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Food & Groceries

Value of $100 in 1962

Food & Groceries CPI data from BLS.

Year-to-present comparison

$742 in 2025 buying power for Food & Groceries

CPI 2025: 440.4 – CPI 1962: 59.4. Inflation since 1962: 641.6%.

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Other 1962 CPI baskets

Each value below drives its own “value of $100 in 1962” page.

Buying Power

1962 CPI: 59.4

Open 1962 · value of $100

Food & Groceries

1962 CPI: 59.4

Open 1962 · value of $100

Medical Care

1962 CPI: 59.4

Open 1962 · value of $100

Housing

1962 CPI: 59.4

Open 1962 · value of $100

Gasoline

1962 CPI: 59.4

Open 1962 · value of $100

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Methodology

Each page is auto-generated from data/inflation_master.json via Next.js static paths. The CPI history is sourced from official BLS tables.

Use the menu to explore every combination of category and year, or update the dataset by syncing new CSV files via python scripts/process_inflation.py.