Final-user natural gas price: residential: U.S. average (USD/thousand cubic feet) - United States - EIA - Monthly
This series is part of the dataset: Final-user gas prices (US)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In the United States, the average price of natural gas delivered to residential consumers stood at 26.45 USD per thousand cubic feet in July 2026, compared to 24.09 in June. This constitutes a gain of 9.80 percent.
Sample. There are 547 observations in the monthly time series displayed in the plot above. The series covers the time span extending from January 1981 to July 2026.
History. Check out a few descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: the average price of natural gas delivered to residential consumers attained a maximum of 26.45 USD per thousand cubic feet in July 2026; it reached its minimum of 3.94 USD per thousand cubic feet in January 1981; it had an average value of 10.43 USD per thousand cubic feet.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/thousand cubic feet |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-31 | 19.7300 |
| 2026-06-30 | 24.0900 |
| 2026-07-31 | 26.4500 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | U.S. average price of natural gas delivered to residential consumers |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Price |
| Data type | Price |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Current prices |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Unit | USD/thousand cubic feet |
| Source | U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) |
| Source type | Government agency |
| Data licence | Public domain |
| Other information | Not available |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LM1 |
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