Granite price index: what the figure shows and where it stops

The granite card on our home page works like the limestone one, with one important difference: the series behind it has stopped.

What the index measures

It is the same kind of figure. A producer price index follows the average price that producers receive for their output, measured against a base period set to 100. The granite series is published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for crushed and broken granite mining, and the base is December 1983. Our note on the limestone price index explains how to read it.

The last reading

The final reading is 631.5, for June 2025. That is 13.5% above June 2024, when it stood at 556.2. Most of the rise came in a single month: the index moved from 571.3 in December 2024 to 628.5 in January 2025, then held between about 616 and 631 through June.

Why it ends

The BLS public data service now reports that this series does not exist, so it appears to have been discontinued. FRED, the data service of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, keeps the history up to June 2025. We do not know the reason, and the related crushed-stone series we checked also end in June 2025.

How we show it

On our home page we show the last published value, its date, and a note that the series has not been updated since. That lets you see the figure for what it is. If a replacement series appears, we will look at using it.

Reading it with care

As with limestone, this is a US benchmark and not a Grand CCIL price. It is also a snapshot of one month in the past, so it says where granite prices stood then and does not describe the market today.