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Average Price Data, AP (APU0000701312) · Rice, white, long grain, uncooked, per lb. (453.6 gm), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted

What does a pound of rice cost in the US?

The average price of a pound of uncooked white long grain rice was $1.101 in the month ended .

Average price of a pound of uncooked white long grain rice, U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, each month

January 1980 to October 2026Not seasonally adjusted, as published

Average price of a pound of uncooked white long grain rice, U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, each month (January 1980 to October 2026), recessions shaded
Average price of a pound of uncooked white long grain rice, U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, each month (October 2016 to October 2026), recessions shaded
Average price of a pound of uncooked white long grain rice, 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 uncooked white long grain rice, 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 uncooked white long grain rice, 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 uncooked white long grain rice, 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 uncooked white long grain rice, 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 .

Each point is one month of the series as the source publishes it, or a change worked out from those values (ours). The US recessions are shaded. Pointing at the chart shows the month and the value.

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MeasureLatestThe month beforeA year earlierFive years earlierTen years earlier
Month
Average price of a pound of uncooked white long grain rice, U.S. city average$1.101$1.118$1.060$0.788$0.697
Change over a yearn/a+5.5%−1.7%+2.9%+1.0%

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Observed .

Right now

The average price of a pound of uncooked white long grain rice was $1.101 in October 2026, the lowest since July 2026.

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ChangeOurs

PeriodThenChange
One month$1.118 in −1.5%
Three months$1.100 in +0.1%
Twelve monthsNo value for
Five years$0.788 in +39.7%
Ten years$0.697 in +58.0%

In historyOurs

The average price of a pound of uncooked white long grain rice of $1.101 in was higher than in 533 of the 535 other months since , the same in 0 and lower in 2.

Highest since : $1.118 in . Lowest since : $0.391 in .

AverageOurs

Average since : $0.6325 (ours, a plain mean of the 536 months).

Understanding the average price of a pound of uncooked white long grain rice

Where it stands today

The average price of a pound of uncooked white long grain rice was $1.101 in October 2026.

What does the average price of a pound of uncooked white long grain rice measure?

This is the average price of a pound of uncooked white long grain rice 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 "Rice, white, long grain, uncooked, per lb. (453.6 gm)" and the series APU0000701312.

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 uncooked white long grain rice 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 uncooked white long grain rice, 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
20261.0591.0741.0601.0761.0711.0891.1001.1111.1181.101––
20251.0081.0301.0381.0311.0671.0611.0681.0591.060–1.0651.076
20241.0001.0011.0141.0251.0021.0181.0391.0851.0781.0561.0611.032
20230.9700.9590.9820.9800.9971.0031.0060.9970.9810.9600.9920.990
20220.8320.8300.8710.9000.9090.9240.9290.9250.9390.9630.9630.971
20210.7940.7790.7720.7850.8010.7780.7820.7840.7980.7880.8440.820
20200.7160.7340.733–0.7480.7490.7720.7690.7770.7660.7910.789
20190.7300.7620.7570.7670.7610.8010.7980.7930.7970.7730.7210.714
20180.6820.6910.6820.6850.6980.6890.6900.7050.6930.6850.7110.712
20170.7000.6950.6920.6860.7260.7520.7640.7530.7410.7230.7120.711
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YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
20160.7090.7070.7110.7030.7470.7340.7400.7290.7210.6970.7030.693
20150.6920.6890.6700.6700.6760.6910.6730.6690.6620.6900.7320.711
20140.7310.7320.7330.7500.7390.7420.7580.7370.7460.7230.7170.700
20130.7150.7080.7140.7240.7020.7230.7210.7370.7410.7340.7290.735
20120.7390.7180.7000.6960.6770.6810.6810.6830.6840.6850.7040.714
20110.7420.7470.7450.7340.7670.7550.7160.7150.7190.7670.7520.729
20100.7540.7590.7640.7590.7460.7390.7490.7430.7230.7140.7100.728
20090.7970.7830.7740.7570.7730.7660.7560.7520.7600.7510.7680.751
20080.5680.5830.5840.6080.7040.7530.7950.8540.8530.8560.8200.813
20070.5630.5540.5480.5560.5440.5290.5470.5510.5460.5550.5440.551
20060.5320.5340.5340.5380.5490.5490.5610.5650.5500.5680.5550.555
20050.5970.5750.5700.5840.5520.5470.5530.5320.5440.5410.5300.524
20040.4820.4870.5040.5030.5280.5380.5600.5560.5650.5690.5720.572
20030.4410.4470.4400.4400.4290.4280.4510.4540.4610.4630.4900.482
2002––––0.4720.4700.4750.4820.4710.4660.4610.458
2001––––––––––––
20000.4990.4920.4810.490––––––––
19990.5510.5400.5440.5480.5510.5530.5500.5570.5470.5110.4880.502
19980.5460.5470.5450.5440.5410.5360.5400.5360.5440.5420.5390.543
19970.5600.5650.5640.5580.5630.5580.5640.5690.5640.5680.5720.575
19960.5520.5520.5560.5380.5480.5370.5370.5410.5400.5550.5520.546
19950.5230.5180.5110.5150.5180.5180.5190.5260.5230.5350.5350.553
19940.5150.5430.5560.5750.5620.5550.5660.5460.5340.5340.5410.534
19930.5260.5300.5250.5220.5180.5180.5270.5070.4940.4950.4900.495
19920.5160.5150.5150.5220.5240.5200.5400.5370.5420.5430.5360.525
19910.4940.4920.4980.5020.5020.5060.5030.4940.5060.5080.5170.510
19900.5010.4760.5020.4970.4960.4940.4940.4970.5050.4970.5070.491
19890.4890.4950.4880.4820.4850.4860.5140.5090.5200.5130.4970.504
19880.4460.4620.4680.4880.4970.4920.5070.5060.5030.4750.4850.484
19870.4160.4110.3940.3980.3950.3930.3910.4030.3950.3950.4050.422
19860.4560.4550.4530.4530.4510.4460.4530.4430.4340.4360.4320.434
19850.4750.4720.4760.4750.4720.4670.4710.4730.4730.4680.4660.450
19840.4840.4850.4760.4710.4710.4770.4840.4790.4780.4800.4790.472
19830.4860.4730.4680.4700.4680.4690.4750.4680.4750.4730.4740.479
19820.5450.5470.5160.5040.5080.4990.4960.4940.4910.4880.4870.482
19810.5510.5540.5630.5720.5750.5720.5740.5770.5670.5560.5500.545
19800.4840.4880.4890.5110.5100.5210.5230.5180.5170.5190.5200.539

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What do these figures leave out, and how are they cited?Limits, dates and how to cite

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 25 other months: May 2000 to April 2002 and 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, Rice, white, long grain, uncooked, per lb. (453.6 gm), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, through October 2026. Compiled by 500metrics, "What does a pound of rice cost in the US?", https://500metrics.com/average-prices/rice.

Recession dates from the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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