August 2026

Poultry price index

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

315.498index level, August 2026
+0.47%change over 12 months
+0.57%change over 1 month

Last 24 months

MonthIndex (1982–84=100)Change from previous month
August 2024308.907+1.00%
September 2024308.669-0.08%
October 2024308.363-0.10%
November 2024306.669-0.55%
December 2024307.108+0.14%
January 2025306.298-0.26%
February 2025305.256-0.34%
March 2025308.498+1.06%
April 2025311.422+0.95%
May 2025313.020+0.51%
June 2025315.693+0.85%
July 2025315.235-0.15%
August 2025314.008-0.39%
September 2025313.126-0.28%
November 2025310.592not available
December 2025311.509+0.30%
January 2026311.307-0.06%
February 2026312.117+0.26%
March 2026313.234+0.36%
April 2026313.084-0.05%
May 2026317.098+1.28%
June 2026315.294-0.57%
July 2026313.722-0.50%
August 2026315.498+0.57%

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 +0.47% over 12 months means the index stood at 314.008 in August 2025 and moved to 315.498 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 CUUR0000SEFF, item code SEFF.