United States Department of Transportation

Average Household Expenditures as Percent of Total Household Expenditures: 2024

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This pie chart illustrates shares of household expenditures in 2024. Expenditures are broken out as follows: Housing (33.4 percent), Transportation (17.0 percent), Food (12.9 percent), Personal insurance and pensions (12.5 percent), Other (11.7 percent), Healthcare (7.9 percent), and Entertainment (4.6 percent). An inset breaks Transportation out by the following costs: Vehicle purchases (5,337 dollars), Other vehicle expenses (4,206 dollars), Gasoline and other fuels (2,645 dollars), and Public and other t

Dataset Excel:

T 1-7 Select Waterway Transportation Characteristics and Performance Measures.xlsx (22.83 KB)

Description:

This pie chart is from the 2025 Transportation Statistics Annual Report.

Source:

BTS, data from BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey 2024.

Publications:

Transportation Statistics Annual Report Figure 1-7