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Groceries

Whole Chicken

Average retail price for one pound of whole fresh chicken, U.S. city average.

Current $2.03 $ / pound
vs Jan 2019 +37.5%
Source BLS
Data quality Live API

National average

U.S. city average across all reporting metros

Latest

$2.03↑ 36.3% · 5Y

from $1.49 · 2021-05

How to read this

  • Prices, not inflation rates. The chart shows the actual sticker price you'd encounter, not a year-over-year percentage. We compute the percent change against January 2019 as a stable pre-COVID anchor.
  • Granularity matters. BLS publishes this series at U.S. and four-region level. State views apply regional cost-of-living parities — they are estimates, not direct measurements.
  • Updated: roughly monthly, with a 1–2 month lag at the most recent end of the series.