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Average Price Data, AP (APU0000701111) · Flour, white, all purpose, per lb. (453.6 gm), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted

What does a pound of flour cost in the US?

The average price of a pound of white all-purpose flour was $0.536 in the month ended .

Average price of a pound of white all-purpose flour, U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, each month

January 1980 to October 2026Not seasonally adjusted, as published

Average price of a pound of white all-purpose flour, U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, each month (January 1980 to October 2026), recessions shaded
Average price of a pound of white all-purpose flour, U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, each month (October 2016 to October 2026), recessions shaded
Average price of a pound of white all-purpose flour, U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, each month (October 2024 to October 2026)

Shaded bands are US recessions as the National Bureau of Economic Research dates them: to , to , to , to , to , to .

Shaded bands are US recessions as the National Bureau of Economic Research dates them: to .

Average price of a pound of white all-purpose flour, U.S. city average, change from a year earlier, each month (ours)

January 1980 to October 2026Ours, from the published values

Average price of a pound of white all-purpose flour, U.S. city average, change from a year earlier, each month (ours) (January 1980 to October 2026), recessions shaded
Average price of a pound of white all-purpose flour, U.S. city average, change from a year earlier, each month (ours) (October 2016 to October 2026), recessions shaded
Average price of a pound of white all-purpose flour, U.S. city average, change from a year earlier, each month (ours) (October 2024 to October 2026)

Shaded bands are US recessions as the National Bureau of Economic Research dates them: to , to , to , to , to , to .

Shaded bands are US recessions as the National Bureau of Economic Research dates them: to .

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MeasureLatestThe month beforeA year earlierFive years earlierTen years earlier
Month
Average price of a pound of white all-purpose flour, U.S. city average$0.536$0.545$0.563$0.396$0.523
Change over a yearn/a−3.2%−1.7%−12.4%+2.3%

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Observed .

Right now

The average price of a pound of white all-purpose flour was $0.536 in October 2026, the lowest since December 2022.

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ChangeOurs

PeriodThenChange
One month$0.545 in −1.7%
Three months$0.543 in −1.3%
Twelve monthsNo value for
Five years$0.396 in +35.4%
Ten years$0.523 in +2.5%

In historyOurs

The average price of a pound of white all-purpose flour of $0.536 in was higher than in 500 of the 559 other months since , the same in 0 and lower in 59.

Highest since : $0.575 in . Lowest since : $0.198 in .

AverageOurs

Average since : $0.3588 (ours, a plain mean of the 560 months).

Understanding the average price of a pound of white all-purpose flour

Where it stands today

The average price of a pound of white all-purpose flour was $0.536 in October 2026.

What does the average price of a pound of white all-purpose flour measure?

This is the average price of a pound of white all-purpose flour in the United States: a series of the average price data of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), for the U.S. city average and not seasonally adjusted. BLS publishes it each month, with the Consumer Price Index, in dollars to three decimals.

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BLS names the item "Flour, white, all purpose, per lb. (453.6 gm)" and the series APU0000701111.

What 500metrics adds: the change over one month, three months, a year and five years, the highest and lowest price since the series begins, how the change over a year ranks among the items in its group on the average prices page, and every month of the series in a table by year.

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What was the average price of a pound of white all-purpose flour in each month?One row for each year since 1980, newest first

Each row is a year and each column a month. A dash is a month with no price: before the series began, after its newest month, or a month BLS published no price for (the limits name those). The highest and lowest prices of the whole series are in bold.

Average price of a pound of white all-purpose flour, U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, by month and year, newest year first (US dollars per pound; the highest and lowest prices in bold)
YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
20260.5650.5490.5490.5430.5440.5440.5430.5480.5450.536––
20250.5610.5610.5650.5570.5620.5740.5570.5570.563–0.5520.554
20240.5540.5580.5650.5740.5700.5750.5740.5740.5730.5660.5520.548
20230.5400.5500.5460.5420.5440.5510.5640.5660.5650.5620.5410.538
20220.4240.4280.4480.4550.4560.4980.5330.5490.5560.5340.5240.522
20210.4460.4400.4360.4370.4390.3560.3680.3710.3820.3960.3860.388
20200.4380.4380.442–0.4610.4680.4610.4590.4510.4520.4450.450
20190.4390.4430.4450.4340.4540.4480.4540.4500.4490.4320.4170.429
20180.4710.4700.4680.4720.4690.4690.4680.4640.4670.4530.4330.437
20170.5300.5260.5310.5160.5170.5070.5120.5120.5050.5000.4690.462
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YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
20160.5220.5220.5120.5210.5250.5290.5430.5460.5470.5230.5070.503
20150.5450.5250.5180.5090.5200.5190.5150.5240.5170.5110.4960.501
20140.5430.5550.5510.5470.5320.5320.5270.5310.5130.5010.5150.511
20130.5240.5240.4990.5220.5300.5330.5300.5290.5220.5160.5170.513
20120.5280.5280.5190.5150.5130.5190.5160.5310.5280.5090.4970.500
20110.4770.4940.5080.5000.5210.5280.5330.5370.5500.5420.5170.510
20100.4910.4960.4790.4730.4850.4840.4840.4890.4830.4720.4460.441
20090.5170.5090.5030.4850.5150.5160.5190.5170.5100.5000.4580.464
20080.4210.4550.4890.5180.5340.5290.5440.5390.5320.5210.4940.504
20070.3460.3560.3570.3540.3510.3500.3530.3550.3600.3550.3880.398
20060.3280.3260.3260.3200.3310.3360.3390.3410.3410.3210.3170.318
20050.3250.3260.3260.3220.3290.3370.3400.3410.3290.3110.2980.303
20040.3070.3020.3000.2830.2970.3120.3240.3240.3070.2990.2910.285
20030.3160.2990.3190.3180.3270.3270.3280.3290.3170.2880.2850.287
20020.3190.3180.3100.3070.3230.3250.3200.3220.3220.2890.2910.292
20010.3040.3070.3120.2760.3100.3130.3150.3180.2960.3090.2860.282
20000.2860.2670.2850.2830.3020.3050.3050.3040.3030.3060.2620.275
19990.2970.2930.2890.2830.3060.3030.3080.3110.3100.2880.2720.267
19980.2990.2970.3020.2980.3080.3050.3070.3100.3050.3010.2870.279
19970.3090.3080.3050.3040.3100.3100.3090.3070.3050.2940.2830.279
19960.2620.2620.2740.2660.2810.2970.3080.3140.3080.2930.2950.292
19950.2380.2420.2420.2360.2440.2440.2480.2550.2560.2540.2430.243
19940.2330.2300.2260.2260.2290.2360.2360.2380.2370.2320.2250.225
19930.2420.2420.2380.2300.2390.2380.2370.2380.2320.2280.2270.222
19920.2410.2440.2390.2380.2450.2440.2520.2560.2490.2410.2340.233
19910.2440.2350.2350.2370.2350.2370.2390.2380.2320.2300.2180.223
19900.2530.2490.2520.2510.2540.2590.2600.2550.2490.2440.2350.236
19890.2280.2330.2340.2380.2410.2460.2540.2580.2560.2550.2480.244
19880.2020.1990.2020.1990.2080.2100.2150.2270.2330.2310.2200.223
19870.2020.2110.2020.2020.2080.2080.2130.2110.2070.2030.2000.198
19860.2070.2090.2080.2060.2110.2140.2140.2150.2110.2080.2000.198
19850.2120.2130.2120.2110.2150.2160.2160.2160.2120.2110.2070.202
19840.2130.2160.2160.2150.2150.2170.2190.2150.2120.2110.2080.204
19830.2170.2140.2110.2130.2160.2230.2230.2270.2230.2190.2170.211
19820.2240.2260.2230.2200.2280.2270.2320.2270.2230.2210.2160.216
19810.2170.2220.2240.2250.2270.2280.2280.2300.2250.2260.2210.218
19800.2030.2050.2110.2060.2070.2100.2140.2150.2140.2120.2110.211

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What this number cannot tell you

  • The price is an average of the retail prices that BLS collects from a sample of sellers, for the U.S. city average. It is not a price index. BLS measures the change of prices with the Consumer Price Index, and the change over a year on this page, worked out from the averages, can differ from the change of the index.
  • BLS did not collect prices for October 2025 because of the lapse in appropriations, so the page has no price for that month and the chart shows a gap.
  • BLS published no price for 1 other month: April 2020.
  • The changes, the ranks and the highest and lowest prices are ours, worked out from the values BLS publishes. A change is in percent.
  • BLS.gov cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from BLS.gov.

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How to cite this

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Average Price Data, Flour, white, all purpose, per lb. (453.6 gm), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, through October 2026. Compiled by 500metrics, "What does a pound of flour cost in the US?", https://500metrics.com/average-prices/flour.

Recession dates from the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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