Figure 4-4 Average Household Expenditures by Spending Category: 2014
Thursday, September 8, 2016
| Cost (current dollars) | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Housing | $17,798 | 33.3% |
| Food | $6,759 | 12.6% |
| Apparel and services | $1,786 | 3.3% |
| Personal insurance and pensions | $5,726 | 10.7% |
| Health care | $4,290 | 8.0% |
| Other 1 | $8,063 | 15.1% |
| Transportation | $9,073 | 17.0% |
| Private vehicles | $8,492 | 15.9% |
| Vehicle purchases | $3,301 | 6.2% |
| Gasoline and motor oil | $2,468 | 4.6% |
| Other vehicle expenses | $2,723 | 5.1% |
| Public Transportation 2 | $581 | 1.1% |
| Airline | $370 | 0.7% |
| Mass transit | $82 | 0.2% |
| Ship | $57 | 0.1% |
| All Other Public Transportation | $73 | 0.1% |
| Taxi on trips | $7 | <0.1% |
| Taxi not on trips | $22 | <0.1% |
| Intercity train | $15 | <0.1% |
| Local trans. on out-of-town trips | $13 | <0.1% |
| Intercity bus | $12 | <0.1% |
| School bus | $3 | <0.1% |
| Non-Transportation | $44,421 | 83.0% |
| Total | $53,495 | 100.0% |
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 2014, available at http://www.bls.gov/cex/ and from personal communication/public microdata sets as of February 2016.