Egg prices in 2017
Month-by-month Bureau of Labor Statistics figures for 2017.
2017 average
$1.47
12 priced months
2017 high
$1.82
December 2017
2017 low
$1.33
June 2017
2017 summary
The average price across all 12 months of 2017 was $1.47 a dozen.
2017 is the first year in the table, so there is no earlier annual average to compare. 2017 has the 9th highest of the 10 yearly averages.
The lowest price was in June 2017 at $1.33, and the highest was in December 2017 at $1.82. Between its lowest and highest readings, 2017 covered a range of $0.48 (36.3% from bottom to top).
The largest monthly increase was between November 2017 and December 2017, up $0.31 (20.5%). Every monthly decrease was under $0.20; the largest was from January 2017 to February 2017, down $0.14 (8.4%). Of the 11 pairs of consecutive months with prices within 2017, 7 were increases and 4 were decreases.
Between January 2017 ($1.60) and December 2017 ($1.82), the change was up $0.22 (13.5%). Every single one of the 12 months stayed below $2.00 per dozen.
Monthly chart for 2017
Tracing 2017 from left to right shows the net upward path from $1.60 in January 2017 to $1.82 in December 2017.
Month-by-month table for 2017
All twelve monthly averages for 2017 are listed below with dollar and percent changes from the previous month. Changes use the exact prices, so a change can differ by a cent from the difference of the two rounded prices shown.
| Month | Price | Change from previous month |
|---|---|---|
| January 2017 | $1.60 | — |
| February 2017 | $1.46 | down $0.14 (8.4%) |
| March 2017 | $1.40 | down $0.06 (4.1%) |
| April 2017 | $1.41 | up $0.01 (0.4%) |
| May 2017 | $1.41 | up $0.01 (0.4%) |
| June 2017 | $1.33 | down $0.08 (5.8%) |
| July 2017 | $1.33 | up less than $0.01 (0.1%) |
| August 2017 | $1.37 | up $0.03 (2.6%) |
| September 2017 | $1.42 | up $0.06 (4.0%) |
| October 2017 | $1.54 | up $0.12 (8.3%) |
| November 2017 | $1.51 | down $0.03 (2.2%) |
| December 2017 | $1.82 | up $0.31 (20.5%) |