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Tools and equipment for house and garden inflation: annual rate by year since 1989

Annual rate, 2025
0.2%
ONS, CPI
12 months to August 2026
-1.3%
ONS series D7GY

The ONS gives an annual CPI rate for tools and equipment for house and garden (COICOP 05.5) for every year from 1989 to 2025: 37 years. In 2025 prices in this class were 0.2% higher on average than in 2024, against 3.4% for all CPI items. The highest yearly rate in the series is 12.1% in 2011; the lowest is -5.2% in 2003. The rate for this class was higher than the all-items CPI rate in 6 of the 37 years where both are published. Prices in this class fell on average in 14 years. The index (2015 = 100) stood at 100.0 in 2015 and 118.6 in 2025.

12.1%-5.2% 19892025
Every value in the official series, 1989 to 2025.

Tools and equipment for house and garden inflation by year

YearAnnual rateIndex (2015 = 100)CPI inflation that calendar year (ONS, D7G7)Difference
20250.2%118.63.4%-3.2 points
20241.3%118.42.5%-1.2 points
20235.4%116.97.3%-1.9 points
20226.8%110.99.1%-2.3 points
2021-1.0%103.92.6%-3.6 points
2020-3.0%104.90.9%-3.9 points
20190.9%108.11.8%-0.9 points
20185.5%107.22.5%+3.0 points
20172.5%101.62.7%-0.2 points
2016-0.9%99.10.7%-1.6 points
20151.3%100.00.0%+1.3 points
20143.2%98.71.5%+1.7 points
2013-1.1%95.72.6%-3.7 points
20127.4%96.82.8%+4.6 points
201112.1%90.14.5%+7.6 points
20103.3%80.43.3%–
20092.2%77.82.2%–
20080.9%76.23.6%-2.7 points
20071.2%75.52.3%-1.1 points
20060.9%74.62.3%-1.4 points
2005-2.3%74.02.1%-4.4 points
2004-1.8%75.71.3%-3.1 points
2003-5.2%77.11.4%-6.6 points
2002-1.8%81.41.3%-3.1 points
2001-1.7%82.91.2%-2.9 points
2000-1.5%84.30.8%-2.3 points
1999-2.1%85.61.3%-3.4 points
1998-1.3%87.41.6%-2.9 points
19970.3%88.61.8%-1.5 points
19960.1%88.32.4%-2.3 points
1995-0.9%88.22.6%-3.5 points
1994-0.8%89.02.0%-2.8 points
19932.4%89.72.5%-0.1 points
19923.7%87.64.2%-0.5 points
19917.7%84.57.5%+0.2 points
19905.8%78.47.0%-1.2 points
19895.1%74.15.2%-0.1 points

ONS series D7GY, index D7CM. About these tables · CSV

Latest monthly rates

Month12-month rate
August 2026-1.3%
July 20260.5%
June 2026-1.5%
May 2026-1.7%
April 2026-0.5%
March 20260.2%
February 20261.4%
January 2026-0.5%
December 2025-0.4%
November 2025-0.2%
October 20251.4%
September 20251.8%
August 20251.7%
July 2025-0.7%
June 20250.7%
May 20250.1%
April 2025-1.5%
March 2025-0.5%
February 2025-1.4%
January 20250.9%
December 2024-0.3%
November 20240.9%
October 2024-1.0%
September 20240.1%
August 20241.2%

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