"The app includes prices for many of your basic needs, from food to housing to transportation, spanning a decade of data points. The ABC Data Team has launched the Price Tracker, an interactive tool that provides up-to-date information on the price of household necessities in your area. It displays regional prices of essentials for the 100 largest U.S. metro areas over the last decade. Simply search for your area to see how the cost of living has changed for households like yours. Then select groceries, housing or utilities to drill down into each category of basic expenses."
"The ABC Price Tracker can help you answer questions like: How have rent and other housing expenses changed over the last 10 years? Which grocery items have seen the biggest price hikes nationwide? When was the last time gas cost less than $3 per gallon in my area? The interactive tool will automatically update with the latest data available, so you can give your sticker shock a gut check."
The ABC Price Tracker provides interactive, up-to-date price information for household necessities across the 100 largest U.S. metro areas using a decade of data points. Users can search a specific metro area to view how the cost of living has changed for households, and can drill down into groceries, housing, utilities, and transportation categories. The tool highlights trends like rent changes, grocery item price hikes, and historical gasoline price milestones. The dataset refreshes automatically with the latest available data to reflect current regional prices and support local cost comparisons.
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