Storage cost index
This page publishes the US Bureau of Labor Statistics consumer price index for moving, storage and freight (series CUUR0000SEHP), archived in full. Between 2017-01 and 2024-10 the index rose 48.9 percent, about 5.3 percent a year. It measures how costs moved, not what a unit costs.
- 76 monthly observations
- +48.9% since 2017
- CSV and JSON
What this is, and what it is not
Every dollar figure elsewhere on this site is a publisher planning estimate. This page is the exception: it is a federal series, retrieved by series ID from the agency's public API and archived here unmodified, so you can pull the same numbers yourself and compare. How it sits alongside the rest of the model is set out in our published capacity model.
It is an index, not a price. It tells you that storage and moving costs rose 48.9 percent between 2017-01 and 2024-10 — roughly 5.3 percent a year. It cannot tell you what a 10×10 costs in your city, and nothing on this page should be read as if it could.
It rose faster than prices in general. Over the identical window the all-items index (CUUR0000SA0) rose 30 percent, so moving and storage outpaced general inflation by 18.9 percentage points. Both endpoints of that comparison are archived in the download below with the baseline series ID, so it can be reproduced against the agency rather than taken on trust.
The series also covers moving, storage and freight together. Storage is one component of it, not the whole.
The index by year
| Year | Average index | Change on the year | Months published |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 176.3 | not comparable | 12 |
| 2018 | 186 | +5.5% | 12 |
| 2019 | 194.5 | +4.6% | 12 |
| 2020 | 200.6 | +3.1% | 12 |
| 2021 | 212.8 | not comparable | 11 |
| 2022 | 227.5 | not comparable | 5 |
| 2023 | 241.3 | not comparable | 6 |
| 2024 | 255.5 | not comparable | 6 |
Calendar-year averages of the published monthly values. Where either year has fewer than twelve published months the annual change is left out rather than shown, because an average of five months and an average of twelve are not the same measurement. The month count is shown on every row.
The gap in this record
This is also the honest limit of the cost material on this site. The index shows the direction and rough pace of change up to 2024-10. The what storage costs ranges are publisher planning estimates informed by that direction, not measurements of the current market, and they carry that disclosure on every page that uses them.
What would replace them properly is a dated ledger of real quoted rents, collected on a published schedule. That does not exist here yet, and no chart on this page substitutes for it.
Download
- storage-cost-index.csv — 76 rows, one month per row
- storage-cost-index.json — the archive with series ID, retrieval date, coverage, gaps and limitations declared
Free to use with attribution to US Bureau of Labor Statistics as the originating source and a link to this page for the archive. Verify it against the agency directly: series CUUR0000SEHP at data.bls.gov.
Method and limitations
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Series ID | CUUR0000SEHP |
| Publisher | US Bureau of Labor Statistics |
| Retrieved | 2026-08-16 |
| Coverage | 2017-01 to 2024-10 |
| Observations | 76 |
| Missing months | 1 |
- A consumer price index measures change over time, not the price of a storage unit in dollars.
- The series covers moving, storage and freight together; it is not storage-only.
- It is a US city average and does not describe any single market.
- 1 month(s) in the requested range have no published value.