About Inflation by City
Radif Partners loads every published CPI-U index of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the U.S. city average since 1913, the 23 metropolitan areas, the four census regions and the two city-size classes, with the eight major spending groups and energy for each, and computes what a dollar, a salary or a benefit is worth between any two published months. A month the BLS did not publish, such as October 2025 after the lapse in appropriations, stays empty and the calculator says so. We sell nothing and ask for no e-mail.
Why this site exists
Most inflation calculators work on one series, the national average, and many work on years only. The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes far more: an index for 23 metropolitan areas, 4 regions and 2 city-size classes, and inside each one the main spending groups. Those local indexes are spread over hundreds of tables and series codes, some published monthly, most every other month. When we looked at the pages that rank for an inflation calculator, one still showed a logo reading 1913-2023 and a New York page that stopped in April 2023; another asked users to type the price index themselves. None said what happened to October 2025.
This site does better than the first Google result (the calculator of the BLS) because it computes the value of a dollar, a salary or a pension to the month in each of the 23 metro areas, 4 regions and 2 size classes published by the BLS, and by spending group (shelter, food, energy, medical care and more), where the official tool gives only the national average; and it explains the October 2025 gap instead of refusing the calculation in silence: the missing month is never filled, the nearest published month is offered and named.
Who publishes it
The site is published by Radif Partners, a company that builds calculators on public data. It is not a government agency and is not affiliated with the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Social Security Administration or any other public body. The BLS does not endorse it, and BLS.gov cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from BLS.gov. Radif Partners sells no financial product and gives no personal advice.
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What we rely on
The CPI files of the BLS (download.bls.gov), its Handbook of Methods, its notes on the 2025 lapse in appropriations and its release schedule; for Social Security, the press releases and cost-of-living tables of the SSA and section 415(i) of title 42 of the U.S. Code. The method page names every series and every test; the editorial policy explains how corrections are made.
What the site leaves out
It does not compare price levels between cities, does not forecast inflation and does not cover the producer price index, the PCE price index used by the Federal Reserve, or the 9 census divisions. A figure for 2027 appears only once the body that sets it has published it.
Contact
contact@inflationbycity.com, for corrections and sources. We answer questions about an index or a formula, not about your contract, your lease or your benefits.