Regional prices
Above normalPADD 1B (Central Atlantic) propane price
Residential and wholesale propane, EIA weekly survey (October-March)
Data through Oct 26, 2026 · source last checked Oct 31, 2026 · page revised Oct 29, 2026
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- Residential
- Wholesale
About this data
- Source
- EIA State Heating Oil and Propane Program survey
- Series
- Propane price, residential and wholesale/resale
- Basis
- Residential and wholesale/resale
- Geography
- PADD 1B (Central Atlantic)
- Unit
- $/gal
- Calculation
- Weekly survey, Oct-Mar heating season
- Last observation
- Oct 26, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly, Oct-Mar
Now $3.639/gal, 12.7% above the 5-yr median.
PADD 1B residential propane reached $3.639/gal in the week through October 26, up 5 cents from the prior week. The region sits 12.7% above the 5-yr median as the heating season opens.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $3.639/gal | $3.590/gal | +1.4% |
| Year over year | $3.639/gal | $3.229/gal | +12.7% |
| vs 5-yr median | $3.639/gal | $3.229/gal | +12.7% |
| State | Residential | vs Central Atlantic average | Wholesale |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | $3.209/gal | -43.0 cents | $1.416/gal |
| New York | $3.794/gal | +15.5 cents | $1.469/gal |
| Delaware | $3.808/gal | +16.9 cents | not surveyed |
| Maryland | $3.859/gal | +22.0 cents | $1.482/gal |
| New Jersey | $4.097/gal | +45.8 cents | $1.220/gal |
Residential prices from EIA's weekly survey for the same week. The middle column is each state's price minus the Central Atlantic residential average, per gallon. "Not surveyed" means EIA published no wholesale price for it that week.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $2.209/gal | $2.213/gal | -0.2% |
| Year over year | $2.209/gal | $2.247/gal | -1.7% |
| vs 5-yr median | $2.209/gal | $2.116/gal | +4.4% |
| Heating season | Weeks | Average | Low (week) | High (week) | Wholesale average | vs US average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 (so far) | 4 | $3.578/gal | $3.540/gal (Oct 5) | $3.639/gal (Oct 26) | $1.320/gal | +91.9 cents |
| 2025-26 | 26 | $3.354/gal | $3.212/gal (Oct 6) | $3.539/gal (Mar 30) | $1.140/gal | +80.2 cents |
| 2024-25 | 25 | $3.337/gal | $3.128/gal (Oct 21) | $3.540/gal (Mar 3) | $1.201/gal | +75.0 cents |
| 2023-24 | 26 | $3.205/gal | $3.097/gal (Oct 23) | $3.322/gal (Feb 19) | $1.056/gal | +70.8 cents |
| 2022-23 | 26 | $3.262/gal | $3.226/gal (Mar 27) | $3.293/gal (Jan 30) | $1.145/gal | +57.8 cents |
| 2021-22 | 26 | $3.327/gal | $3.129/gal (Oct 4) | $3.639/gal (Mar 14) | $1.577/gal | +55.5 cents |
Each season runs October through March. The average is the simple mean of that season's weekly readings, and the low and high name their survey week. The last column is the Central Atlantic residential average minus the US residential average over the same weeks, per gallon.
| State | Homes heating with propane (ACS 2020-2024) | Share of homes | Nearest surveyed state |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 3,549 | 1.1% | Maryland |
Previous weeks
Week of Mar 30, 2026
Residential propane in PADD 1B reads $3.539/gal in the Mar 30 survey, 4.6% above the 4-year median. Wholesale at the same date reads $1.233/gal. The residential price was up 2.1% year over year and 1.7% over the prior four weeks.
About PADD 1B (Central Atlantic) propane price
The Central Atlantic, PADD 1B, covers Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania and carries the biggest share of East Coast propane demand, concentrated upstate in New York and across Pennsylvania's rural counties rather than in the coastal cities, which run mostly on natural gas. Supply here is the most varied on the East Coast: Marcellus and Utica gas processing sit inside the region itself, import and pipeline terminals line the Delaware River and New York Harbor, and the Mariner East pipelines even carry Pennsylvania-produced propane the other direction, out to Marcus Hook for export.
That local production is why the Central Atlantic's retail-minus-wholesale spread, in the table above, tends to run tighter than New England's: a shorter average haul from source to rack. Because this sub-district carries the most East Coast volume, its reading tends to set the direction of the PADD 1 aggregate above it more than the other two sub-districts do.
New Jersey's dense suburbs and New York City itself run overwhelmingly on natural gas, so the demand behind this district's number concentrates upstate in New York and across rural Pennsylvania, a geography this aggregate figure does not show but the state pages behind it do.
The Central Atlantic is PADD 1B, the middle of the three East Coast sub-districts; what PADD 1 covers lays out all three and the states in each.
Common questions
What is the propane price in the Central Atlantic?
Central Atlantic residential propane averaged $3.639/gal in EIA's Oct 26, 2026 survey, with wholesale (rack) propane at $1.430/gal the same week. That was 90.9 cents above the US average of $2.730/gal. The survey runs weekly from October through March, and the chart above carries the full history.
Which Central Atlantic state has the cheapest propane?
In the Oct 26, 2026 survey, Pennsylvania had the lowest residential price of the five states EIA surveyed in the Central Atlantic, at $3.209/gal, and New Jersey the highest, at $4.097/gal: a spread of 88.8 cents a gallon. The table above lists every one. Delivered prices also vary from house to house with tank ownership, volume and distance from supply.
When is propane most expensive in the Central Atlantic?
In EIA's weekly survey, which runs October through March, Central Atlantic residential propane set its season high in March in three of the last five heating seasons, January in one and February in one. The season low came in October in four of the last five heating seasons and March in one. From low to high the price moved an average of 30.8 cents a season, and the seasons table above lists each high and low week. The regional wrinkle is that the Central Atlantic carries the heaviest East Coast demand, concentrated upstate in New York and across rural Pennsylvania, and draws on Marcellus gas processing as well as Gulf Coast pipeline supply. Why propane prices rise in winter has the mechanics.