National CPI-U Context
336.94 CPI-U index (1982-84=100)
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, CPI
Source date: 2026-09 • Resolution: National monthly CPI-U context
Data Sources
Source Transparency
CostPressureIQ prioritizes reproducible public datasets that can be updated at national scale and mapped consistently across state, county, and city pages. This page exposes the current public source snapshot instead of treating data freshness as a backend-only detail.
Verified Current Sources
Pressure Pulse Provenance
Separate from annual scoring
State Electricity Context
Hawaii +22.0%
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration
Source date: 2026-07 • Resolution: State-level monthly residential electricity price
County/state covered-job wage source dates and inherited geography labels are shown on individual location pulse cards.
Source Snapshot
Current Public Data State
Snapshot Date
2024-12-31
Methodology
v1.1-acs5-2024
Scored Geographies
34,160
34,519 canonical locations loaded
Component Rows
170,800
Five PressureComponents per scored geography
States
51 scored snapshots from 52 loaded locations.
Counties
3,136 scored snapshots from 3,213 loaded locations.
Cities
30,973 scored snapshots from 31,254 loaded locations.
The annual score layer is anchored to the latest complete national ACS release. Current electricity, wage, and CPI context is displayed separately with its own source date and geographic resolution; it does not restate the annual score.
Coverage limitation: the annual EIA residential-electricity series used by v1.1 covers the 50 states and D.C., not a comparable Puerto Rico series. Puerto Rico routes remain canonical and show an availability notice rather than a substituted score or ranking.
Primary Inputs
Current Production Sources
U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year
Annual baseline source for household income, renter burden, real-estate taxes, and owner-cost burden. v1.1 compares non-overlapping 2020–2024 and 2015–2019 windows.
U.S. Energy Information Administration
State residential-electricity price data supports utility pressure at state resolution and the separate current Pressure Pulse. The annual EIA series supports the 50 states and D.C.; Puerto Rico remains canonical but is transparently excluded from the v1.1 score pending a comparable reproducible series.
Bureau of Labor Statistics QCEW
Current county and state covered-job wage momentum appears in the non-scored Pressure Pulse; it is not household-income data.
Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI
National consumer-inflation context appears separately from the annual score with its published reference period.
SimpleMaps US Cities
Production geography source used to normalize state, county, and city routes, parent relationships, coordinates, and population context.
Bridge Proxies
Signals That Are Intentionally Labeled As Proxies
Insurance Pressure
Currently represented through ACS owner-cost burden proxy and movement. It does not yet claim nationally consistent premium-level insurance data.
Utility Pressure
Uses state residential-electricity price data. County and city pages state that source resolution explicitly rather than claiming a local utility bill.
Essential Housing Burden
Displayed as Essential Housing Burden and based on ACS renter-burden data, not a complete grocery, healthcare, transportation, or childcare basket.
Refresh Cadence
Update Process And Readiness
Geography tables are ingested from local source files and normalized to canonical state, county, and city route structures.
Cost pressure snapshots are rebuilt from ACS releases using repeatable ingestion scripts and a versioned methodology tag. The current loaded tag is v1.1-acs5-2024.
Source refreshes are validated before publication. A failed or incomplete source run keeps the last verified public record rather than replacing it with an estimate.
Latest recorded run: current_pressure_pulse on 2026-10-18 with 3,325 records upserted. Operational details remain in protected logs; public pages report source periods, coverage, resolution, and verified status instead.
Content Path
Where To Go Next
Once sources are reviewed, continue into live geography pages to evaluate how source-driven signals translate into sustainability and pressure scores across states, counties, and cities.