Nunavummit Kiglisiniartiit, the Nunavut Bureau of Statistics, has posted a revised edition of its 2025 Nunavut Food Price Survey. The report says its 24-item basket averaged $197.95 across the territory after prices were collected at 45 stores in all 25 communities from March 17 to 21, 2025. The same basket cost $132.44 in Ottawa.

The Kitikmeot had the highest regional basket cost at $201.91, followed by Qikiqtaaluk at $199.44. Kivalliq had the lowest regional average at $192.49. At the community level, Clyde River had the highest listed basket cost, at $237.68, followed closely by Taloyoak at $237.47. Resolute had the lowest, at $165.83. Iqaluit’s basket was listed at $200.43, or $2.48 above the territorial average. ᓇᑭᓐᖔᖅᓯᒪᓂᖏᑦ↗

The government says this is the first fully verified and published food-price survey cycle since 2018. It describes the 2025 results as a new baseline for future comparisons, rather than a direct comparison with 2018 data. ᓇᑭᓐᖔᖅᓯᒪᓂᖏᑦ↗

The report provides comparable food-cost information for every Nunavut community after several years without a published territory-wide survey. It shows that food costs vary substantially between communities as well as between regions. The figures can help residents, community organizations and public decision-makers understand one part of the cost of living, but they do not show a household’s full grocery bill or current prices.

The Bureau says the 2025 survey establishes a baseline for future year-over-year tracking. No date for the next survey cycle is stated in the report or the current government notice.

The basket contains 24 selected food and household items, not all groceries a household buys. Prices were shelf prices, excluding sales and promotions, observed in March 2025. Items unavailable in a location were excluded from that location’s average. The revised report says it supersedes earlier circulated versions. The government’s notice was first released March 31, 2026 and was last updated Sept. 8, 2026.