The Basket Index™

A family-of-four basket of everyday essentials in Ohio costs about $2,433 a month — that's $125 more a month than a year ago.

That's roughly $1,499 more over a full year — driven most by gasoline (regular unleaded), tomatoes (field grown) and coffee (ground roast).

A fixed basket of everyday essentials priced with published federal averages — an estimate of cost, not a survey of real purchases. How this is calculated.