US household energy prices (monthly)

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Monthly US household energy price panel, 1978-11 onward: what American households pay for electricity ($/kWh), utility piped gas ($/therm) and heating oil #2 ($/gal) — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Average Price Data, redistributed keyless via FRED fredgraph.csv — with month-over-month and year-over-year percent changes per commodity. The only household home-energy-cost series in the catalog: the energy stack otherwise covers wholesale crude (WTI/Brent), wholesale gas (Henry Hub) and motor fuel, never the household utility bill. BLS caveat carried verbatim: average prices measure the price level in a month, not price change over time. Who joins this: shops model discretionary-income pressure on demand; subscription businesses read sustained energy-cost elevation as churn risk; sales teams weight territories by household cost pressure.

Source: US Household Energy Price Intelligence (BLS via FRED, keyless)
Rows: 574
Columns: 14
Source cadence: Monthly
Last refreshed: Oct 2, 2026
Theme: energy

Column	Type	Description
date	date	First day of the reference month. The panel join key (ISO date). (unit: date)
year_month	string	Reference month as YYYY-MM. (unit: string)
country	string	Country name (shared normalization layer). (unit: string)
country_code	string	ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code (USA). (unit: string)
elec_usd_kwh	float	Average price households pay for electricity, dollars per kilowatt-hour, U.S. city average (FRED APU000072610, BLS Average Price Data). Observed range 0.046 (1978-11) to 0.198 (2026-05). (unit: USD per kWh)
gas_usd_therm	float	Average price households pay for utility (piped) gas, dollars per therm, U.S. city average (FRED APU000072620, BLS Average Price Data). Observed range 0.304 (1978-11) to 1.819. (unit: USD per therm)
oil_usd_gal	float	Average price households pay for fuel oil #2, dollars per gallon, U.S. city average (FRED APU000072511, BLS Average Price Data). Observed range 0.533 (1978-11) to 5.973. (unit: USD per gallon)
elec_mom_pct	float	Electricity price month-over-month percent change (null where an endpoint is missing; BLS caveat: average prices measure the price level in a month, not price change over time). (unit: percent)
elec_yoy_pct	float	Electricity price year-over-year percent change (null where an endpoint is missing). (unit: percent)
gas_mom_pct	float	Utility gas price month-over-month percent change (null where an endpoint is missing). (unit: percent)
gas_yoy_pct	float	Utility gas price year-over-year percent change (null where an endpoint is missing). (unit: percent)
oil_mom_pct	float	Fuel oil price month-over-month percent change (null where an endpoint is missing). (unit: percent)
oil_yoy_pct	float	Fuel oil price year-over-year percent change (null where an endpoint is missing). (unit: percent)
row_hash	string	Deterministic 16-hex sha256 of month + the three prices (idempotency key). (unit: string)

First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.

date	year_month	country	country_code	elec_usd_kwh	gas_usd_therm	oil_usd_gal	elec_mom_pct	elec_yoy_pct	gas_mom_pct	gas_yoy_pct	oil_mom_pct	oil_yoy_pct	row_hash
1978-11-01	1978-11	United States	USA	0.046	0.304	0.533	—	—	—	—	—	—	6c488f5d39f86c84
1978-12-01	1978-12	United States	USA	0.046	0.309	0.545	0	—	1.645	—	2.251	—	46a5cf304f14a01f
1979-01-01	1979-01	United States	USA	0.046	0.318	0.555	0	—	2.913	—	1.835	—	68cdd34b64c46b46
1979-02-01	1979-02	United States	USA	0.047	0.319	0.577	2.174	—	0.314	—	3.964	—	7154f76042b707da
1979-03-01	1979-03	United States	USA	0.047	0.323	0.605	0	—	1.254	—	4.853	—	70c2a75ba5b700bd
1979-04-01	1979-04	United States	USA	0.048	0.322	0.627	2.128	—	-0.31	—	3.636	—	ac3cec4be3175782
1979-05-01	1979-05	United States	USA	0.049	0.338	0.656	2.083	—	4.969	—	4.625	—	fe365ecc0eaa65db
1979-06-01	1979-06	United States	USA	0.052	0.344	0.709	6.122	—	1.775	—	8.079	—	918b024d0c244f5e
1979-07-01	1979-07	United States	USA	0.053	0.35	0.752	1.923	—	1.744	—	6.065	—	ffd83d305ba4c0a5
1979-08-01	1979-08	United States	USA	0.053	0.353	0.8	0	—	0.857	—	6.383	—	c8064df6c543b9e3

Profiled Oct 2, 2026 from snapshot 20261002T010306Z-6b3b68c27a11

Measured

Completeness: 99.2%
Rows: 574
Columns: 14
Columns with gaps: 9

Rows per yeardate · 1978–2026 · 49 years

19782026

Column	Missing	Distinct	Range	Distribution
datedate	0%	514	Nov 1, 1978 → Aug 1, 2026	—
year_monthvarchar	0%	524	—	1978-111 1978-121 1979-011
countryvarchar	0%	1	—	United States574
country_codevarchar	0%	1	—	USA574
elec_usd_kwhdouble	0.35%	108	0.046 → 0.198median 0.095	12 outside 1st–99th percentile
gas_usd_thermdouble	0.35%	310	0.304 → 1.82median 0.8935	12 outside 1st–99th percentile
oil_usd_galdouble	0.35%	466	0.533 → 5.97median 1.36	12 outside 1st–99th percentile
elec_mom_pctdouble	0.87%	222	-7.5 → 10.53median 0	12 outside 1st–99th percentile
elec_yoy_pctdouble	2.6%	330	-10.1 → 22.64median 2.33	12 outside 1st–99th percentile
gas_mom_pctdouble	0.87%	603	-11.54 → 17.71median 0.1936	12 outside 1st–99th percentile
gas_yoy_pctdouble	2.6%	555	-36.93 → 61.52median 2.63	12 outside 1st–99th percentile
oil_mom_pctdouble	0.87%	517	-18.75 → 35.74median 0	12 outside 1st–99th percentile
oil_yoy_pctdouble	2.6%	624	-47.26 → 111.43median 1.88	12 outside 1st–99th percentile
row_hashvarchar	0%	603	—	003fb2dcd52e73571 012d8b10f07c7d451 01502fe39c46391b1

Point any LLM at the metadata endpoint — the documentation above is machine-readable too (JSON-LD + Croissant).

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curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/bls_household_energy_price_intel/us_household_energy_price_monthly" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'

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import requests

ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/bls_household_energy_price_intel/us_household_energy_price_monthly").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")

# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
    print(row)

API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/bls_household_energy_price_intel/us_household_energy_price_monthly

Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.

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US Household Energy Price Intelligence (BLS via FRED, keyless). (2026). US household energy prices (monthly) [Data set, snapshot 20261002T010306Z-6b3b68c27a11, sha256 6b3b68c27a11]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-10-02, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/bls_household_energy_price_intel/us_household_energy_price_monthly?snapshot=20261002T010306Z-6b3b68c27a11

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@misc{dz_bls_household_energy_price_intel_us_hous_6b3b68c2,
  title        = {{US household energy prices (monthly)}},
  author       = {{US Household Energy Price Intelligence (BLS via FRED, keyless)}},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Datazimuts},
  howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/bls_household_energy_price_intel/us_household_energy_price_monthly?snapshot=20261002T010306Z-6b3b68c27a11}},
  note         = {Snapshot 20261002T010306Z-6b3b68c27a11, sha256 6b3b68c27a112dacbcd68d49bd1fbccc577292ed3fc2319465ead1382e6eba0a; accessed 2026-10-02}
}

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