South:
$3.25 per Burger
The cost of a homemade cheeseburger in the South region, tracked monthly using BLS Consumer Price Index average price data.
Price History
Ingredient Breakdown
Monthly History
| Month | Burger Cost | Month-over-Month | Year-over-Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2026 | $3.25 | ↑ +0.9% | ↑ +15.7% |
| April 2026 | $3.22 | ↑ +1.9% | ↑ +17.5% |
| March 2026 | $3.16 | ↑ +1.3% | ↑ +16.2% |
| February 2026 | $3.12 | ↓ -0.9% | ↑ +16.9% |
| January 2026 | $3.15 | ↑ +1.6% | ↑ +18.0% |
| December 2025 | $3.10 | → +0.3% | ↑ +15.2% |
| November 2025 | $3.09 | ↑ +4.0% | ↑ +13.6% |
| September 2025 | $2.97 | ↑ +1.7% | ↑ +11.7% |
| July 2025 | $2.92 | ↑ +3.5% | ↑ +11.9% |
| June 2025 | $2.82 | → +0.4% | ↑ +8.1% |
| May 2025 | $2.81 | ↑ +2.5% | ↑ +9.8% |
| April 2025 | $2.74 | ↑ +0.7% | ↑ +5.4% |
| March 2025 | $2.72 | ↑ +1.9% | ↑ +5.0% |
| February 2025 | $2.67 | → 0.0% | ↑ +4.7% |
| January 2025 | $2.67 | ↓ -0.7% | ↑ +3.5% |
| December 2024 | $2.69 | ↓ -1.1% | ↑ +5.1% |
| November 2024 | $2.72 | ↑ +0.7% | ↑ +3.8% |
| October 2024 | $2.70 | ↑ +1.5% | ↑ +1.9% |
| September 2024 | $2.66 | → -0.4% | ↑ +4.7% |
| August 2024 | $2.67 | ↑ +2.3% | ↑ +5.1% |
| July 2024 | $2.61 | → 0.0% | ↑ +2.8% |
| June 2024 | $2.61 | ↑ +1.9% | ↑ +3.6% |
| May 2024 | $2.56 | ↓ -1.5% | ↑ +2.4% |
| April 2024 | $2.60 | → +0.4% | ↑ +6.6% |
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index Average Price Data (public domain).
Frequently Asked Questions
A homemade cheeseburger costs $3.25 in the South, based on current BLS retail ingredient prices. This is 3.0% below the national average.
Cheeseburger ingredient costs in the South have changed +15.7% year-over-year. The 12-month average burger cost is $3.03, tracked using official BLS Consumer Price Index data.
Burgernomics tracks burger costs across all four BLS regions (Northeast, Midwest, South, and West). Visit our regions page for the full comparison of current burger prices and trends.
The South record above pulls directly from BLS Consumer Price Index and per-chain published menu prices. What follows is the per-entity context — how South sits in the broader U.S. regional fast-food cheeseburger prices distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the BLS Consumer Price Index and per-chain published menu prices portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for South’s peers within U.S. census regions. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.