Regional prices
Out of seasonPADD 1B (Central Atlantic) propane price
Residential and wholesale propane, EIA weekly survey (October-March)
Data through Mar 30, 2026 · source last checked Sep 2, 2026 · page revised Aug 19, 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
- Mar 30, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly, Oct-Mar
Now $3.539/gal, 4.6% above the 4-yr median. The EIA weekly price survey runs October through March; the latest reading is $3.539/gal from Mar 30, 2026. The survey resumes in October.
Central Atlantic residential propane closed the heating season at $3.539/gal on March 30, running 4.6% above the 4-year median. The EIA survey pauses until October.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| vs 4-yr median | $3.539/gal | $3.383/gal | +4.6% |
| Year over year | $3.539/gal | $3.467/gal | +2.1% |
| vs 4 weeks ago | $3.539/gal | $3.479/gal | +1.7% |
| Week over week | $3.539/gal | $3.535/gal | +0.1% |
Previous weeks
Week of Aug 13, 2026
PADD 1B (Central Atlantic) residential propane closed the heating season at $3.539/gal on March 30, 2026, running 4.6% above the four-year median. The EIA price survey is off-season through September; reporting resumes in October.
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, tracked on Central Atlantic retail vs wholesale, 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.