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Average price per pound of 100% ground beef.
Ground Beef (100% Beef) costs about $6.83 a lb right now — 14% more than a year ago.
Ground Beef (100% Beef) has increased 14.1% over the past 12 months, currently at $6.83 per lb (up 1.2% month-over-month). Its all-time high in this dataset was $6.90 per lb in April 2026.
United States vs Texas vs Dallas–Fort Worth.
How ground beef (100% beef) fits into a typical monthly basket.
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The most recent national average price of ground beef (100% beef) tracked by Basket Index is $6.83 per lb. This figure is sourced from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and updated monthly.
Over the past 12 months, the price of ground beef (100% beef) is 14.1% more than it was a year ago, and it moved 1.2% up from the previous month.
In the time period Basket Index tracks, the historical high was $6.90 per lb in April 2026, and the historical low was $3.87 per lb in February 2020.
A standard Family of 4 spends roughly $68 per month on ground beef (100% beef) — about 2.6% of their tracked household basket.
Ground beef (100% beef) price data comes directly from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. We publish the source series ID on the Methodology page so every figure can be reproduced from the original government dataset.
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A scheduled job pulls the latest observation from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics once per day. Monthly observations are published with a short publication lag from the source. See /item/ground-beef for the most recent figure.