# Concrete cost calculator: Material Price Series

> The median published figure in the Material Price Series is 2.30 percent across 5 sources' own pages (range 1.40 to 5.20 percent), read 11 September 2026.

DrawScheduleWorks · https://drawscheduleworks.com/datasets/material-price-series/ · computed 2026-10-05

**Median published figure:** 2.3 % (range 1.4 to 5.2 %; 5 sources with a figure; 5 of 21 sources read publish one).

5 of the 21 named sources read in full publish a figure; 16 publish none, read 11 September 2026.

## By market

| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| market United States, final demand construction prices, annual | 5.2 % | 5.2 to 5.2 % | 1 |
| market Canada, residential construction costs, annual | 2.3 % | 2.3 to 2.3 % | 1 |
| market Great Britain, construction material prices, annual | 3 % | 3 to 3 % | 1 |
| market Australia, building construction output prices, quarter | 1.4 % | 1.4 to 1.4 % | 1 |
| market euro area, industrial producer prices, annual | 1.6 % | 1.6 to 1.6 % | 1 |

## Every figure, with its source

One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read.

| Source | Figure | Breakdown | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| [US BLS, Producer Price Indexes](https://www.bls.gov/ppi/) | 5.2 % | United States, final demand construction prices, annual | 2026-09-10 |
| [GOV.UK, Construction building materials commentary (December 2025)](https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/building-materials-and-components-statistics-december-2025/construction-building-materials-commentary-december-2025) | 3 % | Great Britain, construction material prices, annual | 2026-09-11 |
| [Statistics Canada, Building construction price indexes (The Daily)](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/260724/dq260724b-eng.htm) | 2.3 % | Canada, residential construction costs, annual | 2026-09-11 |
| [Eurostat, Short-term business statistics](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/short-term-business-statistics) | 1.6 % | euro area, industrial producer prices, annual | 2026-09-11 |
| [ABS, Producer Price Indexes Australia (latest release)](https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/economy/price-indexes-and-inflation/producer-price-indexes-australia/latest-release) | 1.4 % | Australia, building construction output prices, quarter | 2026-09-11 |

## The sentence each figure was read from (5)

- [US BLS, Producer Price Indexes](https://www.bls.gov/ppi/), read 2026-09-10: "Final demand construction prices were up 5.2 percent."
- [GOV.UK, Construction building materials commentary (December 2025)](https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/building-materials-and-components-statistics-december-2025/construction-building-materials-commentary-december-2025), read 2026-09-11: "increased by 3.0% in November 2025 compared with November 2024"
- [Statistics Canada, Building construction price indexes (The Daily)](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/260724/dq260724b-eng.htm), read 2026-09-11: "Year over year, construction costs for residential buildings in the 15-census metropolitan area (CMA) composite rose 2.3% in the second quarter, while non-residential building construction costs saw an increase of 3.5%."
- [Eurostat, Short-term business statistics](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/short-term-business-statistics), read 2026-09-11: "Industrial producer prices up by 1.6% in the euro area"
- [ABS, Producer Price Indexes Australia (latest release)](https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/economy/price-indexes-and-inflation/producer-price-indexes-australia/latest-release), read 2026-09-11: "Output of Building construction rose 1.4%, driven by House construction."

## Read in full, publishes no figure

- [US BLS, Producer Price Index news release](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ppi.nr0.htm), read 2026-09-11: every candidate on the page was refused
- [US BLS, PPI and construction fact sheet](https://www.bls.gov/ppi/factsheets/producer-price-index-and-construction.htm), read 2026-09-11: every candidate on the page was refused
- [US BLS, PPI tables](https://www.bls.gov/ppi/tables/), read 2026-09-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [US BLS, Construction industry at a glance](https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag327.htm), read 2026-09-11: every candidate on the page was refused
- [US Census Bureau, Construction spending (C30)](https://www.census.gov/construction/c30/c30index.html), read 2026-09-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [US Census Bureau, New residential construction](https://www.census.gov/construction/nrc/index.html), read 2026-09-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [ONS, Construction industry](https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/constructionindustry), read 2026-09-11: every candidate on the page was refused
- [ONS, Construction output in Great Britain (latest bulletin)](https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/constructionindustry/bulletins/constructionoutputingreatbritain/latest), read 2026-09-11: every candidate on the page was refused
- [ONS, Price movements in construction materials and plant hire](https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/articles/pricemovementsinconstructionmaterialsandplanthireuk/2019to2021), read 2026-09-11: every candidate on the page was refused
- [ONS, Construction statistics sources and outputs](https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/constructionindustry/methodologies/constructionstatisticssourcesandoutputs), read 2026-09-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [GOV.UK, Building materials and components monthly statistics](https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/building-materials-and-components-monthly-statistics-2012), read 2026-09-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Statistics Canada, Building construction price indexes table 18-10-0289-01](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1810028901), read 2026-09-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Statistics Canada, Industrial product price index table](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1810013501), read 2026-09-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [ABS, Building approvals Australia (latest release)](https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/industry/building-and-construction/building-approvals-australia/latest-release), read 2026-09-11: every candidate on the page was refused
- [FRED, PPI ready-mix concrete (WPU1322)](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WPU1322), read 2026-09-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [bls.gov](https://www.bls.gov/ppi/tables/), read 2026-09-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page

## Methodology

Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 5 of the 21 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 16 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in % (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 123 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): one series per material per market per month, taken from the producer price index that measures it - BLS PPI for the US, the DBT/ONS construction material indices for GB, StatCan's BCPI and IPPI for Canada, the ABS PPI for Australia - rebased onto one index so the same material can be read across four economies, which no statistical office does because each publishes only its own. Two derived figures follow: the material's twelve-month movement ranked against the others (what actually got more expensive), and the RATIO between the material index and the construction output price index, which says whether a rise was passed on or absorbed.

## Sources

- [US BLS, Producer Price Indexes](https://www.bls.gov/ppi/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [US BLS, Producer Price Index news release](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ppi.nr0.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [US BLS, PPI and construction fact sheet](https://www.bls.gov/ppi/factsheets/producer-price-index-and-construction.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [US BLS, PPI tables](https://www.bls.gov/ppi/tables/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [US BLS, Construction industry at a glance](https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag327.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [US Census Bureau, Construction spending (C30)](https://www.census.gov/construction/c30/c30index.html) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [US Census Bureau, New residential construction](https://www.census.gov/construction/nrc/index.html) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [ONS, Construction industry](https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/constructionindustry) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [ONS, Construction output in Great Britain (latest bulletin)](https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/constructionindustry/bulletins/constructionoutputingreatbritain/latest) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [ONS, Price movements in construction materials and plant hire](https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/articles/pricemovementsinconstructionmaterialsandplanthireuk/2019to2021) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [ONS, Construction statistics sources and outputs](https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/constructionindustry/methodologies/constructionstatisticssourcesandoutputs) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [GOV.UK, Building materials and components monthly statistics](https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/building-materials-and-components-monthly-statistics-2012) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [GOV.UK, Construction building materials commentary (December 2025)](https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/building-materials-and-components-statistics-december-2025/construction-building-materials-commentary-december-2025) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Statistics Canada, Building construction price indexes (The Daily)](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/260724/dq260724b-eng.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Statistics Canada, Building construction price indexes table 18-10-0289-01](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1810028901) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Statistics Canada, Industrial product price index table](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1810013501) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [ABS, Producer Price Indexes Australia (latest release)](https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/economy/price-indexes-and-inflation/producer-price-indexes-australia/latest-release) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [ABS, Building approvals Australia (latest release)](https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/industry/building-and-construction/building-approvals-australia/latest-release) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [FRED, PPI ready-mix concrete (WPU1322)](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WPU1322) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Eurostat, Short-term business statistics](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/short-term-business-statistics) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [bls.gov](https://www.bls.gov/ppi/tables/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)

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- The median published figure in the Material Price Series is 2.30 percent across 5 sources' own pages (range 1.40 to 5.20 percent), read 11 September 2026.
- 5 of the 21 named sources read in full publish a figure; 16 publish none, read 11 September 2026.
- Material Price Series, market United States, final demand construction prices, annual: median 5.20 percent across 1 source, read 11 September 2026.
- Material Price Series, market Canada, residential construction costs, annual: median 2.30 percent across 1 source, read 11 September 2026.
- Material Price Series, market Great Britain, construction material prices, annual: median 3 percent across 1 source, read 11 September 2026.
- Material Price Series, market Australia, building construction output prices, quarter: median 1.40 percent across 1 source, read 11 September 2026.
- Material Price Series, market euro area, industrial producer prices, annual: median 1.60 percent across 1 source, read 11 September 2026.

Cite as: "DrawScheduleWorks Material Price Series", updated 2026-10-05, https://drawscheduleworks.com/datasets/material-price-series/.

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