NOTE: THIS DATA FILE WILL CHANGE! To improve accessibility of data for all users, we will convert this file from a text format to an html table by the end of June 2024. Title: Median Consumer Price Index Series ID: MEDCPIM159SFRBCLE Source: Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Release: Current Median CPI Seasonal Adjustment: Seasonally Adjusted Frequency: Monthly Units: Percent Change from Year Ago Date Range: 1983-12-01 to 2024-04-01 Last Updated: 2024-05-15 10:04 AM CDT Notes: Median Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of core inflation calculated the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and the Ohio State University. Median CPI was created as a different way to get a 'Core CPI' measure, or a better measure of underlying inflation trends. To calculate the Median CPI, the Cleveland Fed analyzes the median price change of the goods and services published by the BLS. The median price change is the price change that's right in the middle of the long list of all of the price changes. This series excludes 49.5% of the CPI components with the highest and lowest one-month price changes from each tail of the price-change distribution resulting in a Median CPI Inflation Estimate. According to research from the Cleveland Fed, the Median CPI provides a better signal of the inflation trend than either the all-items CPI or the CPI excluding food and energy. According to newer research done at the Cleveland Fed, the Median CPI is even better at PCE inflation in the near and longer term than the core PCE. For further information, visit The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (https://www.clevelandfed.org/indicators-and-data/median-cpi#background). DATE VALUE 1983-12-01 4.2692914161004000 1984-01-01 4.2558642470221300 1984-02-01 4.2293235846191800 1984-03-01 4.2553559249756100 1984-04-01 4.2259466134851005 1984-05-01 4.1949412681718600 1984-06-01 4.3712178744972405 1984-07-01 4.4557320846893490 1984-08-01 4.4386486401477800 1984-09-01 4.4086365027763390 1984-10-01 4.3072901611266800 1984-11-01 4.1169255730687100 1984-12-01 4.1080084311974100 1985-01-01 3.9597725181242700 1985-02-01 4.0398307357813100 1985-03-01 4.1056015406088200 1985-04-01 4.1072507728871600 1985-05-01 4.0996617023531900 1985-06-01 4.1325394108685300 1985-07-01 3.9418245486066300 1985-08-01 3.8393663132433100 1985-09-01 3.7538971034198703 1985-10-01 3.7510830683529197 1985-11-01 3.9828010378482500 1985-12-01 3.9461385852988000 1986-01-01 4.0587810331979200 1986-02-01 3.8568380377776300 1986-03-01 3.8297318125608504 1986-04-01 3.8028658213344197 1986-05-01 3.7133401651287206 1986-06-01 3.5853853457205900 1986-07-01 3.7182780519710200 1986-08-01 3.7034986480491696 1986-09-01 3.7494854420781203 1986-10-01 3.8084447555620597 1986-11-01 3.7436824419600600 1986-12-01 3.8142257642835404 1987-01-01 3.8913716652414303 1987-02-01 3.9054227330592900 1987-03-01 3.8565337993846400 1987-04-01 3.9032139376327097 1987-05-01 4.0929745530837100 1987-06-01 4.0487645126938900 1987-07-01 4.0627754119265200 1987-08-01 4.0653077180686100 1987-09-01 4.1670003126874610 1987-10-01 4.1348079380553800 1987-11-01 4.0279819176491900 1987-12-01 3.9368447667368103 1988-01-01 3.7676559264498100 1988-02-01 3.7316951912340897 1988-03-01 3.7832036542770000 1988-04-01 3.7835861648787500 1988-05-01 3.6927155441542200 1988-06-01 3.8430884452026200 1988-07-01 3.8748387725665100 1988-08-01 4.0376870938652300 1988-09-01 4.0196923207731490 1988-10-01 4.0603419873398000 1988-11-01 4.0293541670782800 1988-12-01 4.1224613453765295 1989-01-01 4.2362280003642500 1989-02-01 4.4284592063273100 1989-03-01 4.4796115925345195 1989-04-01 4.4913723473034800 1989-05-01 4.6561846742379600 1989-06-01 4.5877805899206905 1989-07-01 4.6908646334582500 1989-08-01 4.4883717089590190 1989-09-01 4.3601028944200095 1989-10-01 4.4345750551942000 1989-11-01 4.5359642962540000 1989-12-01 4.5208762876605600 1990-01-01 4.5652639702567190 1990-02-01 4.5463759648802995 1990-03-01 4.5642636310649700 1990-04-01 4.6003620267039500 1990-05-01 4.4820545543279700 1990-06-01 4.6295459467221995 1990-07-01 4.5872971836673700 1990-08-01 4.8224531025889100 1990-09-01 4.7668982550078900 1990-10-01 4.7156420156270900 1990-11-01 4.6695773596213690 1990-12-01 4.7770341673317100 1991-01-01 4.8057573101512490 1991-02-01 4.7534827848504410 1991-03-01 4.6202505501683000 1991-04-01 4.4581415035209100 1991-05-01 4.5000810839346500 1991-06-01 4.2726318275611000 1991-07-01 4.2013458272125210 1991-08-01 3.9872700602934700 1991-09-01 4.0919298692126290 1991-10-01 3.9060983686832300 1991-11-01 3.9625702416048700 1991-12-01 3.7617204714365000 1992-01-01 3.4426535644365197 1992-02-01 3.2956158718193000 1992-03-01 3.3065531064121500 1992-04-01 3.2275666249554504 1992-05-01 3.0893538423102200 1992-06-01 3.2044361725825500 1992-07-01 2.9824953384122206 1992-08-01 2.9011808709567704 1992-09-01 2.7180599174674700 1992-10-01 2.8384396704420400 1992-11-01 2.7545914090800100 1992-12-01 2.6903043629983300 1993-01-01 2.8330652956893600 1993-02-01 2.8086225865611802 1993-03-01 2.6347984244713905 1993-04-01 2.7730683950681203 1993-05-01 2.7874850363143198 1993-06-01 2.6434399646367797 1993-07-01 2.6359067463835700 1993-08-01 2.6703220067921100 1993-09-01 2.7096560035239703 1993-10-01 2.7027240270120800 1993-11-01 2.7325201039438000 1993-12-01 2.8111528394319600 1994-01-01 2.7503985586765403 1994-02-01 2.8593439644668300 1994-03-01 2.8991870686489300 1994-04-01 2.7679673052976000 1994-05-01 2.7618367785733096 1994-06-01 2.7907036530654000 1994-07-01 2.8227090956632900 1994-08-01 2.9050630360662800 1994-09-01 3.0227349175413000 1994-10-01 2.8994402785112596 1994-11-01 2.9617864434446000 1994-12-01 2.8271671000515495 1995-01-01 2.9493717638166896 1995-02-01 2.9271386576245098 1995-03-01 3.0181995797115200 1995-04-01 3.1135000175860800 1995-05-01 3.1682566514630300 1995-06-01 3.1015726954991605 1995-07-01 3.1823076312471197 1995-08-01 3.1343115807073400 1995-09-01 3.0941403286414100 1995-10-01 3.1783685912823100 1995-11-01 3.0353812018901096 1995-12-01 3.1503455580763400 1996-01-01 3.1164220537478700 1996-02-01 3.0564694318886400 1996-03-01 3.0436526571013400 1996-04-01 3.0000413976887500 1996-05-01 2.9483728920626495 1996-06-01 2.9829036931812400 1996-07-01 2.9965252806174503 1996-08-01 2.9446170383323502 1996-09-01 2.9335595316664302 1996-10-01 2.9048451242783795 1996-11-01 2.9736915363495200 1996-12-01 2.9418990257354904 1997-01-01 2.8797291436898100 1997-02-01 2.8566412861876804 1997-03-01 2.8435502381692004 1997-04-01 2.8314458697997300 1997-05-01 2.8062616002801500 1997-06-01 2.8051946432547300 1997-07-01 2.7075393600570100 1997-08-01 2.7070473058075297 1997-09-01 2.6572699586324000 1997-10-01 2.6239135571565700 1997-11-01 2.5585244189872998 1997-12-01 2.6308712073251500 1998-01-01 2.5805635273048200 1998-02-01 2.6245369212792595 1998-03-01 2.5820611448385700 1998-04-01 2.5226991021539000 1998-05-01 2.5561104926841800 1998-06-01 2.6081122017021400 1998-07-01 2.7071992559929900 1998-08-01 2.7951335809213200 1998-09-01 2.8479731464638998 1998-10-01 2.9192450319804900 1998-11-01 2.8761458868573397 1998-12-01 2.7862941293725700 1999-01-01 2.7130304100867497 1999-02-01 2.6185111095227405 1999-03-01 2.5682573869662900 1999-04-01 2.6017241497090100 1999-05-01 2.4913233296762500 1999-06-01 2.3291575651382300 1999-07-01 2.2610735361553400 1999-08-01 2.1774202712137000 1999-09-01 2.1206550943476500 1999-10-01 1.9843196336651698 1999-11-01 1.9838818931384500 1999-12-01 2.0344642069414900 2000-01-01 2.2252893157050497 2000-02-01 2.3123928218431700 2000-03-01 2.4432557320945200 2000-04-01 2.4100144294852100 2000-05-01 2.5050390407484104 2000-06-01 2.6690298429096200 2000-07-01 2.7557475315311404 2000-08-01 2.7986570018352400 2000-09-01 2.8476945374392004 2000-10-01 2.9322198226663400 2000-11-01 2.9710889290945000 2000-12-01 3.0289582106380700 2001-01-01 3.0475170099590200 2001-02-01 3.0517939932702003 2001-03-01 3.0164638416414498 2001-04-01 3.0890160128058897 2001-05-01 3.1429493001186697 2001-06-01 3.1745017701843703 2001-07-01 3.0908979014628600 2001-08-01 3.1682187334922700 2001-09-01 3.1443130464256600 2001-10-01 3.2676160732796100 2001-11-01 3.3337282264703303 2001-12-01 3.2650215878350597 2002-01-01 3.1556672210819800 2002-02-01 3.2012587697844300 2002-03-01 3.1912728018461700 2002-04-01 3.1521611528076297 2002-05-01 3.0619557696113000 2002-06-01 2.9770101224738700 2002-07-01 2.9610806547536500 2002-08-01 2.8346165212758100 2002-09-01 2.8292197568519300 2002-10-01 2.6741184274585900 2002-11-01 2.5465161398702500 2002-12-01 2.5912172914359200 2003-01-01 2.5428221515349800 2003-02-01 2.4257357457031900 2003-03-01 2.2796939775217004 2003-04-01 2.1017308002577700 2003-05-01 1.9893673520697799 2003-06-01 1.8742750831973702 2003-07-01 1.9095804596669999 2003-08-01 1.9155309528492002 2003-09-01 1.8578433352946397 2003-10-01 1.8397370020909900 2003-11-01 1.7791972009376000 2003-12-01 1.6787151630667498 2004-01-01 1.6819224376923000 2004-02-01 1.7594402702347600 2004-03-01 1.8933222603176200 2004-04-01 2.0594746449812600 2004-05-01 2.2379603243700497 2004-06-01 2.3719513227286897 2004-07-01 2.2968730329438600 2004-08-01 2.3397339659633600 2004-09-01 2.3501245666826200 2004-10-01 2.3971754011020296 2004-11-01 2.4219107117861500 2004-12-01 2.4316672662650700 2005-01-01 2.5314782662470896 2005-02-01 2.5639132928861200 2005-03-01 2.4939989764779305 2005-04-01 2.4571167648397996 2005-05-01 2.4530599374705400 2005-06-01 2.3611709796362796 2005-07-01 2.4659786754114300 2005-08-01 2.4117792980849400 2005-09-01 2.5673846023169400 2005-10-01 2.6230900173012097 2005-11-01 2.7367392678155698 2005-12-01 2.7610391438082300 2006-01-01 2.7164324850370100 2006-02-01 2.6137890400315800 2006-03-01 2.7127076288862000 2006-04-01 2.7787505862609400 2006-05-01 2.8712471029812097 2006-06-01 3.0031770446692096 2006-07-01 3.0052833661114104 2006-08-01 3.2046142955134904 2006-09-01 3.0446476761844200 2006-10-01 3.0711298584159600 2006-11-01 3.0868013229752500 2006-12-01 3.1304616406014705 2007-01-01 3.1371492549126000 2007-02-01 3.3350300669366497 2007-03-01 3.3020876209185697 2007-04-01 3.2585871163577793 2007-05-01 3.0975827415310198 2007-06-01 3.1032587999717998 2007-07-01 3.0844175744357596 2007-08-01 2.8821659951963700 2007-09-01 3.0154034061911500 2007-10-01 2.9974911018066903 2007-11-01 3.0349611353668300 2007-12-01 3.0564266691677200 2008-01-01 3.0830122716651203 2008-02-01 2.9513586850234104 2008-03-01 2.9807172143976803 2008-04-01 2.9700383683260600 2008-05-01 2.9791952307687700 2008-06-01 3.0442579718923600 2008-07-01 3.1407096606278100 2008-08-01 3.2040476481744100 2008-09-01 3.1599894269239504 2008-10-01 3.0569547538318800 2008-11-01 2.9283353528812600 2008-12-01 2.7076013015802300 2009-01-01 2.6343935572793700 2009-02-01 2.5748413773406300 2009-03-01 2.4804417325900600 2009-04-01 2.4486598114032296 2009-05-01 2.3507434511550000 2009-06-01 2.0764117636638897 2009-07-01 1.7548796995730900 2009-08-01 1.6459499078894197 2009-09-01 1.4585156212326700 2009-10-01 1.3744678667916297 2009-11-01 1.2560086542785702 2009-12-01 1.2641876674568200 2010-01-01 1.1210507844449500 2010-02-01 0.9335097442925819 2010-03-01 0.7505836204389829 2010-04-01 0.6337415100528879 2010-05-01 0.5490684621517250 2010-06-01 0.5912926655262660 2010-07-01 0.6335969277228900 2010-08-01 0.5344250397888000 2010-09-01 0.5859098639254160 2010-10-01 0.5805840711646361 2010-11-01 0.6472404018315060 2010-12-01 0.7247694652055660 2011-01-01 0.8566343380834280 2011-02-01 1.0993775042346101 2011-03-01 1.2693357970504600 2011-04-01 1.4190466655756202 2011-05-01 1.5885804036075601 2011-06-01 1.6437563061091598 2011-07-01 1.8027046279778000 2011-08-01 2.0319535564469900 2011-09-01 2.1116412269893700 2011-10-01 2.1867456987040300 2011-11-01 2.2310769925880400 2011-12-01 2.3131351970716403 2012-01-01 2.3899194574851200 2012-02-01 2.2954655717984500 2012-03-01 2.3519412406597400 2012-04-01 2.3549366524246600 2012-05-01 2.3069783436866300 2012-06-01 2.3065881520583300 2012-07-01 2.2688197785112103 2012-08-01 2.2063218111154600 2012-09-01 2.1892393717096500 2012-10-01 2.1769430351110200 2012-11-01 2.1957465676501102 2012-12-01 2.1470638294051900 2013-01-01 2.1093511141707000 2013-02-01 2.1733131643243900 2013-03-01 2.0725995481641200 2013-04-01 2.0562650224468000 2013-05-01 2.0749981882713900 2013-06-01 2.0929400040462100 2013-07-01 2.0862277085684800 2013-08-01 2.0632888112931600 2013-09-01 2.0587606476130103 2013-10-01 1.9991863310769902 2013-11-01 2.0434944630834098 2013-12-01 2.1311303321557500 2014-01-01 2.1032980735726100 2014-02-01 2.0949302566537300 2014-03-01 2.2320710136050100 2014-04-01 2.2425838019211497 2014-05-01 2.2916953749778197 2014-06-01 2.2225106897168600 2014-07-01 2.2559975783605200 2014-08-01 2.2228793266838798 2014-09-01 2.1981195147613400 2014-10-01 2.3040274610926400 2014-11-01 2.2749679510791800 2014-12-01 2.2366645774253100 2015-01-01 2.1984162416814197 2015-02-01 2.1653786791682403 2015-03-01 2.1300808011333900 2015-04-01 2.1921311676852198 2015-05-01 2.1884485483353300 2015-06-01 2.3270281798148700 2015-07-01 2.2867317390906403 2015-08-01 2.2770136700090498 2015-09-01 2.3654722499543100 2015-10-01 2.3533225135331700 2015-11-01 2.3540873786700000 2015-12-01 2.3082649284860803 2016-01-01 2.3716799033658200 2016-02-01 2.4203529506962003 2016-03-01 2.4027275628442797 2016-04-01 2.4739656271642203 2016-05-01 2.5386588871601200 2016-06-01 2.4662660557932300 2016-07-01 2.5137426434457700 2016-08-01 2.6063099399615200 2016-09-01 2.5647020525131100 2016-10-01 2.5425199580191498 2016-11-01 2.5586622002228903 2016-12-01 2.5757393244725897 2017-01-01 2.6361225143792404 2017-02-01 2.6988575293401200 2017-03-01 2.6730672799067700 2017-04-01 2.4839460789521700 2017-05-01 2.3869176498200600 2017-06-01 2.3696407700734400 2017-07-01 2.3389537102243000 2017-08-01 2.3000411754423100 2017-09-01 2.3309238412232003 2017-10-01 2.3648772755716600 2017-11-01 2.3616764493516804 2017-12-01 2.4380512980070900 2018-01-01 2.4984064825050100 2018-02-01 2.3920317533480300 2018-03-01 2.3960091615169903 2018-04-01 2.5111101937241900 2018-05-01 2.5834949393143800 2018-06-01 2.6449784433070200 2018-07-01 2.6440905642532800 2018-08-01 2.6459264316827800 2018-09-01 2.6012058102395000 2018-10-01 2.6163278480680896 2018-11-01 2.7245202490009200 2018-12-01 2.7208635813406500 2019-01-01 2.6150508339805900 2019-02-01 2.6955881371575600 2019-03-01 2.7997817234578903 2019-04-01 2.7912432329518597 2019-05-01 2.7559672253097100 2019-06-01 2.7835420334021403 2019-07-01 2.8744786196065700 2019-08-01 2.9020133644580800 2019-09-01 2.9163047199768997 2019-10-01 2.9216914533382300 2019-11-01 2.8847471518131900 2019-12-01 2.8525034273235500 2020-01-01 2.9229947600608797 2020-02-01 2.9142389541239700 2020-03-01 2.8939315098087400 2020-04-01 2.8288271154222300 2020-05-01 2.8691633840850700 2020-06-01 2.7575405283325900 2020-07-01 2.8340248130809300 2020-08-01 2.8288874855824300 2020-09-01 2.7101381443416200 2020-10-01 2.6365821380910400 2020-11-01 2.4767302337329400 2020-12-01 2.3826212832150300 2021-01-01 2.1690062726756696 2021-02-01 2.1622777777870800 2021-03-01 2.1196972492140600 2021-04-01 2.1907109034998000 2021-05-01 2.2083284437846200 2021-06-01 2.3843628453833300 2021-07-01 2.2940859280603703 2021-08-01 2.4169994508034702 2021-09-01 2.7355000365131700 2021-10-01 3.1299115889878304 2021-11-01 3.5086088766464400 2021-12-01 3.7986752255749300 2022-01-01 4.2628564274372710 2022-02-01 4.5610051374164410 2022-03-01 4.8762728023200800 2022-04-01 5.2115257147960600 2022-05-01 5.5725695230269805 2022-06-01 5.9271451913355010 2022-07-01 6.1773276782519600 2022-08-01 6.5112154964094290 2022-09-01 6.7450934775751690 2022-10-01 6.7544402177017310 2022-11-01 6.7539899514546210 2022-12-01 6.8963446843441200 2023-01-01 6.9521526312316110 2023-02-01 7.0774646320765200 2023-03-01 6.9424120208507690 2023-04-01 6.7964871964392400 2023-05-01 6.5662600057499600 2023-06-01 6.2644605715390710 2023-07-01 5.9677234300566510 2023-08-01 5.6613967112809410 2023-09-01 5.4539128009544400 2023-10-01 5.1870140988253794 2023-11-01 5.1210762206056200 2023-12-01 4.9221621644168300 2024-01-01 4.8515568796197600 2024-02-01 4.5785942560268490 2024-03-01 4.5537890962134510 2024-04-01 4.4760364359939000