Regional prices
Above normalPADD 1B (Central Atlantic) propane price
Residential and wholesale propane, EIA weekly survey (October-March)
Data through Oct 5, 2026 · source last checked Oct 7, 2026 · page revised Oct 12, 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 5, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly, Oct-Mar
Now $3.558/gal, 11.9% above the 5-yr median.
Residential propane at $3.558/gal through October 5 sits 11.9% above the 5-year median. Year over year the price is up 10.8% from $3.212/gal. Wholesale propane stands at $1.182/gal through the same date.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $3.558/gal | n/a | n/a |
| vs 4 weeks ago | $3.558/gal | n/a | n/a |
| Year over year | $3.558/gal | $3.212/gal | +10.8% |
| vs 5-yr median | $3.558/gal | $3.181/gal | +11.9% |
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year over year | $2.376/gal | $2.224/gal | +6.8% |
| vs 5-yr median | $2.376/gal | $2.075/gal | +14.5% |
| 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.
An earlier week
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.
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, 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.