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August 2026

Potatoes price index

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

458.665index level, August 2026
+3.57%change over 12 months
+2.61%change over 1 month

Last 24 months

MonthIndex (1982–84=100)Change from previous month
August 2024433.413-0.29%
September 2024432.503-0.21%
October 2024423.629-2.05%
November 2024402.500-4.99%
December 2024405.794+0.82%
January 2025418.032+3.02%
February 2025420.014+0.47%
March 2025417.178-0.68%
April 2025418.958+0.43%
May 2025427.212+1.97%
June 2025433.034+1.36%
July 2025432.357-0.16%
August 2025442.859+2.43%
September 2025448.499+1.27%
November 2025387.484not available
December 2025391.939+1.15%
January 2026408.484+4.22%
February 2026410.708+0.54%
March 2026398.877-2.88%
April 2026406.574+1.93%
May 2026424.560+4.42%
June 2026438.996+3.40%
July 2026447.006+1.82%
August 2026458.665+2.61%

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 +3.57% over 12 months means the index stood at 442.859 in August 2025 and moved to 458.665 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 CUUR0000SEFL01, item code SEFL01.