Serious Financial Problems from Inflation

In the last year, have you experienced serious financial problems caused by recent price increases? Percent saying "yes."

Chart: American Communities ProjectSource: The 2026 survey was conducted with SSRS Opinion Panel Omnibus survey over two weeks, September 3–6, 2026, and September 17–21, 2026, with 2,155 respondents and a margin of error of +/- 2.4 points. The ACP county-type analysis was modeled by statistician G. Elliott Morris. He turned the data into county-level estimates using a multilevel regression and poststratification model and aggregated them into the ACP’s types. Get the data