PCE Prices QoQ	2.90	2.60	percent	Sep 2025
Core Producer Prices	150.25	149.27	points	Dec 2025
Core PPI MoM	0.70	0.00	percent	Dec 2025
Core PPI YoY	3.30	3.10	percent	Dec 2025
CPI Core Core YoY	2.30	2.20	percent	Dec 2025
CPI Housing Utilities	351.07	349.97	points	Dec 2025
CPI Median	3.10	3.10	percent	Dec 2025
CPI s.a	326.03	325.03	points	Dec 2025
CPI Transportation	268.63	272.62	points	Dec 2025
CPI Trimmed-Mean	3.00	2.90	percent	Dec 2025
Energy Inflation	2.30	4.20	Percent	Dec 2025
Export Prices	154.10	153.60	points	Dec 2025
Export Prices MoM	0.30	0.00	percent	Dec 2025
Export Prices YoY	3.10	3.20	percent	Dec 2025
Food Inflation	3.10	2.60	percent	Dec 2025
GDP Price Index	129.43	128.25	points	Sep 2025
Import Prices	141.40	141.20	points	Dec 2025
Import Prices MoM	0.10	-0.10	percent	Dec 2025
Import Prices YoY	0.00	-0.10	percent	Dec 2025
Consumer Inflation Expectations	3.10	3.40	percent	Jan 2026
Inflation Rate YoY	2.70	2.70	percent	Dec 2025
Inflation Rate MoM	0.30	0.30	percent	Dec 2025
Michigan 5 Year Inflation Expectations	3.40	3.30	percent	Feb 2026
Michigan Inflation Expectations	3.50	4.00	percent	Feb 2026
PCE Price Index	128.09	127.83	points	Nov 2025
PCE Price Index YoY	2.80	2.70	percent	Nov 2025
PCE Price Index MoM	0.20	0.20	percent	Nov 2025
PCE Prices QoQ	2.80	2.10	percent	Sep 2025
PPI Ex Food Energy and Trade Services	139.01	138.51	points	Dec 2025
PPI Ex Food, Energy and Trade MoM	0.40	0.20	percent	Dec 2025
PPI Ex Food, Energy and Trade YoY	3.50	3.50	percent	Dec 2025
PPI MoM	0.50	0.20	percent	Dec 2025
PPI	151.47	150.73	points	Dec 2025
PPI YoY	3.00	3.00	percent	Dec 2025
Rent Inflation	3.20	3.00	percent	Dec 2025
Services Inflation	3.30	3.20	Percent	Dec 2025

United States CPI Median

In the United States, Median CPI is the one-month inflation rate of the component whose expenditure weight is in the 50th percentile of price changes. To calculate the median CPI, the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland looks at the prices of the goods and services published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). But instead of calculating an inflation rate that is a weighted average of all of the items in the CPI, as the BLS does, the Cleveland Fed ranks the inflation rates of the components of the CPI and picks the one in the middle of the distribution—that is, the item whose expenditure weight is in the 50th percentile of the price change distribution.