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August 2026

Apples price index

The Bureau of Labor Statistics measures the change in what households pay for apples. The figures below are for the month of August 2026.

394.366index level, August 2026
+5.40%change over 12 months
-0.95%change over 1 month

Last 24 months

MonthIndex (1982–84=100)Change from previous month
August 2024341.338+0.95%
September 2024343.623+0.67%
October 2024345.978+0.69%
November 2024338.614-2.13%
December 2024343.966+1.58%
January 2025349.050+1.48%
February 2025352.577+1.01%
March 2025354.028+0.41%
April 2025354.635+0.17%
May 2025358.298+1.03%
June 2025362.831+1.27%
July 2025358.486-1.20%
August 2025374.160+4.37%
September 2025361.759-3.31%
November 2025345.737not available
December 2025348.309+0.74%
January 2026347.146-0.33%
February 2026358.915+3.39%
March 2026360.784+0.52%
April 2026365.485+1.30%
May 2026378.198+3.48%
June 2026388.660+2.77%
July 2026398.142+2.44%
August 2026394.366-0.95%

What an index is

Each index is a price level for one kind of food, scaled so that the average for 1982–84 equals 100. Because the starting point is arbitrary, read an index by its change over time, not by comparing the level of one item against another.

A change of +5.40% over 12 months means the index stood at 374.160 in August 2025 and moved to 394.366 in August 2026. Where a month has no value, the table says not available; no figure here is estimated.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index (CPI-U), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted. Data month: August 2026. Record: series CUUR0000SEFK01, item code SEFK01.