Coffee, As Of September 2025

Professor of Public Affairs and Economics at the University of Wisconsin • Nov 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM EST

U.S. ground-coffee prices rose 30.2% from January to September 2025, while the next CPI-related reading won’t come until November.

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Average price per pound:

Figure 1: Average price ground coffee, $/lb. (brown, left log scale), and beef steak, $/lb. (red, right log scale). Source: BLS.

Coffee is up 30.2% from January; streak is up 12.4%.

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