Visualized: U.S. Inflation by Category in 2025
Description
Visualized: U.S. Inflation by Category in 2025
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Key Takeaways
- Inflation remains uneven across categories, with food items like beef and essentials such as car maintenance showing the strongest upward pressure.
- Service-related costs, including home insurance, healthcare, and utilities, continue to rise faster than most goods.
Even as headline inflation stabilizes, the cost of everyday items and services in the U.S. continues to shift unevenly across categories. For example, while beef has gotten more expensive, eggs have gotten cheaper.
In this graphic, we break down inflation by product type, revealing where Americans are seeing the biggest price changes.
Data & Discussion
The data for this visualization comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), accessed via USAFacts. It details year-over-year inflation rates from Sept. 2024 to Sept. 2025, based on CPI-U (a measure of the average change over time in prices paid by urban consumers).
| Product | Inflation (%) |
|---|---|
 Beef & veal | 14.7 |
 Car maintenance & repair | 7.7 |
 Home insurance | 7.5 |
 Tobacco products | 6.9 |
 Sugar & sweets | 6.7 |
 Electricity | 6.4 |
 Hospital services | 5.8 |
 Water & trash collection services | 4.8 |
 Postage & delivery services | 4.7 |
 Tools and home hardware | 4.3 |
 Health insurance | 4.2 |
 Furniture & bedding | 3.8 |
 Pets (incl. products & services) | 3.5 |
 Rent | 3.4 |
 Car insurance | 3.1 |
 School tuition | 2.9 |
 Fresh vegetables | 2.8 |
 Seafood | 2.1 |
 Jewelry & watches | 2.0 |
 Public transportation | 1.8 |
 New & used cars | 1.7 |
 Pork | 1.6 |
 Poultry | 1.4 |
 Footwear | 1.3 |
 Appliances | 1.3 |
 Medical equipment & supplies | 0.8 |
 Dairy products | 0.7 |
 Medicinal drugs | 0.6 |
 Alcoholic beverages | 0.3 |
 Sporting goods |
