US Households Pour $38,423 a Year Into Housing and Food, Biggest Share of Budgets in 15 Years

American households are now spending nearly half of their budgets on housing and food, the largest share in 15 years. The average household spent $81,905 in 2025, up 4.3% from the year before, with $27,790 going to housing and $10,633 going to food, says the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Together, the two categories ate up $38,423, or 46.9% of total spending, and cost households $1,988 more than in 2024. Food and housing were the only major spending categories with statistically significant increases from 2024 to 2025. Housing spending rose 5.8%, mostly because of an 8% jump in shelter costs, while spending on rented dwellings climbed 10.8%. Food spending rose 4.6%, driven in part by an 11.7% increase in spending on meats, poultry, fish and eggs.

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