Guernsey’s rate of inflation has continued to decrease – with the RPI ‘all items’ rate standing at 4.6% at the end of last year.
That was 0.5% lower than it had been in September 2024 and 1.7% lower than at the end of December 2023.
The RPIX figure – which is seen as the ‘core’ rate, excluding mortgage interest payments – was 4.0% at the end of December 2024. That was 0.4% lower than in September last year, and 1.5% lower than the year before.
Overall, the items which saw their costs increase the most over the course of last year were tobacco (up 14.5%), housing (up 9.2%), and travel fares and other travel costs (up 7.7%).
Guernsey measures its rate of inflation – the rate at which prices rise – in different ways, reflecting different sectors of society.
The ‘HCIs’ refer to different household types living within the island.
They are ‘all items’ indices and they increased by between 4.1% and 5.6% over the year ending in December 2024. The largest increase was seen in the indices for owner occupied households with a mortgage. Those households saw a 5.6% increase to their cost of living last year.
Owner occupied households without a mortgage saw the lowest overall increase in the rate of inflation last year at 4.1%.
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