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What percentage of Americans who say prices have risen are very concerned that prices will rise again in the next six months?

54.8% of Americans who say prices have risen are very concerned that prices will rise again in the next six months - about 55 in every 100, or 5 in 10. That is the figure published by the Household Pulse Survey for 2026.

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Where this number comes from

Survey
Household Pulse Survey
What it measured
HTOPS HPS 2607 (collected July 15 – August 3, 2026), item PRICECONCERN (“In the area you live and shop, how concerned are you, if at all, that prices will increase in the NEXT 6 MONTHS?”), counting responses 1=Very concerned, among adults who said prices where they live and shop had increased in the last two months (PRICECHANGE = 1), as a share of adults who answered (0.6% did not). Computed from the Census Bureau's public-use microdata with the person weight PWEIGHT; the standard error uses its 80 successive-difference replicate weights (4/80 · Σ of squared deviations). The counts and standard errors behind it reproduce the published table spending4. Census labels these estimates experimental; unweighted n = 10,483.
Population
U.S. adults who say prices have gone up where they live
Year
2026
95% confidence interval
51.96% to 57.64% (derived from the published standard error)

Work of the U.S. federal government - public domain. See the source data

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