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Pumpkin prices this week
−$0.26 vs last week +2.6% vs a year ago
Carving pumpkin, each · USDA-reported store count 6,812 · ads for the week of Oct 17, 2026
What this number means: the average advertised sale price in grocery-store weekly ads across the US, not the price at any one store, and not the everyday shelf price. Pumpkins, carving pumpkin, each, per pumpkin; ads for the week of October 17, 2026.
Definition and sources
- How it's averaged: each advertised price is weighted by the number of stores USDA reports running it. That store count is summed across qualifying ads, so a store running two qualifying ads may count twice.
- USDA label: “PUMPKINS” / “MARKED LARGE”.
- Data week: ads for the week of October 17, 2026, published by USDA on October 23, 2026. USDA publishes these weekly, on Fridays; this site checks for new reports every 30 minutes.
- Coverage: USDA-reported store count 6,812, 7 of 8 regions. History since 2014.
- BLS comparison: we don’t show a closely matching BLS average-price series for this item.
- Sources: USDA AMS “Weekly Grocery Store Specialty Crops Feature Activity” (report 3324). How we check the data.
Buying for Halloween? See when pumpkins ads have been lower-priced before Halloween.
Pumpkin prices by region
Week of Oct 17, 2026, cheapest first. Bar: price relative to the priciest region. Chip: last 4 weeks vs the same weeks a year earlier.
The US figure reflects both prices and which stores and regions advertised, so it can move differently from every region.
The last 52 weeks
52-week low $5.31, high $7.18.
Pumpkin prices since 2014
Good time to buy?
In October, buying in the week you see the ad has beaten waiting a week: picked from earlier years only, that advice saved money in 10 of 10 later years, 7.2% of the price on average (a week with no ad counts against waiting).
The line is set each week from the same season in the previous 3 years, scaled to recent prices; both results come from tests that only use data available at the time. Check a store price · How these are tested.
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Monthly data table
| Month | Ad price |
|---|---|
| 2026-10 | $5.76 |
| 2026-09 | $5.52 |
| 2025-10 | $6.01 |
| 2025-09 | $5.74 |
| 2025-08 | $6.16 |
| 2024-10 | $6.09 |
| 2024-09 | $5.71 |
| 2024-08 | $7.24 |
| 2023-10 | $5.68 |
| 2023-09 | $6.24 |
| 2022-10 | $5.44 |
| 2022-09 | $5.35 |
| 2021-10 | $5.13 |
| 2021-09 | $5.04 |
| 2021-08 | $6.99 |
| 2020-10 | $3.97 |
| 2020-09 | $4.24 |
| 2020-08 | $5.00 |
| 2019-10 | $4.26 |
| 2019-09 | $4.47 |
| 2018-10 | $4.21 |
| 2018-09 | $4.05 |
| 2018-08 | $5.00 |
| 2017-10 | $4.09 |
| 2017-09 | $4.29 |
| 2017-08 | $4.99 |
| 2016-10 | $4.32 |
| 2016-09 | $4.35 |
| 2015-10 | $4.27 |
| 2015-09 | $4.84 |
| 2014-10 | $3.79 |
| 2014-09 | $4.31 |
| 2014-08 | $3.76 |
| 2014-01 | $7.99 |