Figure 4-4 Average Household Expenditures by Spending Category: 2013
Friday, September 18, 2015
| Cost (current dollars) | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Housing | 17,148 | 0.34 |
| Food | 6,602 | 0.13 |
| Apparel and services | 1,604 | 0.03 |
| Personal insurance and pensions | 5,528 | 0.11 |
| Health care | 3,631 | 0.07 |
| Other 1 | 7,583 | 0.34 |
| Transportation | 9,004 | 0.18 |
| Private vehicles | 8,466 | 0.17 |
| Vehicle purchases | 3,271 | 0.06 |
| Gasoline and motor oil | 2,611 | 0.05 |
| Other vehicle expenses | 2,584 | 0.05 |
| Public Transportation 2 | 537 | 0.01 |
| Airline | 343 | 0.01 |
| Mass transit | 76 | 0.00 |
| Ship | 50 | 0.00 |
| All Other Public Transportation | 68 | 0.00 |
| Taxi | 25 | <0.1% |
| Intercity train | 21 | <0.1% |
| Local trans. on out-of-town trips | 11 | <0.1% |
| Intercity bus | 11 | <0.1% |
| School bus | 1 | <0.1% |
| Total | 51,100 | 1.00 |
| Non-Transportation | 42,096 | 0.82 |
1 Includes alcoholic beverages, entertainment, personal care products and services, reading, education, tobacco products and smoking, miscellaneous, cash contributions and others. 2 Values for public transportation are subject to very large standard errors due to the small sample size associated with some categories.
NOTE: Totals may not sum due to rounding. Average includes households without vehicles and households that may have more than one vehicle.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Expenditure Survey, Consumer Expenditures in 2013 dated February 2015, available at http://www.bls.gov/cex/ and from personal communication as of April 2015.