US metro-area CPI inflation panel (10 CBSAs)
Monthly US metro-area CPI inflation panel, 1914-12 onward, for the 10 Core-Based Statistical Areas whose CPI the St. Louis Fed redistributes live (New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Dallas, Atlanta, Miami, San Francisco, Seattle): CPI-U all items, not seasonally adjusted, 1982-84=100, with 12-month percent change (defined for bimonthly metros on same-parity months), 1-month change for the two monthly metros, per-month inflation ranks and i1..i4 heat tiers. Bimonthly metros publish every other month — off-months are honest nulls, never imputed. Upstream: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics via FRED keyless fredgraph.csv (CUURA101/102/103/207/208/316/319/320/422/423SA0). One row per metro x month; join keys: metro_code, year_month, country_code=USA. Who joins this: online shops join demand on metro + month, subscription businesses join regional churn, sales teams weight pipeline by local cost pressure.
- Rows
- 12,032
- Columns
- 13
- Source cadence
- Monthly
- Last refreshed
- Sep 29, 2026
- Theme
- economy
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| month | date | First day of the calendar month. (unit: date) |
| year_month | string | Calendar month as YYYY-MM (panel join key). (unit: string) |
| metro_code | string | Short metro identifier (panel join key): new_york, philadelphia, boston, chicago, detroit, dallas, atlanta, miami, san_francisco, seattle. (unit: string) |
| metro_name | string | BLS Core-Based Statistical Area name as published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (unit: string) |
| country | string | Country name (shared normalization layer). (unit: string) |
| country_code | string | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code (USA). (unit: string) |
| pub_grain | string | BLS publication grain detected from the metro's recent history (trailing 24 months): 'monthly' (New York, Chicago) or 'bimonthly' (the other eight — off-months are null). Several metros published monthly in earlier decades; grain always reflects the current schedule. (unit: string) |
| cpi_index | float | Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), all items, not seasonally adjusted, 1982-84=100 (BLS release 'Consumer Price Index'). Null in a bimonthly metro's off-months, in 2025-10 (BLS published no October 2025 CPI — federal appropriations lapse), and sporadically before ~1941 (irregular early publication) — never imputed. (unit: index (1982-84=100)) |
| cpi_yoy_pct | float | 12-month percent change of cpi_index versus the same-parity observation a year earlier (percent). Null until a 12-months-ago observation exists. (unit: percent) |
| cpi_mom_pct | float | 1-month percent change of cpi_index (percent). Monthly metros only; null for bimonthly metros — a 2-month span is not a monthly change. (unit: percent) |
| yoy_rank | integer | Rank of cpi_yoy_pct within the month across metros (1 = hottest inflation). Null when fewer than 2 metros report a YoY value that month. (unit: rank) |
| inflation_tier | string | Within-month inflation heat quartile from yoy_rank: i1 (coolest) to i4 (hottest). (unit: string) |
| row_hash | string | Deterministic 16-hex sha256 of metro_code + year_month + cpi_index (idempotency key). (unit: string) |
First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.
| month | year_month | metro_code | metro_name | country | country_code | pub_grain | cpi_index | cpi_yoy_pct | cpi_mom_pct | yoy_rank | inflation_tier | row_hash |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1917-12-01 | 1917-12 | atlanta | Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA | United States | USA | bimonthly | 15.2 | — | — | — | i<NA> | 4a149867853fc08a |
| 1918-01-01 | 1918-01 | atlanta | Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA | United States | USA | bimonthly | — | — | — | — | — | 3b288fb9ad58229e |
| 1918-02-01 | 1918-02 | atlanta | Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA | United States | USA | bimonthly | — | — | — | — | — | 985217159401fadc |
| 1918-03-01 | 1918-03 | atlanta | Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA | United States | USA | bimonthly | — | — | — | — | — | 5ecde110cb819676 |
| 1918-04-01 | 1918-04 | atlanta | Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA | United States | USA | bimonthly | — | — | — | — | — | d4241daebb84258b |
| 1918-05-01 | 1918-05 | atlanta | Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA | United States | USA | bimonthly | — | — | — | — | — | 1b4b92ed400ad2cb |
| 1918-06-01 | 1918-06 | atlanta | Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA | United States | USA | bimonthly | — | — | — | — | — | ef3066e2424d8e85 |
| 1918-07-01 | 1918-07 | atlanta | Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA | United States | USA | bimonthly | — | — | — | — | — | ad7f4da872a9a22c |
| 1918-08-01 | 1918-08 | atlanta | Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA | United States | USA | bimonthly | — | — | — | — | — | c24d45a778efa5fc |
| 1918-09-01 | 1918-09 | atlanta | Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA | United States | USA | bimonthly | — | — | — | — | — | 326c552db5907434 |
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curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/us_metro_cpi_intel/us_metro_cpi_monthly" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/us_metro_cpi_intel/us_metro_cpi_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/us_metro_cpi_intel/us_metro_cpi_monthly
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@misc{dz_us_metro_cpi_intel_us_metro_cpi_monthly_f6e0fdee,
title = {{US metro-area CPI inflation panel (10 CBSAs)}},
author = {{US Metro-Area CPI Inflation (BLS via FRED, keyless)}},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Datazimuts},
howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/us_metro_cpi_intel/us_metro_cpi_monthly?snapshot=20260929T122203Z-f6e0fdee4af9}},
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