Regional prices
Near normalPADD 3 (Gulf Coast) 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 3 (Gulf Coast)
- Unit
- $/gal
- Calculation
- Weekly survey, Oct-Mar heating season
- Last observation
- Oct 5, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly, Oct-Mar
Now $2.919/gal, 6.1% above the 5-yr median.
PADD 3 residential propane stands at $2.919/gal through October 5, unchanged from four weeks prior. The price sits 6.1% above the five-year median and 3.6% above year-ago levels.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $2.919/gal | n/a | n/a |
| vs 4 weeks ago | $2.919/gal | n/a | n/a |
| Year over year | $2.919/gal | $2.818/gal | +3.6% |
| vs 5-yr median | $2.919/gal | $2.752/gal | +6.1% |
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year over year | $1.923/gal | $1.973/gal | -2.5% |
| vs 5-yr median | $1.923/gal | $1.803/gal | +6.7% |
| State | Homes heating with propane (ACS 2020-2024) | Share of homes | Nearest surveyed state |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 36,271 | 2.0% | Texas |
| New Mexico | 56,945 | 6.8% | Texas |
Previous weeks
Week of Mar 30, 2026
PADD 3 residential propane was $2.929/gal in the Mar 30 survey, down 1.4% from a year ago and 0.6% below the 4-yr median. The wholesale level held at $0.991/gal.
An earlier week
The EIA price survey paused after March 30, when Gulf Coast residential propane read $2.929/gal, 0.6% below the 4-yr median. The survey resumes in October.
Week of Aug 13, 2026
PADD 3 residential propane settled at $2.929/gal at the close of heating season on March 30, running 0.6% below the 4-year median. The EIA weekly survey resumes in October.
About PADD 3 (Gulf Coast) propane price
The Gulf Coast, PADD 3, covers Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico and Texas, and is where most of the country's propane originates rather than where most of it is used. Mont Belvieu, the salt-cavern storage and export hub that prices US propane, sits inside this region, and refineries and gas processing plants across it produce the bulk of national supply. Retail demand here is mostly rural and small-town: homes on tanks away from the gas mains, poultry houses, and industrial and agricultural users, a different market entirely from the hub trading a few counties away.
Because supply barely has to travel to reach a Gulf Coast customer, this region's retail-minus-wholesale spread, in the table above, runs tighter than any other region on this site: less freight, fewer intermediate handoffs between the Mont Belvieu spot price and the delivery truck. When the Gulf Coast retail price still moves sharply here, it is more often a hub-price story than a delivery-cost story, the opposite of what drives a change on the East Coast.
New Mexico's inclusion is a reminder that PADD boundaries follow historical refining districts rather than modern supply geography: it sits closer to the Rockies than to Houston, but reports here alongside Texas and Louisiana all the same. Texas itself carries the large majority of this district's retail demand simply on population, spread across ranch country and small towns far from any gas main.
PADD 3 itself, the six states it covers and how its propane stocks compare with every other district's, is defined in what PADD 3 is.